Help Boycot Israel

 

Dear supporter,

Israel’s far-right government and its lobby groups are pumping tens of millions of dollars into efforts to silence advocates of Palestinian human rights. They are waging a war of repression on the BDS movement precisely because with your support, our movement is effectively exposing and challenging Israel’s grave violations of Palestinian human rights and its brutal regime of military occupation and apartheid.

Please donate to help us continue our critical work despite Israel’s repression. 

See here for 18 highlights of the BDS movement’s impact in 2018.

Israel’s expensive campaign to bully, smear and repress supporters of Palestinian rights has backfired. It has in fact strengthened the resolve of BDS activists who, with your support, took the movement to a new height in 2018. It has also triggered unprecedented condemnation by prominent human rights organizations and civil rights networks concerned with freedom of expression.

Growing numbers of people around the world are recognizing Israel’s crimes and seeing the Palestinian cause as a central part of a global movement for freedom, justice and equality, against the forces of xenophobia, hatred and militarism.

The struggle for Palestinian rights is winning new constituencies. 

Look at artists for example.

This year alone, Shakira, Natalia Oreiro, Gilberto Gil, Natalie Portman, Lorde, Lana Del Rey and many other artists cancelled their events in Israel. Eleven artists and directors withdrew from Tel Aviv’s LGBT Film Festival this year.

500 Latin American artists, dozens of bands using the hashtag #ArtistsForPalestine, scores of prominent DJs deploying the hashtag #DJsForPalestine and the director of Portugal’s national theater Tiago Rodrigues all endorsed the cultural boycott of Israel until Palestinian rights are respected.

Increasingly, international artists are refusing to help cover-up or "art-wash" Israel’s criminal treatment of Palestinians and are responding to our call to respect the Palestinian picket line against Israeli apartheid.

With your support, we can reach more artists in 2019. Please donate to our year-end fundraiser.

Sincerely,

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society. It leads and supports the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.