BDS Movement
Artists repeat boycott call as Israel takes stage during Eurovision 2026

Thousands of artists called for Eurovision boycott ahead of final night, protesting Israel’s participation and artwashing of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Public broadcasters quit Eurovision 2026 over participation of Israel

Broadcasters from at least four countries plan to exit Eurovision 2026 after the European Broadcasting Union decided to allow Israel to compete.

Europe’s Palestine solidarity movement strengthens call to boycott Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva

Pressure is mounting on local governments and public pharmacies to replace Teva products with alternatives not complicit in Israel’s occupation and genocide.

Indian protestors wave the Palestinian flag South Asia mobilizes in solidarity with Palestine, marking two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Protesters questioned Donald Trump’s Gaza plan, claiming it is yet another attempt by the West to protect and prolong the Israeli occupation and demanded their respective governments! not endorse it.

BDS protest Morocco Protestors in Rabat condemn multinational retailer for links with firms complicit in Israeli war crimes 

BDS Morocco and other progressive forces held a protest outside French retail multinational Carrefour over its franchising deal with Israeli companies involved in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories

Over 200 academics from across Latin America call for boycott of Israel 

Calling Israel an apartheid state, academics from over 15 countries in the Latin American region demanded that their governments and institutions end all collaboration with the government and institutions of Israel

France announces troop withdrawal from Mali after nearly a decade and other stories

Today we look at the withdrawal of French troops from Mali after 9 years, a report on Dutch colonial violence during Indonesia’s independence war, and more

South Africa: Unions, Palestine solidarity groups escalate demand to nationalize Clover

On January 27, pickets and rallies were held in several cities of South Africa in support of the workers’ demand to nationalize the dairy company Clover

Global mobilizations mark two months of the strike at South Africa’s dairy giant

Unions and Palestinian solidarity organizations have escalated actions calling for the South African government to disinvest from Clover the Milco consortium, which is majority-owned by an Israeli company operating in occupied territories of Palestine.

Over 70 Jewish groups and individuals endorse calls to boycott Sydney festival over Israeli funding

Several artists and performers have pulled out of their scheduled events at the acclaimed Sydney festival citing Israeli sponsorship 

Best-selling Irish writer Sally Rooney joins BDS campaign

Rooney rejected an Israeli publisher’s offer to release a Hebrew version of her book. The publishing house in question, Modan, is well known for its ties to the Israel military

Israeli academic institutions Academics ask EU to stop funding Israeli universities complicit in violations of international law

Signatories to the letter have urged the EU to extend its rules prohibiting granting of research funds to Israeli institutions in the occupied Palestinian territories to include those inside the state of Israel, calling them equally complicit “in Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights”