BDS Australia news, events and actions
Balata FC Players to New PUMA CEO: Make the right choice. End Complicity in Israeli Apartheid.
Published by on BDS movement website by Players of Balata Youth Club / January 20, 2023 Palestinian football club Balata, whose player 16-year-old Seed Odeh was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers, calls on new PUMA CEO to end complicity in Israel's brutal apartheid...
MEDIA RELEASE – Palestinian academics call on RMIT to cut ties with Elbit
(This statement was co-ordinated by PACBI - the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel - https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi which is part of the Palestinian led BDS movement. ) Palestinian academics call on RMIT to cut ties with Elbit - 11...
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...
BDS Australia calls for review of Parliamentary Friends of IHRA
BDS Australia has called for a review of the newly established Parliamentary Friends of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. We have made a formal complaint and raised the alarm over this Friendship Group in the Australian Federal Parliament due to the fact...
Letter to RMIT re their partnership with the Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.
17th August, 2022 Dear Professor Cameron and Dr Andrews, We write regarding RMIT’s partnership with the Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. As you will be aware, students, staff and members of the Australian public have expressed their grave concerns about this...
Israeli Filmmakers Against Settler Film Fund: ‘Part of the Apartheid Mechanism’
Sept 1, 2022 Boycott of Israeli film fund by Israeli filmmakers In a significant development against Israel's use of culture to attempt to hide and normalise it's crimes against Palestinians, key Israeli film directors and creatives have called out Israel's apartheid,...
University of Melbourne Student Union stands with Palestine and supports BDS
The University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU) passed an historic motion on August 15, 2022 in solidarity with Palestinians and in support of BDS. BDS Australia believes this is a major turning point for BDS activism in Australian tertiary institutions and...
MEDIA RELEASE – Palestinian academics call on RMIT to cut ties with Elbit
(This statement was co-ordinated by PACBI - the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel - https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi which is part of the Palestinian led BDS movement. ) Palestinian academics call on RMIT to cut ties with Elbit - 11...
Balata FC Players to New PUMA CEO: Make the right choice. End Complicity in Israeli Apartheid.
Published by on BDS movement website by Players of Balata Youth Club / January 20, 2023 Palestinian football club Balata, whose player 16-year-old Seed Odeh was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers, calls on new PUMA CEO to end complicity in Israel's brutal apartheid...
Letter from the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) to RMIT re Elbit collaboration
Letter from the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) to RMIT re Elbit collaboration (This statement was co-ordinated by PACBI - the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel ...
RMIT University partners with Israeli weapons manufacturer
BDS Australia condemns Melbourne's RMIT University partnering with the Israeli arms company, Elbit Systems Elbit Systems of Australia’s (ELSA) Centre of Excellence has teamed up with RMIT University and the Victorian Government to develop drone technology for civilian...
Letter of solidarity to Melbourne University Student Union
This is BDS Australia's response to the Melbourne University Student Union Motion passed recently in support of BDS as a non-violent means to pressure Israel to end its violations of Palestinian human rights. (See below for the motion). We are writing to congratulate...
Civil society organisations welcome the Future Fund’s exclusion of Elbit Systems, and call on the Federal and Victorian Governments to drop Elbit or risk complicity in serious violations of international law
15 March 2022 | For immediate release Civil society organisations working for human rights for Palestinians and others welcome the news of Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund’s exclusion of Israeli arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems Limited from...
Let’s Push PUMA Over to the Right Side of History. Global Day of Action, February 12
BDS Australia is joining groups around the world for the Global Day of Action on February 12 and regular rolling protests as we step up pressure on PUMA to ends its partnership with Israeli apartheid. PUMA’s continued support for Israeli apartheid puts it squarely on...
Amnesty International declares Israel guilty of apartheid
The declaration by Amnesty International that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, in its treatment of Palestinians, must lead to enforcement action by the international community, BDS Australia said today. The AI report, which echoes previous findings by...
BDS Alert: Join the global days of action 28, 29, 30 January 2022
The BDS Palestine National Committee and the Palestinian Stop the Wall campaign are calling for global mobilization in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their steadfast resistance against Israel’s forced displacement in Jerusalem’s neighborhoods...
A landslide of support for Sydney Festival boycott Jan 18, 2022
Photo credit: Aman Kapoor The Sydney Festival boycott over funding from Israel is now Australia’s largest and most successful boycott campaign since the anti-apartheid movement against South African apartheid and the Green bans of the 1970s, according to BDS...
Israeli Government sponsorship of the Sydney Festival 2022
Photo/Graceenee TAKE ACTION Tell Sydney Festival 2022 not to take money from apartheid Israel Sign the petition here BDS Australia has written to the Sydney Festival and to the Sydney Dance Company regarding their acceptance of sponsorship by the Israeli government....
