World Water Day: Palestine calls to end complicity with Israeli water apartheid

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As part of the calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions on Israel, Palestinian organizations and municipalities urge governments and public institutions to end cooperation with the Israeli state-owned water company Mekorot. This year, movements in Bahia, in the northeast of Brazil, have joined in the struggle against these dirty deals demanding their state water companies end a cooperation agreement signed with Mekorot in 2013.

Palestinian Women’s Call for Worldwide Women’s Endorsement of BDS

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“Support BDS, and Palestine will be free!” – Angela Davis

On the occasion of Palestinian women’s celebration of 8^th of March, the International Women’s Day, we the undersigned, Palestinian women organizations, centers and groups, call upon all women and feminists of the world, as well as women’s organizations and collectives, to endorse the BDS Call issued by Palestinian civil society in 2005 and join to the BDS movement to support our struggle for freedom, justice and equality.

From Canada: Letter of support for Palestinian Popular Resistance

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December 2015. Boycott Israeli Apartheid Now!

In response to Israel’s ongoing campaign of violence and aggression, a new wave of Palestinian resistance has erupted. We, the undersigned, affirm our solidarity with this mass popular resistance, in all its creativity, vibrancy, and courage. We are inspired by the new generation of fearless Palestinian youth, marching in the footsteps of previous generations, as it asserts its right to self-determination and freedom from settler colonialism and apartheid.

Links that Kill: International military cooperation with Israel.

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Israeli arms exports take dramatic hit amid growing boycott campaign

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has been running highly visible campaigns against military trade with Israel that have seen 12 banks and pension funds exclude Israeli arms company Elbit Systems from their investment portfolio. Israeli owned arms factories have been blockaded, and a growing number of political parties and trade unions have called for an end to military ties with Israel.

The governments of Norway and Turkey have both announced military embargo policies against Israel in recent years.

Mahmoud Nawajaa, general coordinator with the Palestinian BDS National Committee, the largest Palestinian civil society coalition that leads the BDS movement, said:

“Israeli military companies market their products on the basis of their successful use in Israel’s massacres of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, yet it now seems that growing public awareness of and opposition to Israel’s war crimes are starting to hit Israel’s military exports.”

Also don't miss the new briefing published by the BDS Movement on military cooperation and trade of Israeli weapons, tools of repression against the ongoing Palestinian protests. The military trade is at the heart of Israeli oppression: find out more on the military companies and the complicit international institutions, and on the campaigns that work against these and the military aid to Israel.

Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Resistance

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The BNC have published two new documents, take a moment to read and share them within your network!

1. Q&A on Palestinian popular resistance
http://www.bdsmovement.net/2015/qa-palestinian-popular-resistance-13440

A new resource to help media, activists and supporters of the Palestinian struggle get to grips with the ongoing developments in Palestine.

2. Call out: Turning the tide against Israel’s criminal repression

http://www.bdsmovement.net/2015/call-out-turning-the-tide-13444
Solidarity with the Palestinian popular resistance! Cut all military ties with Israel!

A BNC statement welcoming the ongoing #SolidarityWaveBDS mobilisations and urging continued action, particularly on military embargo.

#SolidarityWaveBDS

Briefing: New EU funding to Elbit - Securing apartheid in Palestine and beyond

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This briefing marks another step in the effort to stop the EU's funding to Israeli military and security companies. It denounces the financial assistance awarded within the framwork of the Horizon2020 research and development funding scheme of the EU to Elbit Systems and other Israeli military companies through FLYSEC, an airport security project.

Download the new briefing here!

Documentation: EU Funding For Elbit Systems

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Stop the Wall collects here the relevant documentation - including briefings, letters, parliamentary questions and answers from the EU - for the campaign "Stop Supporting Israeli Apartheid - EU Funding For Elbit Systems". The initiative, developed in cooperation with the BNC and ECCP, aims to stop funding to Elbit Systems and other Israeli companies involved in the military-industrial-scientific complex of Israel, a country that systematically commits war crimes and is in ongoing violation of the basic norms of international law and human rights.

Such funding violates not only the growing call for a military embargo on Israel but as well the EU’s obligations under international law.

One year after the Gaza massacre: UK against Arms Trade with Israel

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In an open letter to the Guardian leading intellectuals and artists have called for an arms embargo on Israel: "We call upon the UK government to stop arming Israel and extend all our support to the protesters who are using their voices and efforts towards ending the arms trade. All charges against the 19 people arrested should be dropped as the real crime is producing and exporting deadly weapons that destroy the livelihoods of an entire nation. We collectively demand an immediate arms embargo on Israel. We demand the right to allow the Palestinian populace to live."

Stop Corporate Impunity: 8 Proposals for a legally binding treaty on TNCs

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The 8 PROPOSALS FOR THE NEW LEGALLY BINDING INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS (TNCs) AND HUMAN RIGHTS

are the written contribution of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity, of which Stop the Wall Campaign is part, to the first session of the intergovernmental working group mandated with the elaboration of an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises with respect to human rights.

This submission is part of the Peoples Mobilizations on the First Meeting of Stated on obligations to TNCs on Human Rights, 6-10 july 2015. Please see the full program here.

UK Campaigners to Close Elbit Systems Factory on Gaza War Anniversary

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London Palestine Action, a Palestinian solidarity network based in London that thrives on creative action against Israeli apartheid, particularly through the usage of BDS campaigns, has organized a peaceful protest to be held on the 6th of July, 2015 at the Elbit factory in Shenstone near Birmingham.

Stop Mekorot! - Video message from Palestine to Rome

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The Italian Coalition Against the Agreement with Mekorot (No Mekorot) published a video appeal from Palestine to Rome's mayor against the agreement between the city's public water company Acea and Mekorot. The videos were collected during a delegation of the Italian water movements last fall. In English, with some Arabic, and Italian subtitles. Click here or on the image on the left to access the video.

India: Call to oppose increasing military and trade ties with Israel

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Narendra Modi is all set to be the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel.

This is what this “first” really means: closer military and trade ties with Israel.

Closer military ties with Israel make India complicit in Israel’s war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories. The Israeli military industry, the largest industry in the country and perhaps the main prop of the national economy, is fully a part of the Israeli war machine that occupies Palestinian lands, makes Gaza an open air prison, and imposes apartheid policies on Palestinians.

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- G4S has lost contracts worth millions of dollars in more than a dozen countries following BDS campaigns protesting its role in Israeli prisons, settlements and checkpoints

- Campaign against G4S to remain “high BDS priority” until sale is finalized

- BDS to continue supporting boycotts against G4S over mass incarceration globally

“Support BDS, and Palestine will be free!” – Angela Davis

December 2015. Boycott Israeli Apartheid Now!

BDS Norway staged an Intifada against the weapon producer Nammo

The BNC have published two new documents, take a moment to read and share them within your network!

PROTESTERS have staged a demonstration at Manston airport over Broadstairs firm Instro Precision's proposed move to the site.

Anti-arms campaigners claim the company is a manufacturer of unmanned drones used in Israel's massacre of Gazans in summer 2014.

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Such funding violates not only the growing call for a military embargo on Israel but as well the EU’s obligations under international law.

1.10.2015 Israeli police continue their violent crackdown on Palestinians protesting at Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The British private security firm G4S has contracts equipping and providing services to the Israeli police and prisons, making G4S complicit in this violence.

From the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine:

73 members of the European Parliament issued a letter to European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini and Jan Robert Smits – Director-General of DG Research and Innovation concerning EU support to Israeli military companies trough Horizon2020.

The 8 PROPOSALS FOR THE NEW LEGALLY BINDING INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS (TNCs) AND HUMAN RIGHTS

This submission is part of the Peoples Mobilizations on the First Meeting of Stated on obligations to TNCs on Human Rights, 6-10 july 2015. Please see the full program here.

BDS Switzerland condemns the Swiss approval to the purchase of Israeli drones amidst significant opposition inside and outside parliament.

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