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Activism and BDS Beat

News about popular struggle, international solidarity and boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activism

Student senate at UC Berkeley passes resolution condemning lecturer's Islamophobic hate speech

A unanimous vote at UC Berkeley’s student senate on Wednesday night condemns recent hate speech by a University of California lecturer.

BDS Roundup: Israel boycott motion passed in Scotland county

The latest news and action campaigns taking place within the global movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.

How Israel derails the promising careers of Palestinian football stars

As the careers of Palestinian football players are disrupted by Israeli occupation, the pressure on UEFA to cancel the under-21 championship in Israel continues.

Police to charge U of Oregon instructor in violent assault on student Palestine activists caught on video

Shocking video shows University of Oregon instructor assaulting student activists at mock checkpointing highlighting similarities of Palestine with US-Mexico border region.

After hard-fought battle, students celebrate divestment vote victory at UC San Diego

The vote is another indicator of growing support for divestment among students, which is why Zionist groups have vigorously opposed such resolutions whenever they have been proposed

UEFA should cancel football tournament in Israel, says former French sports minister

Israeli restrictions on Palestinian footballers led to Marie-George Buffet calling on the European body to reconsider its plan to host the 2013 European Under-21 championship in Israel

UK students resist Israeli diplomats' campus offensive, despite repression

Israeli ambassadors have dispatched their “explainers” to campuses across the UK to combat activism such as Israeli Apartheid Week, but with decidedly mixed results.

SodaStream lies to keep its products on UK shelves

SodaStream is falsely claiming the illegal settlement where it manufactures its products is a city in Israel, in a ploy to mislead British stores.

Goldsmiths lecturer smears campus activists as anti-Semites on anti-boycott blog

A sociology lecturer at Goldsmiths in London with a track record of attacking Palestine solidarity activists has smeared a students’ society as running a “Don’t Buy from the Jews Week.”

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