Good news! In Belgium, 482 professors and researchers, and more than 190 artists, have written an open letter calling on their authorities to withdraw from participating in a European Union funded research project called LAW TRAIN, in which Belgium and Spain cooperate with the Israeli National Police. The project, aimed at developing joint interrogation methods, is coordinated by an Israeli university with particularly deep ties to Israel’s army and notorious security services.

Portuguese civil society successfully pressured their authorities to withdraw from LAW TRAIN in July 2016 – marking the first time a government withdrew from an EU funded project following civil society pressure in support of Palestinian rights. Belgium civil society aims to achieve the same.

Learn more here: http://bit.ly/2l4r6Ww

Belgian police has confirmed that it intends to question former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni at her arrival in Brussels today for suspected war crimes. Livni is listed as a speaker at a European Parliament event taking place later today. However it is no longer clear whether Livni will participate in the event as her name has been removed from the official event website.

Watch the four-part al-Jazeera investigative series that go undercover into the shady world of Israel's fight against BDS in the UK. Evidence shows that organizations portraying themselves as "independent" are practically fronts for the Israeli government.

Watch al-Jazeera undercover investigation on how the Israeli embassy in London works - often indistinguishably - with Israel lobby groups to fight BDS. First documentary in a 4-part series shown this week

Beautiful surprise from our friends in Brighton (UK). Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21gRVmYSjCQ #FreePalestine #BDS2017

Read and share: 2016 year in review for the global BDS movement. Thank you for helping us make 2016 another year of accountability and costs for Israel's regime of occupation, colonialism and apartheid.

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel mourns the loss of the venerable author and world-renowned art critic John Berger whose commitment to justice was unwavering.

Hitachi Construction helps Israel build illegal West Bank settlements. Will Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan act to enforce UN SC res 2334?

As 2016 draws to an end, the city of Valencia, with 2.5 million people, votes to declare itself 'Free of Israeli Apartheid' and officially joins the BDS movement! Valencia becomes the 60th town in the Spanish state to join the initiative

Airbnb claims to oppose discrimination - with the recent launch of a "Community Commitment" and a new nondiscrimination policy - yet it continues to help entrench Israeli apartheid by promoting settlement homes in its platform

Public donations in the past two years have allowed us to launch a new website for the BDS movement, enlarge our small staff team, and successfully expand BDS activism in Latin America and the Arab world.

If you can, please chip in and help us grow our movement for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality: http://bdsmovement.net/donate

While Israel’s regime is rejoicing at the rise of the similarly-minded xenophobic and supremacist right in Europe, the US, and elsewhere, we in the BDS movement are celebrating the gradual emergence of a broad, global, progressive intersectional community that includes movements for racial, economic, social, gender and climate justice.

If you can, please help us expand the BDS movement even further in 2017.

Palestinian BDS human rights defenders welcome the statement as a “defining moment” in asserting their right to boycott Israel to realize Palestinian rights

G4S remains involved in Israeli police training and settlement construction business - the pressure continues

The oppressors’ attempts to colonize our minds with fear, complacency and despair have failed. With the inspiring solidarity of millions around the world, our struggle for freedom, justice and equality is stronger than ever. Please help us to make our movement even stronger.

Among other things, supporters of Palestinian rights will remember 2016 as the year that the BDS movement continued to expand despite Israel launching an all-out war of repression against it. Support the Palestinian leadership of the BDS movement today: bdsmovement.net/donate.

In the third academic boycott win this year in Chile, more than 90% of the Social Sciences students of the University of Chile voted for BDS yesterday!