BDS Australia news, events and actions
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 it to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 it to...
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...
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...
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...
