Official account of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). We're the Palestinian leadership of the global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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Dec 10 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Today, on UN Human Rights Day, in the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we call on our supporters to heed the Palestinian call for action.
Take action now! Together, let’s end this!
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Adopted only days after the UN passed the illegal and unethical Plan of Partition of Palestine 76 years ago, the Declaration has been systematically violated by Israel throughout its existence as a settler-colonial apartheid state.
Dec 9 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Today is the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime.
Take action now! Together, let’s end this!
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We have been calling for and enacting pressure on states and international institutions to fulfill the bare minimum of their legal obligation to end complicity by imposing lawful, targeted sanctions on Israel.
Dec 6 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Three important dates; three more reasons to mobilize now!
Let's organize across these dates.
Together, let’s end this!
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Sunday, 8th December - We commemorate 37 years since the beginning of the 1st Palestinian Intifada of 1987.
Dec 5 • 16 tweets • 8 min read
Amnesty International finds Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, calls for sanctions.
Read our statement and summary ➡️ loom.ly/5RZhPpc
Amnesty International, the largest international human rights organization finds that, based on policies, actions, and omissions since 7 October, 2023, Israel is committing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in besieged and occupied Gaza.
Amnesty now adds its voice to states, UN experts, and thousands of legal scholars and historians who have reached the same conclusion.
Dec 3 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
#BDSworks!
Strauss Group forced to sell Sabra Dipping Company due to dipping sales!
The Strauss Group, a complicit Israeli multinational food and beverage corporation, has been forced due to a very effective boycott, to sell off its shares in the US-based company, Sabra, which mass produces the culturally-appropriated popular Arab dip, hummus, and other dips.
Nov 15 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Among popular protests and repeated rerouting, the Hong Kong flagged Nysted MAERSK, suspected of carrying US military supplies to Israel, moves towards Haifa port!
#BlockTheBoat
Nysted MAERSK, one of the feeder vessels in the MAERSK scheme of illegal military transfer to Israel, has received at least 46 US military shipments since Oct 7 from the MAERSK Denver in order to transfer them to Israel for use in its ongoing genocide against 2.3M Palestinians.
Nov 12 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
#MilitaryEmbargo Now!
Colombia to replace Israeli-made military aircraft
From Nov 20 - 29, Never Again is Now: we invite you to join the Week for Sanctions to pressure States & the UN to cut all relations of complicity with the genocidal regime of Israel.
On Friday November 8, the Colombian government of @PetroGustavo announced the decision to replace the country’s old fleet of Israeli Kfir aircraft, provided by Israeli Aerospace Industries, citing geopolitical reasons.
Nov 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
MAERSK cannot hide its complicity in the US-Israeli genocide against 2.3M Palestinians in Gaza!
As a result of public pressure, Portugal & Morocco stand up against MAERSK’s illegal transfer of military cargo to Israel, to avoid complicity in violating the Genocide Conventions.
Danish shipping giant Maersk has been already forced to change routes, due to what is a growingly effective military embargo led by grassroots and civil society groups.
Yet, no re-routing is able to stop the protests!
Nov 5 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
More than 230 members of the media industry, including over 100 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) workers, have signed a letter accusing the BBC of pro-Israel bias in its coverage on Gaza.
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By largely erasing Palestinian and consciously spreading Israel’s genocidal and deeply racist propaganda, complicit Western mainstream media outlets, like the BBC, play a critical role in enabling Israel's genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip.
Oct 30 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
#BlockTheBoat: The arms ship MV Kathrin reappears in the port of Alexandria, Egypt.
Is Egypt helping to transfer crucial military explosives to Israel’s genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza?
The MV Kathrin has been sailing for over two months, shunned by ports in Africa and Europe after Namibia’s authorities discovered the vessel was transporting military explosives for Israel’s genocide and its brutal bombings of Lebanon and other Arab people.
The Portuguese government eventually forced the Kathrin to give up its flag and the vessel had to resort to the flag of Germany, the flagbearer of genocide.
Oct 29 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
#ShutDownNation: Global Divestment, Economic Strain, and the Accelerating “Collapse” of Israel’s Economy.
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“BDS and boycotts have changed Israel’s global trade landscape,” said Avi Balashnikov, Chairman of the Israel Export Institute. He added, “we fight every day, hour by hour, for Israeli industry abroad. Economic boycotts and BDS organizations present major challenges, and in some countries, we are forced to operate under the radar.”
Oct 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Albania is complicit in genocide against the Palestinian people: The ship MV Kathrin, carrying military supplies for Israel, docks and unloads cargo at the Albanian port of Durrës.
We ask Albania: Are the explosives destined for Israeli Military Industries still on the ship? Where are they now?
Oct 22 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
It's time to #DumpCisco
"The sight of officers in uniforms sitting next to our engineers ... is very natural to us, but still exciting," says a former Cisco VP of Technology.
The company has operations in illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Oct 18 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Planting a flag on genocide.
Germany grants its flag to the MV Kathrin, a ship carrying military explosives destined for use by Israel in its genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
#BlockTheBoat
The ship is carrying 150,000 kg of RDX explosives that Israeli Military Industries crucially needs to build more bombs.
Germany must be put back in the dock at the ICJ for its gross violation of the Genocide Convention!
Oct 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: Chevron halts major expansion of Israeli-claimed gas field amid Israel's ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and its brutal bombings in Lebanon, Syria and beyond.
Chevron is putting the brakes on an expansion project––worth roughly half a billion dollars––planned for an Israeli-claimed gas field in the Mediterranean, Leviathan, citing the worsening “security situation.”
Oct 4 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
#BlockTheBoat URGENT ACTION ALERT!
The MV Kathrin, is carrying tonnes of RDX explosives to apartheid Israel for use in its genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip. Israel is also committing rolling massacres in Lebanon and escalating its brutal attacks in the occupied West Bank.
The criminal cargo on board the MV Kathrin comes from Vietnam!
Ironically, RDX has become central in warfare since its extensive use by the US in its genocidal war on the people of Vietnam. The Claymore anti-personnel mines made with RDX explode and send a spray of metal ball bearings that act like bullets, shredding people, buildings, and vehicles.
Oct 3 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
EXPOSED: Irish government’s insincerity and complicity with genocidal Israel!
For almost a year, the Irish people have stood in solidarity with the Palestinian people against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Tens of thousands continue to flood the streets across Ireland to demand an end to the genocide and their government’s complicity in Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Aug 28 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
What's happening in the occupied West Bank?
As Israel launches its most extensive invasion of the occupied West Bank since 2002, channel your rage, frustration, and grief into effective, strategic #BDS action and pressure to stop the aggression, end #GazaGenocide and to eventually help Palestinians dismantle Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler-colonial apartheid, the root cause of this oppression and unspeakable violence.
At least 12 Palestinians have been murdered by Israeli occupation forces since last night. Israel announced a large-scale military operation targeting the north of the illegally occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian cities of Jenin, Tulkarm, and Tubas and their camps, are currently being attacked by Israeli forces. All hospitals in Jenin and Tulkarm are currently under Israeli military blockade, repeating on a smaller scale a brutal tactic employed in the Gaza genocide.
Aug 1 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Channel your anger and join the global mobilization on 3 August for Palestinian Prisoners and to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
From the River to the Sea, Palestinian Prisoners will be Free.
End #GazaGenocide
#FreeThemAll
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Number of Palestinians in Israeli prisons
(Data excludes Palestinians arrested/kidnapped from Gaza)
Since 7 October :
⚠️Over 9,840 Palestinians have been arrested.
⚠️Approximately 340 Palestinian women have been arrested. More than 85 are still incarcerated.
⚠️ Approximately 680 Palestinian children have been arrested. 250 are still incarcerated.
⚠️ Israel has issued over 7,500 administrative detention orders, including new and renewed orders.
Jul 12 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Israel’s Genocide against Palestinians Accelerating its Economic Collapse.
#ShutDownNation
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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
Jul 9 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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.
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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.