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  1. The Academic Boycott Debate
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    An excellent summary and commentary on a debate at Ryerson University about whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott because of its human rights violations.
  2. Academic Boycott of South Africa
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  3. Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
  4. BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions 
    The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    The case for a rights-based BDS campaign against Israeli occupation and apartheid.
  5. The BDS movement is about justice for Palestine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The University of Ottawa Israeli Awareness Committee (IAC) blocked a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolution presented by the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO). The BDS movement is a call to action from Palestinians seeking justice and equality, while the IAC is a pro-Israel lobby group which works with the Israeli Embassy and others to promote the Israeli government to students.
  6. A BDS Movement That Works
    Against The Current vol. 161

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    In 2005, a call was issued for global nonviolent resistance to occupation through acts of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.They had three goals: an end to occupation and return to the pre-1967 Green Line, equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and recognition of the Palestinian right of return.
  7. BDS: Repression and Progress
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Short piece about recent BDS actions and attempts to censor pro-Palestinian protest.
  8. BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism
    Book Review

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Review of two books about pro-Palestinian political activism known as BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.) Contains detailed discussion of history and current events covered in the books.
  9. Boycott is a right and a duty
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    Israel's efforts to demonize the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) threaten a venerable form of nonviolent resistance. These efforts push for the censoring of Palestinian voices and those of our allies, undermining free speech rights and academic freedom while falsely conflating criticism of the State of Israel with anti-Jewish bigotry.
  10. Boycott the state, not just the settlements
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    West Bank settlements would not be viable without government aid, so boycotts should target the Israeli state as well.
  11. California Leads the Way in the "Block the Boat" Movement
    Fighting the Occupation on the West Coast

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In organizing theory, activists often emphasize the importance of formulating what they call an "escalation plan." When pushing for social change, they explain, it is important that one's methods of exerting pressure on power slowly grow in strength, not remain stagnant. Block the Boat is the next step in the escalation plan of US Palestinian solidarity activists. The idea of Block the Boat is quite simple: Hundreds of activists organize a protest in a local dock and prevent Israeli ships from unloading cargo.
  12. Chomsky clarifies position on the cultural boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Prof. Noam Chomsky makes the essential point: the presence of international artists in Israel is used by the government to cover up its occupation and human rights abuses.
  13. A Concerted Effort From Europe Against Israeli Produce Exporter Agrexco
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant.
  14. Condemnation Grows for Bipartisan Attack on Free Speech Rights of BDS Supporters
    Lawmakers urged to reject bill that would punish Americans for supporting boycotts of Israel

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A pair of bipartisan bills targeting boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements appear to have widespread support in Congress, to the dismay of civil rights advocates who say the proposals are an attack on free speech.
  15. Disinvestment from South Africa
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  16. Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, academic and media platforms was the pressing need to refocus the discussion on Palestine on the struggle, aspirations and history of the Palestinian people. But, interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I also learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world.
  17. Global BDS Against Israel Is Working
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Israel's ruling elite is increasingly concerned about the international movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions, but they are unwilling to address the human rights abuses that brought the movement into existence.
  18. The Growing Boycott of Israel
    A Force for Good

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    To join the boycott is good for the world's future in general. It is certainly good for the Palestinians, and yes, it is good for the Jews too.
  19. "If not now, when?" On BDS and 'singling out' Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    This is an edited version of a letter I've sent to a relative in the US who's been trying to figure out the BDS issue in the wake of the recent onslaught against the American Studies Association's decision to support the academic boycott.
  20. In Defense of Divestment
    Against The Current vol. 114

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    As an Israeli citizen and former tank gunner in the Israeli army, I feel the need to explain why I, along with many other Jews, support divestment from Israel. We are asking the city of Somerville, as well as other cities and civic institutions, to divest from companies involved in selling arms, bulldozers and military technologies that are used by the Israeli army to commit war crimes against Palestinians.
  21. Israel Steps up Dirty Tricks Against Boycott Leaders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The current obsession with the challnege posed by BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) reflects a changing political environment for Israel.
  22. Israeli exports hit hard by Palestinian boycott, World Bank says
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has exacted a major cost on Israel's exports to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Even though the World Bank's report has modestly recognized so, they have failed to address any trace of occupation.
  23. Making a Killing
    The Canada-Israel Military-Industrial Partnership

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Canadian companies supply many essential components to Israel's war machine. This pamphlet provides information on the arms trade that will help to strengthen the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
  24. The nightmare hidden within liberal Zionism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Since the American Studies Association (ASA) announced this month that its members had voted overwhelmingly to endorse the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, the predictable outpouring of furious responses has been proliferating.
  25. On Resistance: BDS and Israel's Declining Support Among Diaspora Jews
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Like its predecessor movement decades ago in South Africa, assessing the success of BDS against Israel today necessarily rubs up against the tension between Israeli Hasbara (propaganda) and its reality as an effective organizing tool against it throughout the world.
  26. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
    Massacres and Morality

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
  27. Our Way to Fight 
    Peace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people to action, and the escalating risks they face in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The title is borrowed from a young Palestinian who makes and teaches film in the Jenin refugee camp. "This is my way to fight," he said. Like other people featured in the book, he is a peace activist. Like them he is also, in his own way, a freedom fighter. If a just peace can grow in this beautiful, hard land, the seeds for it will have been planted by people like these.
  28. Palestinian Economic Boycott Hits Israeli Settlers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Israeli settlers are beginning to feel the bite of an economic boycott campaign launched by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against goods produced in the illegal Israeli settlements dotting the occupied West Bank.
  29. Palestinians torn over contact with Israelis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A Palestinian university’s decision to bar from its campus an Israeli journalist and outspoken critic of the occupation has exposed a growing rift among Palestinian activists about the merits of contact with Jewish Israelis.
  30. The Picket of the Zim Piraeus
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
  31. Profiting from Gaza Children's Agony
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The shocking decision by the government-owned New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) to NOT divest from Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL), manufacturer of white phosphorus, blatantly violates the NZSF Responsibilities and Standards for Human Rights.
  32. Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
  33. Resolutions Advocating a Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The Modern Language Association (MLA) Delegate Assembly voted in Philadelphia on two resolutions, for and against, of an academic boycott of Israel.
  34. Sanctioning Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A useful guide to the background of apartheid and understanding current developments, particularly the success of the mass democratic movement in weakening racist policy.
  35. Sporting Boycott of South Africa
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  36. Statement by Jewish Activists and Organizations active in BDS against Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A Jewish response to the February 2011 Statement of Jewish Zionist Organizations on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
  37. To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country's apartheid system. If international civil society is serious about urgently ending Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, including ending the occupation, then suspension of SWIFT transactions to and from Israeli banks offers an instrument to help bring about a peaceful resolution of an intractable conflict.
  38. To the family of the one thousandth victim of Israel's genocidal slaughter in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    This is 2014 — the destruction of Gaza is well documented. This is not 1948 when Palestinians had to struggle hard to tell their story of horror; so many of the crimes Zionist committed then where hidden and never came to light, even until today. So my first and simple pledge is to record, inform and insist on the truth. But surely this is not enough. I pledge to continue the effort to boycott a state that commits such crimes.
  39. Vancouverites Stage Picket Against Israeli Shipping Company
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Dozens of activists set up an information picket at Deltaport on August 24, designed to slow the transport of containers belonging to the Israeli shipping company Zim.
  40. We Blocked the Boat: Oakland 2014
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2014
    Blocking Israel's ship from unloading in Oakland, California.
  41. Why Boycott Aroma?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2011
    Our boycott call is part of a larger movement by Palestinian civil society to find non-violent means to end the occupation and apartheid.
  42. Why Is BDS A Moral Duty Today?
    A Response To Bernard-Henri Levy

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The reality of the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.

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