Today marks 19 years since the historic call from the largest Palestinian coalition to boycott, divest from, and impose sanctions on Israel’s regime of military occupation, settler-colonialism, apartheid, and now genocide. Over the last 19 years, the BDS movement has built a massive network worldwide, supported by trade unions, farmers’ coalitions, as well as racial, social, gender and climate justice movements, together representing tens of millions. It has had a large impact on isolating apartheid Israel, including by making large multinationals, like G4S, Veolia, Orange, HP, PUMA, and others totally or partially end their complicity in its crimes against Indigenous Palestinians.
On this anniversary, we acknowledge the immense loss, suffering, and anger that continue to grow as a result of Israel's genocidal crimes against Palestinians over the past 9 months. Since the beginning of Israel’s genocide on 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, tens of thousands of Palestinians, over 17,000 of whom children, have been murdered, with unknown thousands trapped beneath the rubble, and many held captive in Israeli torture camps. According to the UN, 1.9 million Palestinians in Gaza have been internally displaced since October 2023. All Palestinians in Gaza, according to UN experts, are facing induced famine.
As painful and devastating as all this is, the failure of Israel’s live-streamed genocide to force Palestinians to surrender is a sign that the foundations of its 76-year-old regime of settler-colonial oppression are shaking and we are closer to liberation. With miraculous steadfastness and resistance, the Palestinian people is insisting on justice, liberation, and our inalienable rights.
The impact of the BDS movement in fighting state, corporate and institutional complicity with apartheid Israel has grown immensely in these times of genocide, beginning to influence policy in some states. (more...)
BDS impacts in times of genocide
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