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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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. 
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. 
Sunday, 8th December - We commemorate 37 years since the beginning of the 1st Palestinian Intifada of 1987. 
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.
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. 
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. 
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. 
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.
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.
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. 
“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.”
We ask Albania: Are the explosives destined for Israeli Military Industries still on the ship? Where are they now? 
"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 ship is carrying 150,000 kg of RDX explosives that Israeli Military Industries crucially needs to build more bombs.
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.” 
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.
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.
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. 
Number of Palestinians in Israeli prisons
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. 
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. 