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.
Israel’s Genocide against Palestinians Accelerating its Economic Collapse.
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A leading Israeli paper revealed on Wednesday that 46,000 Israeli businesses have shut down since the start of Israel’s #GazaGenocide against 2.3m Palestinians.
This is the strongest indicator to date of the accelerating and “very serious” damage to the Israeli economy. #ShutDownNation
As things are going, Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid may not live to “celebrate its centennial,” according to a recent report by Eugene Kandel, former head of Israel’s National Economic Council at the PM's Office, and Ron Tzur, who was a senior government official.
They paint “a picture of total failure in the systems, management and operations of the [Israeli] administration … a collapse.”
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.
For our 19th anniversary we have highlighted a sample of significant BDS impacts since the beginning of Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip.
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.
Answering some of the most frequently asked questions about the #BDS movement’s boycott targets.
The BDS movement carefully evaluates and prioritises targeted companies based on the level of their complicity in Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, among other targeting criteria.
If new information comes to light indicating that a company is significantly contributing to Israel’s genocide or its regime of settler-colonial apartheid, we will consider prioritizing it.
Imposing US sanctions on Israel, once taboo, is finally mainstreaming. Calls for trade sanctions, canceling arms shipments, or conditioning military sales are now rising even among dozens of Congress members & former senior White House officials.
For 6 months, the US has been arming, funding and diplomatically shielding Israel’s #GazaGenocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in occupied & besieged Gaza. Polls show that at least 52% of Americans now support stopping all arms shipments to Israel.
Longtime Democratic leader and AIPAC-beneficiary Nancy Pelosi is among the 56+ members of Congress urging Biden to suspend arms transfers to Israel over the “harm to innocent [Palestinian] civilians in Gaza” and the deadly attacks on humanitarian aid workers.
US VP Kamala Harris said: “People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane & our common humanity compels us to act.” Affirming starving Palestinians in Gaza were met with Israeli gunfire, Harris said Israel must allow more aid in, “no excuses.”
What is the “excuse” then for the US government partnering in Israel’s #GazaGenocide, excluding itself from any “common humanity.”
It arms, funds and defends Israel’s genocide, preventing a ceasefire and any form of accountability to international law.
All 2.3M Palestinians in occupied Gaza are hungry & over half a million are “starving,” according to UN experts. By defunding UNRWA, the colonial West led by the US is directly starving Palestinians, according to @LemkinInstitute for Genocide Prevention.
For the first time in its history, Israel’s credit rating has been downgraded by Moody’s. Its rating outlook was also changed to “negative,” reflecting its growing debt, budget deficit, and structural economic woes. archive.fo/DXEXX
This is a major blow to Israel's economy as it continues its genocidal war on the 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. More than ever, Israel is looking like a #ShutDownNation.
Moody’s stated on Friday that Israel’s war on Gaza and its aftermath will “materially raise political risk for Israel as well as weaken its executive and legislative institutions and its fiscal strength, for the foreseeable future.”