Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) Archives

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COMMUNITY

Activist wins defamation suit brought against her by Israeli soldier over FB post

March 5th, 20212 CALIFORNIA — Palestinian activist Suhair Nafal has won a defamation lawsuit brought against her by a former Israeli soldier who claimed Nafal’s Facebook post objecting to Israeli war crimes defamed and slandered her. The former Israeli soldier, Rebecca Rumshiskaya, sued Nafal in September over a viral Facebook post she published...

International

“Freedom is never voluntarily given”: Palestinian boycott of Israel is not racist, it is anti-racist

February 11th, 20210 Claims made by Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang in a recent op-ed in the Jewish weekly, “The Forward”, point to the prevailing ignorance that continues to dominate the U.S. discourse on Palestine and Israel. Yang, a former Democratic presidential candidate, is vying for the Jewish vote in New York City....

Other Voices

2021: Palestine’s chance of fighting back

January 12th, 20210 2020 will go down in history as the year that terminated the American-sponsored “peace process.” While 2021 will not reverse the monumental change in the U.S. attitude and objectives in Palestine, Israel and the Middle East, the new year presents Palestinians with the opportunity to think outside the American box. The previous...