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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Graffiti supporting the boycott of Israel Boycotts of Israel are the refusal and calls to refusal of having commercial or social dealings with Israel in order to influence Israel's practices and policies by means of using economic pressure. The specific objective of Israel boycotts varies; the ...
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 British Committee for Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) was organized in 2004 in response to a Palestinian call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel. [1] The idea of an academic boycott against Israel first emerged publicly in England on 6 April 2002 in an open letter [2] to The Guardian initiated by two of the founders of BRICUP, Steven and Hilary Rose, then professors in biology ...
The idea of an academic boycott against Israel first emerged publicly in England on 6 April 2002 in an open letter to The Guardian initiated by Steven and Hilary Rose, professors in biology at the Open University and social policy at the University of Bradford respectively, who called for a moratorium on all cultural and research links with Israel. [17]
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the British Mandate, winning immediate recognition from the US and Soviet Union ...
A precursor to BDS is the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), which was founded in April 2004 in Ramallah with Barghouti as a founding committee member. [86] [87] [88] PACBI led the campaign for the academic and cultural boycotts of Israel. It has since been integrated into the larger BDS movement.
The list of supporters of the BDS movement includes those who have either voiced support for the BDS movement or for comprehensive boycotts against Israel. The list does not include people who support boycotting products from Israeli settlements but not from Israel. The year column denotes the year they most recently professed support for such ...
The escalating war in Israel is the latest geopolitical conflict to find its way into corporate America. ... (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement, while the other half demanded we stand with ...