BDS Australia news, events and actions
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...
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...
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....
We’re making Puma’s CEO nervous. Join the Boycott Puma Day of Action, September 18
August 17, 2021 / By Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) As Palestinians continue to struggle against Israel’s illegal land grabs, and companies like Ben & Jerry’s pledge to end involvement in illegal...
Australian government defense contracts with Israel exposed
Australia's defense contracts with Israel have been exposed in this article 'Defence hides Australia’s weapon sales to Israel amid war crimes investigation into Palestine' published by Michael West Media and written by Michelle Fahey. The Defence Department...
BDS Australia calls on Victorian Premier to end support for Elbit
In July 2021 BDS Australia wrote to the Premier of the Victorian government, Daniel Andrews calling on him to reconsider its support for the Israeli arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems. We will post any response we receive regarding this letter. The Hon. Daniel...
Sanction Israel petition
Update: This petition was signed by 21,991 Australians in the limited time it was online (4 weeks) and was presented to the Australian Federal parliament in August 2021. The then Foreign Minister, Senator Marise Payne responded to this petition and her letter is here...
UTS does not see Israel’s human rights violations as an issue
May 26, 2021 BDS Australia wrote to the UTS Vice Chancellor,Professor Attila Brungs and the Vice President (Advancement), Celia Hurley about the UTS series of webinars hosted by the Israeli Technion university and other partnerships UTS has with this institution - see...
ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK
2021 Callout Racism, discrimination, xenophobia, and inequality continue to grow around the world. In recent months, we have seen how people in the Global South and people of color, political prisoners, unhoused people, migrants, and refugees, among many others, have...
