Huge French multinational Veolia divests from Israel

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BDSmovement.net newsletter - September 2015

Welcome to the September 2015 BDSmovement.net newsletter, published by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC).

Huge French multinational Veolia completely divests from Israel

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and its worldwide partners are celebrating the withdrawal of the huge French corporation Veolia from the Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR), an illegal rail system built to facilitate the growth and expansion of Israeli colonial settlements on occupied Palestinian territory.

The sale of its stake in the JLR project ends all of Veolia’s involvement in the Israeli market, including all projects that violate international law and the human rights of the Palestinian people.

The sale follows an extensive 7-year boycott campaign against Veolia, due to its complicity in the Israeli occupation. The campaign cost Veolia contracts around the world estimated to be worth over $20 billion.

Join us: Olympics without Apartheid!

Join our campaign for the exclusion of Israeli security firm ISDS from the Rio 2016 Olympics.

UN faces pressure over contracts with G4S

G4S is a British private security company that acts as a key contractor for Israel’s apartheid regime, providing services and equipment to the police force and prison service, as well as military checkpoints and settlements in the occupied West Bank. The BDS movement is calling on the UN to end its contracts with the company.

Gaza attack pushed US electrical workers’ union to back Israel boycott

The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America – known as UE – has voted to back the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel. This makes it only the second national union in the United States, and the largest so far, to take such a step. Palestinian trade unionists and activists are warmly welcoming the …

Over 1,100 Black activists, artists, scholars, students and organizations signed the 2015 Black Solidarity Statement with Palestine

More than 1,000 Black activists, artists, scholars, students and organizations have released this statement reaffirming their “solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and commitment to the liberation of Palestine’s land and people.”

EU-US trade deal mustn’t stifle calls for Israel boycott, say unions

More than 150 organizations from across Europe are vowing to resist efforts by the United States to stifle campaigns for Palestinian rights by means of the controversial TTIP trade deal

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