The BDS Movement: Ongoing Challenges and Victories

The BDS movement called for a student conference entitled “Towards Liberal Universities: Students United Against Persecution” to discuss the challenges and difficulties students face in organizational and union work on November 13-14-15, 2020.

The German government suspended the "De-Zionism" school activity after imposing censorship on the boycott movements (BDS), a project organized by Israeli artists in Berlin.

The Palestinian Labor Organization also sought to raise 10,000 pounds to support direct action against Israeli apartheid, and the GoFundMe page banned it after it was informed by UKLFI that it bears full responsibility for collecting these funds by bearing its legal consequences.

On the other hand, activists in the boycott movement condemned the announcement of the participation of the two companies, Rafael and IE, which is one of the largest manufacturers of weapons to kill Palestinians, in the National Defense Exhibition and Conference, IDEX, to be held in February 2021, and they condemned “Ammar Kamba Al-Najjar”, a candidate for the American Congress of Palestinian origin, for the controversy to be picked up Picture with former Israeli Prime Minister “Ehud Barak”.

The US administration accused several international non-governmental organizations, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam, of being anti-Semitic and supporting boycott movements.

For its part, the Green Party candidate for “Basel” city, Heidi Mock, launched a parliamentary initiative that sought to stop the construction department in “Basel” with the French company Veolia for its participation in building a train system in Jerusalem.

Corrie Bush, a Democrat who supports the boycott movement, won a seat in the US Congress for the St. Louis area, as well as Representatives “Elhan Omar” and “Rashida Tlaib”, who support the BDS movement.

In the same context France welcomed the Sudanese normalization with the occupation state of israel, through the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which announced that it is with any way to eliminate hostility and achieve international peace and security.

While The Kuwaiti authorities uncovered a store selling Israeli products, and the Kuwaiti authorities closed it after they transferred it to the Public Prosecution Office for violating the Kuwaiti boycott law. Meanwhile, the Iraqi government renewed its rejection of normalization, out of respect for the feelings of the Palestinians.