Latest News on BDS

A Norwegian pension fund that recently announced it planned to blacklist Israeli companies in the West Bank has poured hundreds of millions into Chinese companies linked to slave labor and Russian entities on the U.S. sanctions list. Norges Bank’s Government…

The quick rise in unions around the country endorsing boycotts against Israel could face a challenge in San Francisco. A leader in the San Francisco Labor Council tasked with reviewing a proposed BDS resolution said he agrees with the national arm…

Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) reintroduced a bill providing congressional support and guidelines for state- and local-level efforts to combat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, after efforts to move the legislation forward in…

Judges across the country are greenlighting challenges to laws aiming to prohibit states from doing business with any organization that boycotts Israel. As the suits move through the courts, they are making clear the legal vulnerabilities of so-called anti-Boycott, Divestment,…

The Chilean Congress has drafted a bill to boycott goods, services and products from Israeli settlements, with Jewish Chileans expressing outrage at the latest anti-Israel move by Chilean parliamentarians. The bill was drafted by the Chile-Palestine Inter-Parliamentary Group in the Chamber of…

The local authority in Lancaster has voted to support BDS and urge Lancashire County Council’s pension fund to divest £8 million from companies tied to West Bank settlements. At a Lancaster City Council meeting held on Wednesday night, councillors passed…

Canada’s largest labor union adopted “behind closed doors” a motion last week that supports a boycott of Israel after the resolution initially failed to garner support among members. The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) held its annual convention virtually this year,…

A Canadian federal appeals court reversed a lower court’s decision that barred “Product of Israel” labels for wines produced in Judea and Samaria. In July of 2020, the Federal Court of Canada had ruled that it was “false, misleading or deceptive” for…

The city council of Cambridge, Mass., rejected a resolution supporting the BDS movement. The resolution, Policy Order #109, was voted down after nearly seven-and-a-half hours of public testimony by more than 300 people late Tuesday. The proposed resolution sought to…