BDS Australia news, events and actions
Major European pension funds and sovereign wealth funds continue to divest from Israeli investments
Danish and Norwegian pension and sovereign wealth funds continue to pull out many millions of euros of investments in Israeli banks and bank bonds due to increased concern about Israel's human rights violations. Pension Denmark, one of the biggest pension funds in...
BDS Victory – PUMA forced to drop sponsorship of Israeli Football Association
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding part of the BDS movement, welcomes the news that PUMA won’t be renewing its contract with the Israel Football Association (IFA). PUMA has been the target of a...
Gaza genocide – national BDS calls and actions – Nov 2023
GAZA GENOCIDE - NATIONAL BDS CALLS AND ACTIONS - NOV 2023 BDS actions on the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People After 7 weeks of Israel’s hideous war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza we have witnessed the utter failure of governments and...
News alert: ACT government considering divesting from companies operating in the illegal Israeli settlements
The ACT territory government moved a hugely significant motion in February 2024 which may result in the government divesting from a number of companies which are profiting from operating in the illegal Israeli settlements. Mr Andrew Braddock (Greens) moved a motion in...
Australian arms companies and Israel’s human rights violations
AUSTRALIAN ARMS COMPANIES AND ISRAEL'S WAR CRIMES Many Australian companies supply weapons components for arms and military hardware used by Israel against Palestinians. According to international law, it is illegal to knowingly allow weapons to go to a country or...
Boycott Zim Shipping resolution – Port Botany rally Nov 11, 2023
This Resolution was resoundingly passed at the November 11, Port Botany protest in Sydney. For generations, Palestinians have been crushed by apartheid Israel and have courageously resisted. Now they are undergoing a genocidal assault in Gaza. We will not stand by in...
Major European pension funds and sovereign wealth funds continue to divest from Israeli investments
Danish and Norwegian pension and sovereign wealth funds continue to pull out many millions of euros of investments in Israeli banks and bank bonds due to increased concern about Israel's human rights violations. Pension Denmark, one of the biggest pension funds in...
BDS Victory – PUMA forced to drop sponsorship of Israeli Football Association
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding part of the BDS movement, welcomes the news that PUMA won’t be renewing its contract with the Israel Football Association (IFA). PUMA has been the target of a...
Gaza genocide – national BDS calls and actions – Nov 2023
GAZA GENOCIDE - NATIONAL BDS CALLS AND ACTIONS - NOV 2023 BDS actions on the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People After 7 weeks of Israel’s hideous war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza we have witnessed the utter failure of governments and...
BDS VICTORY – RMIT DUMPS ELBIT
MEDIA RELEASE 7 November 2023 - for immediate release ACTIVISTS CLAIM VICTORY AS RMIT ENDS ELBIT PARTNERSHIPActivists are celebrating the announcement by RMIT that it has ceased its research partnership with Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems, which...
BOYCOTT UPDATE
November 2, 2023 There is no doubt that many global companies, as part of the global structure of the economy (racial capitalism), are complicit in the genocidal war waged by Israel today against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, and some of these companies are...
ARTISTS FOR PALESTINE UK
Renowned actors Tilda Swinton, Charles Dance, Steve Coogan, Miriam Margolyes, Peter Mullan, Maxine Peake and Khalid Abdalla are among more than two thousand people from across the arts who have signed a letter saying that: “Our governments are not only tolerating war crimes but aiding and abetting them.”
GAZA UNDER SIEGE
STATEMENT BY BDS AUSTRALIA October 12, 2023 We mourn the loss of Palestinian and Israeli lives. We call for peace with justice and an end to Israel’s occupation, apartheid and ongoing genocide; We call on the Australian government to condemn Israeli war...
Check your Superfund
Oppose apartheid? Support justice for Palestinians?Don’t fund your retirement on the dispossession of Palestinians.Ask your superfund if they invest in companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements. Send your super fund a letter and ask the question and bring...
Expose Israeli Apartheid and Greenwashing
August 31, 2023 / Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) Palestine is a climate justice issue. All over the world, grassroots groups are committed to the rights of indigenous people to land and raw materials, to sustainability, against the...
Sydney University's Students Representative Council backs BDS After supporting justice for Palestinians for many years, the University of Sydney SRC has reaffirmed its solidarity with its latest vote on active solidarity to Palestine and support for BDS. This stand...
How Israel’s occupation has gone global: Antony Loewenstein presents ‘The Palestine Laboratory’
How Israel's occupation has gone global: Antony Loewenstein presents 'The Palestine Laboratory' “From Israeli spyware ending up on the phones of activists in Mexico to Israeli drones being used by the EU to “monitor” refugees struggling and often drowning in the...
AUSTRALIAN GREENS RESOLUTION: JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL
JUNE 2023 The state of Israel continues to deny the right of self-determination to Palestinians and continues todispossess them of their land. We aim to rectify this injustice in ways that will allow both Palestiniansand Israelis to live in peace, security and...
TAKE ACTION – #BoycottPuma Send a Message to the CEO
PUMA's AGM is May 24th - Message the CEO and shareholders now BDS Australia Joins the international #BoycottPuma campaign now in the week before Puma's AGM to increase our pressure on Puma to end its complicity with Israeli apartheid and end all sponsorship of Israeli...
