The list of supporters of the BDS movement includes those who have either voiced support for the BDS movement or for comprehensive boycotts against Israel. The list does not include people who support boycotting products from Israeli settlements but not from Israel. The year column denotes the year they most recently professed support for such a boycott.
I am making it clear that it is about how BDS should be and not about how it is now. I meant that FOR ME, BDS is about ending the Zionist occupation of Palestine completely.
I support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign because, especially in our instantly connected world, an injustice committed against one, or against one group of people, is an injustice against all, against every one of us; a collective injury.
Chile's new president, Gabriel Boric, supports BDS and has promised to take an aggressive stance in defense of Palestinian human rights.
"Cori Bush has always been sympathetic to the BDS movement, and she stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people just as they have stood in solidarity with Black Americans fighting for their own lives," her campaign said in a statement on Saturday.
I said, "if I'm asked a question about what I think about BDS for example, I'm not going to pretend that that's somebody I'm not. I'm going to say, on a personal level I support BDS." Its because I believe in justice for the Palestinian people, and I believe in justice for Arabs and Jews in the region.
He has not announced his decision publicly, but a statement published by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine with Hawking's approval described it as "his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there".
If you want to vote for BDS on November 4th, vote Green! Howie Hawkins and I are the only candidates running for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New York who have pledged to divest the state of New York from Israel's murderous occupation of Palestine.
Israel's legal system rests on the inequality of Jewish and non-Jewish citizens; its childrenare regularlytaught that Arab lives are worth less than Jewish lives; its military interfereswith Palestinians' access to university education, freedom of assembly, and the right to free speech; ... The hypocrisy of those who consider these to be democratic practices needs to be exposed.An academic andcultural boycott seems to me to be the way to do this.
Last week, American folk music legend Pete Seeger officially joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign - an international movement to pressure and sanction Israel through economic means.
Smith has previously spoken in support of the BDS – boycott, divestment and sanctions – movement for Palestinian rights, including during his trip to Stockholm, Sweden, last December to pick up his Nobel Prize.
Walker, a pro-Palestinian, Black Jewish woman and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement,
Cornel West, a Sanders appointee, expressed concern that "for too long, the Democratic Party has been beholden to Aipac" — the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the bipartisan pro-Israel lobbying group — which "didn't take seriously the humanity of Palestinian brothers and sisters." He added that the party was now at a "turning point," which was why he supports the B.D.S.
I briefly outline the proposed BDS (Boycott Divestment & Sanctions) legislation that is currently moving through the Irish parliament, a proposal designed to specifically target Israeli settlements. Does she support BDS in relation to all of Israel? Her answer in an emphatic, "Of course."