The BDS movement established an international campaign to exert pressure on Israel through economic, academic and cultural approaches. The BDS Israel movement calls for "various forms of boycott of Israel until it fulfills its obligations under international law." The movement was initiated at the United Nations Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa in 2001.
Hamas, Hezbollah, and several other groups are listed as terrorist organizations, and it is prohibited to display their symbols for purposes such as incitement.
A referendum calling for Yale University to disclose and divest from defense firms investments, including those connected to the state of Israel, passed last Monday.
The Cinemamed Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival announced last Wednesday that it would not be screening Yolande Zauberman's The Belle from Gaza.
Spanish Podemos Party general secretary Ione Belarra attacked Israel's bombardment of Syrian military assets remnant from the Assad regime as genocide.
Two men and two women between the ages of 20 and 34 were arrested on suspicion of the November 1 aggravated burglary by the Palestine Action vandalism activist group.
Around a hundred activists were joined by at least two NDP politicians at the Canadian parliament protest.
Activists from Palestine Action targeted an Israeli-linked drone factory in the UK for the third time this week, causing damage through vandalism and blockades.
Mayor Jacob Frey, who is Jewish, said on social media Tuesday night that the group should cancel the seminar with Herzallah, who has called Jewish people “enemy No. 1.”
The Creative Community for Peace letter comes during a year when antisemitism is on the rise worldwide and Israeli and Jewish writers have been the targets of boycott calls.
Among the signatories are such well-known writers as Sally Rooney, Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy, and Percival Everett.
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