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