Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions is a nonviolent Palestinian-led movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel. Its stated objective is to pressure Israel to meet w
A BDS demonstration, with anti-BDS protesters nearer the camera, outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, April 2017
Area C (blue), the part of the West Bank under full Israeli control, in 2011
Norman Finkelstein has criticized BDS's position on the Palestinian refugees.
BDS protest in Melbourne, Australia, against Israel's 2007–present Gaza blockade and 2010 attack on a humanitarian flotilla, June 2010
Anti-BDS laws are legislation that retaliate against those that engage in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. With regard to the Arab–Israeli conflict, many supporters of the State of Isra
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
…and has encouraged legal measures against the movement in other countries. Multiple countries, as well as a majority of U.S. states, have passed laws aimed at countering BDS. Many authors trace BDS's origins to the NGO Forum at the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in South Africa (Durban I). According to the Socialist…
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