The Palestinian-led global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights, and particularly its affiliate in France, @Campagnebds, warmly congratulate French author Annie Ernaux for winning the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature 2022.
We join many in celebrating this distinguished recognition of Ernaux’s literary creativity and prowess also because of her principled commitment to fighting oppression globally, including her support for the nonviolent struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality.
Ernaux’s courageous endorsement of impactful measures to hold accountable Israel’s apartheid regime and its complicit cultural institutions stands out.
It is a strong indicator of her ethical consistency in understanding and exercising the responsibility of intellectuals towards ending complicity in oppression.
She embodies the famous principle articulated by the late South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1984: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Alfred Nobel notably said that the Nobel Prize for Literature should reward a work rendering service to humanity and “which demonstrates a powerful ideal.” Annie Ernaux’s literary and social justice work perfectly fit the bill.
1) Our rights are inherent, inviolable, and non-negotiable. 2) The Israeli-US plan is coercive, colonial, and patently illegal. 3) International BDS pressure is working and the era of lawful sanctions has begun. 4) What Palestinians want from the global solidarity movement. 5) Urgent solidarity actions now to disrupt complicity: Peacefully #DisruptComplicity by ⬇️
Even if a ceasefire takes hold, the genocide, the famine, the repercussions of the annihilation of Gaza will not end. Israel and the US must be compelled to enact it, and they and other culprits must be held accountable for the genocide.
Together, we can and must disrupt all complicity in Israel’s “final solution” for the Indigenous people of Palestine. Together we can dismantle Israeli apartheid just as South African apartheid was dismantled. Anything less would be a failure of humanity.
At the end of August 2025, the Norwegian Sovereign Fund, the largest in the world, announced it divested from 5 Israeli banks and from Caterpillar, where the fund’s major individual share was almost $2 billion (US).
The fund is not off the hook, though, as is still invested in several complicit Israeli companies and remains a major shareholder of corporations, like Microsoft, RTX and Chevron, that are deeply implicated in Israel’s genocide, apartheid, and illegal military occupation.
Israel attacks the Global Sumud Flotilla, continues to starve Palestinians in Gaza.
Escalate peaceful disruptive action now.
#DisruptComplicity
Israel has begun its violent attack on peaceful activists from tens of states on the Sumud Flotilla trying to deliver aid to 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza surviving and resisting Israel’s genocide.
#DisruptComplicity Now! The BDS movement calls for escalating peaceful actions against complicit states, corporations and institutions. Let’s end genocidal Israel’s total impunity.
Lawful targeted sanctions are the most effective tool to stop Israel's genocide and undermine its regime of apartheid.
As apartheid Israel admits its growing isolation, the time is now to expel it from the UN and all international fora of sports, culture, and more, as apartheid South Africa was.
People power stops Italy’s energy giant and genocide-profiteer Eni from exporting oil to Israel!
Yesterday morning, the “No Harbour for Genocide” campaign uncovered that Italian fuel, likely jet fuel, was to be loaded on the vessel Seasalvia (IMO: 9629550) at the port of Taranto, Italy, at 21:30 the same day, in order to be shipped to Israel.
Hours later, dockworkers, trade unions USB and COBAS, as well as Palestine solidarity activists in Taranto were at the port to block it.
This continues the historic mobilization across Italy, which in a powerful strike for Palestine on Monday under the slogan #BlocchiamoTutto (Shut it Down) have brought public transport, train stations, ports and highways to a standstill.
Already by 6pm, Eni had sent an official communication that the Seasalvia would not be entering the port.
The Seasalvia is still in the gulf of Taranto. The alert continues.
As 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza endure and resist Israel’s forced starvation in the midst of its ongoing genocide, a ship flying the flag of Portugal and carrying humanitarian aid was reportedly bombed by military drones in Tunisian waters. Thankfully everyone on board has been confirmed safe. Logically, all fingers point to Israel, which is today among the world’s most dangerous rogue states.
The Palestinian-led BDS movement:
- Calls for escalating BDS pressure to isolate apartheid Israel, imposing targeted sanctions on it.
- Denounces complicit governments that have enabled Israel’s genocide.
- Calls for pressure on Tunisian authorities to investigate and seek proper accountability for this attack.
- Calls for pressure on the flag state Portugal, and the European Union, to investigate and confront this attack.
The Scottish Parliament becomes the first in the world to endorse BDS against genocidal Israel.
BDS calls for escalated civil society pressure on all states to impose legal and targeted sanctions against apartheid Israel similar to those that helped abolish apartheid in South Africa.
The BDS movement salutes the tireless work of solidarity campaigners in Scotland who made this victory possible. We salute the Parliament of Scotland for this crucial contribution to ending Israel’s genocide.
On September 3, Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSP’s) voted for a full boycott of Israel and companies complicit in its ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
The Scottish Greens’ motion called for "the Scottish and UK Governments to immediately impose a package of boycotts, divestment and sanctions targeted at the state of Israel and at companies complicit in its military operations and its occupation of Palestine.” It was supported by the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the First Minister of Scotland.