The Power of BDS: Our Impact So Far In 2026 ... DIVESTING from Genocide

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To mark 21 years of the BDS movement here is just a sampling of the remarkable BDS impacts achieved in the first half of 2026 — proof that organizing strategically and acting collectively can bring us closer to ending Israel's genocide and dismantling its regime of settler-colonial apartheid against Palestinians. Find even more impacts here: https://loom.ly/Uby_XbY

 

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 The Power of BDS: Our Impact So Far In 2026

Despite the continuing unspeakable grief over the ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, the seeds of our collective struggle are bearing fruit. The Palestinian people's miraculous sumud and popular resistance, combined with your sustained solidarity, has pushed Israel's settler-colonial apartheid regime into the deepest isolation of its 78-year history. 

We are witnessing tangible proof that BDS is working—our movement, active in some 130 countries, is effectively changing policies, making complicit corporations pay a dear price, and building the international pressure that will ultimately bring justice.

The recent wave of sanctions, divestments, and boycott impacts demonstrates what happens when people of conscience refuse to be complicit in genocide. From Spain and Belgium to Indonesia and California, from academic halls to cultural institutions, from trade unions to city councils and beyond — we can see the concrete results of our pressure. 

Below is just a sampling of the remarkable BDS impacts achieved in the first half of 2026 — proof that organizing strategically and acting collectively can bring us closer to ending Israel's genocide and dismantling its regime of settler-colonial apartheid.... READ MORE   https://bdsmovement.net/news/The-Power-Of-BDS-Our-Impact-So-Far-In-2026

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"God is not a real estate agent. The Holy Land is not a prize to be won, but a sanctuary for all God’s children to live in equality." Kairos II provides a definitive Christian perspective on the current reality in the Holy Land. It offers a framework for understanding this as a moral and spiritual crisis that demands a response from every person of faith.

Sabeel-Kairos: Seeking a just peace for Palestine and Kairos Palestine

"God is not a real estate agent. The Holy Land is not a prize to be won, but a sanctuary for all God’s children to live in equality."

Kairos II provides a definitive Christian perspective on the current reality in the Holy Land. It offers a framework for understanding this as a moral and spiritual crisis that demands a response from every person of faith.

What you can do:

Read & Reflect: Deepen your understanding by engaging with the full text.

https://www.kairospalestine.ps/.../Final_Kairos_document...

Study: Download the Kairos II Study Guide and lead a discussion group in your church or community-or join our online study series.

https://www.kairosresponse.org/kp2guide.html

Respond: Support the call for non-violent resistance, including BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) as a path toward a just peace.

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Jewish Voice for Peace: We can demand that our community institutions stop investing in genocide and Israeli apartheid by stopping buying Israel Bonds. And by doing so, we withdraw key support for violence against Palestinians.

 Jewish Voice for Peace

@jvplive

Israel bonds divestment is a key tool to stop the Israeli government’s crimes and defend Palestinian rights. Running a permanent military occupation and apartheid, while enacting a genocide, is both morally depraved and also costly for the Israeli government. And now, the Israeli economy has increasingly risky levels of debt.

 

The Israeli government sells Israel bonds to borrow billions of dollars all at once, which funds its violence against Palestinians—everything from bombing campaigns of Palestinians in Gaza to the accelerated ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and expanding illegal settlements on Palestinian land.

The problem with borrowing more and more money is that the Israeli government’s interest payments add up. Its debt is troublingly large given the size of its economy and Israel bonds are one of the reasons why. This means the Israeli economy is highly vulnerable to Israel bonds divestment.

That’s why we organize at the grassroots level to get our local and state governments and pension funds to divest from Israel bonds. The more success we have, the more we can destabilize the Israeli economy.

As the Israeli economy is destabilized, people in Israel will feel the impact and hold their own government accountable and be forced to reckon with the truth that a stable economy is only possible once the Israeli government respects Palestinian rights and follows international law.

There’s organizing to be done! US state governments, municipalities, pension funds, trade unions, universities and other institutions all buy Israel bonds (often for hundreds-of-millions of dollars) and then receive interest payments from the Israeli government. This not only implicates US communities in Israeli genocide, it’s also bad business. There are other ways to get better-performing, stable interest payments that don’t involve giving a blank check to a government committing crimes against humanity.

https://x.com/jvplive/status/2025959368257057183 

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We can demand that our community institutions stop investing in genocide and Israeli apartheid by stopping buying Israel Bonds. And by doing so, we withdraw key support for violence against Palestinians.

Communities everywhere should be able to live in safety and dignity, without fear that they will be hurt or discriminated against simply because of who they are.

But the Israeli military and government are upholding a brutal system of total domination over Palestinians — a separate-and-unequal, apartheid system and a violent occupation of stolen Palestinian land. Now, the Israeli military is committing a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

And our communities are directly enabling it.

While many know that the U.S. Congress sends billions of dollars each year to support the Israeli military’s violence against Palestinians, few know that billions of dollars in funding to the Israeli military and government comes from institutions and spaces much closer to home.

That’s right: Our local governments, state governments, unions, pension funds, universities, places of worship, and other institutions are directly supporting the Israeli military and government by investing billions in Israel Bonds.

Together, we can stop this.

Here’s a start: Divest from your Israel Bonds, and tell the Israeli government, "Not in my name! Not with my money!" Then, invest in Palestinian Freedom.

We all have a role to play in stopping the Israeli military’s genocide in Gaza. Together, we can hold the Israeli government accountable for treating Palestinians inhumanely.

Together, we can make our voices heard.

     https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/break-the-bonds-divest/

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"Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique. The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in Gaza."

Central to rationales for arming Israel is the claim that it is the nation of “the Jewish people”.’ Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP

"During the 1980s, when activists in the United States and elsewhere targeted apartheid South Africa with non-violent campaigns for boycotts, divestment and sanctions, those actions did not provoke charges of being anti-white. In this century, the nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has targeted Israel, a country condemned as an apartheid state by one human rights organization after another after another – and BDS supporters, even if Jewish, routinely face accusations of antisemitism. In Congress, the accusers include many liberal Democrats" 

by Norman Solomon

Tue 16 Sep 2025

The Guardian  

More than nine months after Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports that concluded Israel was committing genocide – and more than a month since key Israeli human rights groups asserted the same – the American political establishment remains in rigid denial while horrors continue nonstop in Gaza. Virtually all Republicans and most Democrats in Congress still support massive US arms shipments to Israel, so they certainly can’t admit that the weaponry is making genocide possible.America

Central to rationales for arming Israel is the claim that it is the nation of “the Jewish people”.

When the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, spoke via video to a conference in Jerusalem three months ago, he declared: “There can be no nuanced separation of hatred of Israel and hatred of the Jewish people.” Rubio added: “Those who call for the destruction of Israel are calling for the destruction of the Jewish people.” Last month, the House speaker, Mike Johnson, reinforced the same message while visiting Israel, where he reportedly said that the West Bank was “the rightful property of the Jewish people”.

Such rhetoric – equating Israel with all Jews and Israel’s future with theirs – is an effort to sanctify Israel and shield it from criticism by brandishing the charge of antisemitism.

Fusing Israel with “the Jewish people” is a key propaganda technique. The fact that it’s so ubiquitous makes it no less ridiculous, or dangerous. A comment attributed to Voltaire applies: “As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”

And atrocities continue with no end in sight. Israel has persisted with methodical – and clearly intentional – killing of Palestinian civilians not only with bombs, missiles and bullets but also with starvation as a weapon of war. Blockage or extreme constriction of humanitarian aid has been the norm. All summer, Israel has ignored the United Nations warning issued in June that food intake in Gaza had dropped far below “survival” level. By then, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross said conditions there had become worse than “hell on earth”.

Ironically, the country that we’re told is the ultimate target of antisemitism is now, in reality, the world’s most powerful cause of antisemitism. By insisting that it is the embodiment of Jews all over the world, the state of Israel seeks to associate Jews everywhere with its systematic war crimes and genocide in Gaza along with deadly ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank.... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/16/jews-israel-not-the-same-propaganda-technique

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Jewish Voice for Peace: Mazel tov to the Presbyterian Church (USA) on their historic vote to divest from Israel's occupation, one year ago! !!!!!!!!!

Jewish Voice for Peace

@jvplive

Mazel tov to the

@Presbyterian

Church (USA) on their historic vote to divest from Israel's occupation, one year ago!

 

The Ceasefire in Gaza: The crisis is far from over...

Omar Baddar عمر بدّار

@OmarBaddar

 

Israel killed 80 Palestinians in Gaza today, 30 of whom killed after the ceasefire deal was announced. Israel always accelerates its massacres in the lead-up to ceasefire deadlines. Gaza also remains a besieged concentration camp reduced to rubble. The crisis is far from over.

 

Yusuf / Cat Stevens

@YusufCatStevens

 

 What a relief! Thank you Lord. But also a shameful moment for Humanity that so much blood had to be spilled before politicians in power agreed to ceasefire - peace can never come too soon

UNICEF

@UNICEF

"This is long overdue for the children and families of Gaza who have endured more than a year of bombardment and deprivation, and for the hostages in Gaza and their families in Israel who have suffered so much."

@unicefchief

on announcement of ceasefire: https://unicef.org/press-releases

“The war has exacted a horrific toll on Gaza’s children – reportedly leaving at least 14,500 dead, thousands more injured, an estimated 17,000 unaccompanied or separated from their parents, and nearly one million displaced from their homes.

“The scale of humanitarian needs is enormous, and UNICEF and partners are ready to scale up our response. The ceasefire must, finally, afford humanitarian actors the opportunity to safely roll out the massive response inside the Gaza Strip that is so desperately needed. This includes unimpeded access to reach all children and families with essential food and nutrition, health care and psychosocial support, clean water, and sanitation, education, and learning, as well as cash assistance and the resumption of commercial trucking operations.

“With the collapse of essential services across Gaza, we must act urgently to save lives and help children recover."  ...READ MORE  https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/statement-unicef-executive-director-catherine-russell-announcement-ceasefire-gaza

Hanan Ashrawi

@DrHananAshrawi

Depraved & sadistic. With the announcement of the upcoming ceasefire Israel shelled the Palestinians celebrating in the street, then shelled the tattered tents of the displaced. The utmost cruelty.

Hind Khoudary

@Hind_Gaza

At least 71 Palestinians have been killed and more than 200 injured since the announcement of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

4:35 AM · Jan 16, 2025

 

Human Rights Watch

@hrw

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a phased ceasefire deal that includes boosting aid into Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Over the last 15 months, civilians have been targeted, attacked and killed at a scale unprecedented in the recent history of Israel and Palestine.

 

BDS movement

@BDSmovement

Our work is not done! A ceasefire is only the most important first step to end the genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Without massive pressure, it may constitute a continuation of a less visible form of genocide that Israel and the US hope will provoke less regional and global outrage, boycotts and sanctions. Boycott and pressure these companies now for their complicity in Israel’s occupation, apartheid and genocide against Palestinians.

 

United Nations Geneva

@UNGeneva

"I welcome the announcement of a deal to secure a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza. I urge the parties & relevant partners to seize this opportunity to establish a credible political path to a better future for Palestinians, Israelis & broader region." -

@antonioguterres

 

Mosab Abu Toha

@MosabAbuToha

The 40 people who were killed after the ceasefire deal announcement yesterday afternoon managed to survive over the past 15 months, be it starvation, air strikes, illnesses, and the nonstop evacuation orders. Just in a click of a button, they were killed with their families. And yet sadly, more will be killed in Gaza today and will they never live to return to their bombed houses and feel that they made it.

BDS commemorates 37 years since the beginning of the 1st Palestinian Intifada of 1987... TAKE #nonviolent ACTION

Sunday, 8th December:

• We commemorate 37 years since the beginning of the 1st Palestinian Intifada of 1987. A collective and inclusive movement spread from Gaza across historic Palestine calling for boycotts, strikes, and popular resistance to end Israel's military occupation and colonial rule.

  “Today we confront the most brutal phase of Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler colonialism and apartheid. This is manifested in a genocide perpetrated against our people in Gaza, which is funded, armed and shielded from accountability by the colonial West, led by the US. Also corporations and institutions that continue business-as-usual with apartheid Israel are  complicit in apartheid and genocide. In the spirit of the Palestinian Intifada, we continue to steadfast, to resist oppression, and we shall eventually overcome. We call on people of conscience worldwide to mobilize to end all forms of state, corporate and institutional complicity with Israel. Together, we shall prevail and build towards a better humanity.” - Mahmoud Nawajaa, BNC General Coordinator.

 Monday, 9th December:

The International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime.

For over a year, we have been sharing the images, stories and ghastly statistics of the rising number of Palestinians killed, burned, starved, displaced, and fallen sick by Israel’s devastating genocide in Gaza. 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.

On 5th December, 2024 the world’s largest human rights organization, Amnesty International, added its voice to states, UN experts, and thousands of legal scholars and historians who have reached the same conclusion. Amnesty found 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. It  called on states to impose targeted and lawful sanctions on apartheid Israel.

Tuesday, 10th December:

• On the 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. 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.

Let's organize across these dates, peacefully disrupting business-as-usual with Israel, amplifying Palestinian demands in your mobilizations, and helping us grow the power of the BDS movement  to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza and dismantle its regime of settler-colonial apartheid.

TAKE ACTION:

1. PRESSURE YOUR GOVERNMENT TO IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON ISRAEL, INCLUDING A COMPREHENSIVE MILITARY EMBARGO.

2. TAKE TO THE STREETS TO PRESSURE GOVERNMENTS TO END COMPLICITY.

3. FOCUS ON BDS PRIORITY TARGETS AND CAMPAIGNS.

4. DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION OF APARTHEID ISRAEL FROM THE UN.

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