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A BDS demonstration, with anti-BDS protesters nearer the camera, outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, April 2017. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a nonviolent [2] [6] Palestinian-led [7] movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel.
With regard to the Arab–Israeli conflict, many supporters of the State of Israel have often advocated or implemented anti-BDS laws (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions), which effectively seek to retaliate against people and organizations engaged in boycotts of Israel-affiliated entities.
Comprehensive is here defined as a boycott that is not tied to a particular industry (e.g weapons embargo) or exclusive to goods from the Israeli settlements. The list does not include organizations that support BDS' right to call for a boycott of Israel but does not themselves support the boycott.
The union representing professors at the City University of New York approved a resolution last week in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.. The statement ...
“Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest,” protesters at Columbia and universities across the country have chanted. Put most simply, divestment is the opposite of investment.
Roughly 40 states have enacted laws, executive orders or resolutions meant to discourage the boycott, divestment and sanctions – or BDS – movement, according to the Jewish Virtual Library.
At Occidental College in Los Angeles, future US president Barack Obama was one of the divestment activists. [9] As a result of these organised divestment campaigns, the boards of trustees of several colleges and universities voted to divest completely from companies with major South African interests. The first of these was Hampshire College in ...
The MRTI Committee carried out the General Assembly's wish to engage in shareholder activism and as a last resort, divest itself of companies which contravened the GA's position. Divestment follows a phased process that starts with attempted dialog and shareholder resolutions and ultimately the total sale of and future ban on the church's ...