List of organizations that have endorsed the BDS movement explained

List of organizations that support the BDS movement include organizations that either has supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement or has endorsed comprehensive boycotts of Israel. 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 year column indicates when the organization first professed support for BDS.

OrganizationTypeMembersRegionYear
Edinburgh University Students' Association[1] [2] Students' union41,300UK2016
The Harvard Crimson Editorial Board[3] [4] Editorial board87US2022
Teaching Assistants Association[5] Trade union9,000US2016
Muslim Student Union[6] Students' union?US2010
National Lawyers Guild[7] Bar association?US2020
Union of Agricultural Work Committees[8] Farmers' union?Palestine2012
Canadian Union of Postal Workers[9] Trade union54,000Canada2018
Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante[10] Student union?Canada2008
Fédération des femmes du Québec[11] Feminist organization?Canada2010
Centrale des syndicats du Québec[12] Trade union180,000Canada2018
Democratic Socialists of America[13] Political organization ?United States2017
Palestinian General Federation of Trade UnionsTrade union290,000Palestine?
Socialist Left Party[14] Political party?Norway2019
ARIJThink tank?Palestine2005
Addameer[15] Prisoner support?Palestine2005
Palestinian NGOs NetworkUmbrella org. for NGOs134[16] Palestine?
Movement for Black Lives[17] Coalition of human rights groups50+US2016
Boycott from WithinPolitical group?Israel?
New ProfilePolitical group?Israel2019
Women in Black[18] Anti-war group10,000International?
BRISMES[19] Scholarly organization ?UK2019
LO[20] Trade union900,000Norway2017
Ma'an News Agency[21] [22] Wire servicen/aPalestine2005
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions[23] Human rights NGO?Israel2010
War on Want[24] Anti-poverty charity?UK2018
National Union of Journalists[25] [26] Trade union40,000UK2007
Union of Students in Ireland[27] Student union374,000Ireland2018
Irish Congress of Trade Unions[28] Trade union600,000Ireland2009
Scottish Trades Union Congress[29] Trade union560,000UK2009
University and College Union[30] Trade union120,000UK2010
National Union of Students[31] Student unionMillionsUK2015
National Campus and Community Radio Association[32] NGO of radio stations?Canada2011
Mennonite Church Canada[33] Church31,000Canada2016
Unifor[34] Trade union310,000Canada2017
Concordia Graduate Students AssociationStudent union8,000Canada2013
Concordia Student Union[35] Student union?Canada2014
York Federation of Students[36] Student union?Canada2013
Scarborough Campus Students' Union[37] Student union14,000Canada2020
American Friends Service Committee[38] Religious societyThousandsUS2019
NATFHE[39] [40] Trade union69,000UK2006
CUT[41] Trade union20 millionBrazil?
Trades Union CongressTrade union7 millionUK?
Canadian Union of Public Employees[42] Trade union700,000Canada2006
UE[43] Trade union35,000US2015
Hampshire CollegePrivate collegen/aUS2009
Jewish Voice for Peace[44] Human rights NGO?US2015
American Studies Association[45] Scholarly organization5,000US2013
Association for Asian American StudiesScholarly organization?US2013
American Anthropological Association[46] Scholarly organization10,000+US2023
Association for Humanist SociologyScholarly organization?US?
NACCSScholarly organization?US?
NAISAScholarly organization?US?
Middle East Studies Association of North AmericaScholarly organization?US?
National Women's Studies Association[47] Scholarly organization2,350US2015
Congress of South African Trade Unions[48] Trade union?South Africa2011
National Union of Teachers[49] Trade union?UK2014
Unite the Union[50] Trade union?UK2014
UAW Local 2865[51] [52] Trade union14,000US2014
Confédération des syndicats nationaux[53] Trade union325,000Canada2015
African National Congress[54] Political party769,000South Africa2012
Green Party of England and Wales[55] Political party?England and Wales2014
Scottish Greens[56] Political party?Scotland2015
Green Party of Canada[57] Political party?Canada2016
Socialist International[58] ???2018
Greens New South Wales[59] Political party3,000Australia2010
Québec solidaire[60] Political party?Canada?
Students for Justice in PalestineHuman rights NGO?International?
All India Kisan Sabha[61] Peasant movement16 millionIndia2017
Canadian Federation of Students[62] Student union500,000Canada2018
Association des Travailleurs Grecs du Québec[63] Immigrant labor organization?Canada?
NDN Collective[64] Human rights NGO?US2021
Students' Federation of India[65] Scholarly organization4,300,405[66] India2018
Latin American Council of Social Sciences[67] Scholarly organization?International2022
University of Melbourne Student Union[68] Student union?Australia2022
National Conference of Black Lawyers[69] Human rights NGO?US2021
Green Party of California[70] Political party85,828US2022
Anglican Church of Southern Africa[71] Church?South Africa2019
United Church of Christ[72] Church773,500United States2015
Northern Independence Party[73] Political party1,400[74] United Kingdom2023
Fourth International[75] Polirtical organisation?International2010
Muslim Students Federation (Kerala state)Student union200,000International2006

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Edinburgh Students Vote 62% for BDS . The Forward . April 5, 2016 . December 5, 2020.
  2. The motion passed 249 to 153 with 22 absentions but were later overturned.
  3. News: In Support of Boycott, Divest, Sanctions and a Free Palestine . 1 May 2022 . en-US . The Harvard Crimson . 9 May 2022.
  4. News: The Crimson Faces Backlash Over Editorial Endorsing BDS Movement . 9 May 2022 . en-US . The Harvard Crimson. 9 May 2022.
  5. "Pinkwashing and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Campaign," May 25, 2016 . Journal of Civil and Human Rights . University of Illinois Press . 5 . 2019 . 2378-4245 . 10.5406/jcivihumarigh.2019.0032 . 32. Shafie . Chávez . 211353589 .
  6. Web site: Anti-Semitism at UC Irvine . 2013 . . Anti-Defamation League . In May 2010, the Muslim Student Union (MSU) held its annual anti-Israel event at UC Irvine (UCI), titled "Israeli Apartheid Week: A Call to Boycott, Divest and Sanction,".
  7. Web site: Agent for Israel drops lawsuit against National Lawyers Guild . The Electronic Intifada . May 20, 2020 . November 7, 2020 . A lawsuit intended to harass the National Lawyers Guild over its support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights has been voluntarily dismissed by the anti-Palestinian litigant who filed it..
  8. Web site: Palestinian civil society applauds UK Co-operative movement decision to end trade with companies involved with Israeli violations of international law . BDS Movement . May 3, 2012 . November 7, 2020.
  9. Web site: What is Happening in Palestine? Nakba – 70th Anniversary of the Palestinian Catastrophe . CUPW . May 14, 2018 . October 23, 2020.
  10. Web site: Support L'Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ) Decision to Join the BDS Movement . BDS Movement . June 3, 2008 . October 23, 2020.
  11. Web site: Fédération des Femmes du Québec (FFQ) declares support for BDS . BDS Movement . June 7, 2010 . October 23, 2020.
  12. Web site: Un syndicat québécois se prononce pour BDS . Association France Palestine Solidarité . July 13, 2009 . fr . October 23, 2020.
  13. Web site: DSA Votes for BDS, Reparations, and Out of the Socialist International . Left Voice . October 18, 2020.
  14. Web site: i24NEWS . i24NEWS . October 17, 2020.
  15. Web site: Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) statement on BDS movement . Addameer . February 9, 2016 . October 17, 2020.
  16. Web site: EU funding criterion accused of 'criminalising Palestinian resistance' . Middle East Monitor . February 4, 2020 . October 17, 2020.
  17. Web site: Sidahmed . Mazin . Critics denounce Black Lives Matter platform accusing Israel of 'genocide' . the Guardian . August 11, 2016 . October 14, 2020.
  18. Book: Leonie Fleischmann. The Israeli Peace Movement: Anti-Occupation Activism and Human Rights since the Al-Aqsa Intifada. 19 September 2019. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-83860-098-3. 41.
  19. Web site: British Society for Middle Eastern Studies endorses boycott of Israeli universities . Middle East Monitor . June 25, 2019 . August 29, 2020. The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) has endorsed the Palestinian call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, in a vote taken at its AGM in Leeds on Monday. According to reports on social media, the resolution supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign was easily passed, with almost 80 percent support (final numbers to be confirmed)..
  20. Web site: Defying leaders, Norway trade unionists endorse Israel boycott . The Electronic Intifada . May 18, 2017 . August 29, 2020. Norway’s largest and most influential trade union organization has called for a full boycott of Israel. Last Friday, the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) voted to endorse a statement that embraces the entire slate of demands in the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS)..
  21. Signatory to the BDS call.
  22. Web site: Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS . BDS Movement . July 9, 2005 . August 29, 2020.
  23. Web site: Boycotts, Divestments, Sanctions . ICAHD . April 5, 2015 . August 29, 2020. The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) was the first Israeli organisation to endorse a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign and to formulate a statement, issued in January 2005, calling on the international community to support it. The statement was updated in January 2010 and reaffirms ICAHD's support for BDS as an instrument of Palestinian liberation and brings our call into the framework of the Unified Palestinian Civil Society Call of 2005..
  24. Web site: Rehman . Asad . the Guardian . January 9, 2018 . Israel's BDS blacklist is straight out of apartheid. The UK can't condone it . August 29, 2020. Banning groups, such as War on Want, that support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is a desperate attempt to silence human rights defenders.
  25. In 2014, NUJ voted against a motion supporting boycotts of all Israeli goods and BDS.
  26. Web site: The backlash against the UK National Union of Journalists' boycott motion . The Electronic Intifada . May 1, 2007 . August 28, 2020. The fact that BBC journalist Alan Johnston was still missing, presumed held by a Palestinian group, at the time of the conference, increased the anti-boycotters’ sense of incredulity. Witness Jonathan Freedland’s Guardian column: “ ‘So, besides holding a special session on Johnston, what is the NUJ’s response? To spring into action and boycott, er, Israel. Does someone need to give those 66 NUJ activists who voted for a boycott (as opposed to the 54 who voted against) a quick refresher course in the Middle East conflict, so they can tell which side is which?’”.
  27. Web site: Students vote to support justice and human rights for Palestine by backing BDS campaign . Union of Students in Ireland . October 11, 2019 . August 28, 2020.
  28. Web site: Irish Congress of Trade Unions maintains commitment to BDS and moves policy forward . Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign . August 28, 2020.
  29. Web site: Scottish Trade Union Congress Joins BDS Campaign!!! . BDS Movement . April 23, 2009 . August 28, 2020.
  30. News: Britain's largest academic union cuts ties with Histadrut . Jonny Paul . . 2 June 2010 . 8 June 2011.
  31. Web site: Eichner . Itamar . UK's National Union of Students joins BDS movement . ynetnews . June 2, 2015 . August 28, 2020. An amendment supporting the BDS movement was proposed by the School of Oriental and African Studies. This too passed, with 19 voting in favor, 14 against and three abstained.
  32. Web site: NCRC: resolutions from the membership . NCRA/ANREC . Aug 14, 2020 . This year the membership upheld an AMARC motion supporting the BDS movement in solidarity with Palestine, changed Women in Radio day to Equity in Radio day, set in motion a national campaign supporting CKLN and reserving its frequency in Toronto and struck committees for social justice and anti-racism work. . June 19, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210619041045/https://ncra.ca/news/ncrc-resolutions-from-the-membership . dead .
  33. Web site: Mennonite Church of Canada Backs BDS . The Forward . Jul 18, 2016 . Aug 14, 2020. The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement claimed a landslide victory in Canada on the weekend of July 9 as the Mennonite Church Canada Assembly overwhelmingly supported a resolution backing the boycott of Israel..
  34. Web site: Unifor, Canada's largest private-sector union, adopts BDS motion . The Canadian Jewish News . Aug 31, 2017 . Aug 14, 2020. Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector union with more than 310,000 members across the country, adopted a motion in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement at its recent convention..
  35. Web site: Concordia president swiftly denounces pro-BDS vote . The Canadian Jewish News . Aug 14, 2020. Concordia University president Alan Shepard has denounced academic boycotts in principle in the wake of undergraduates at his school narrowly voting in favour of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. ... In January 2013, the Concordia Graduate Students Association passed a pro-BDS resolution at its general assembly. Its membership is about 8,000..
  36. Web site: Boycott resolution passed by York University's undergraduate student union. On Thursday in Toronto, York University’s undergraduate student union — the York Federation of Students — passed a resolution in favor of the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. The York Federation of Students is the largest student union in Canada. The resolution demands that the university administration “abides by the BDS call” and urges York to “withdraw its investments from Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Amphenol and other companies that are selling weapons and military equipment to Israel.”. Nora Barrows-Friedman.
  37. Web site: SCSU Board of Directors votes to reaffirm support for BDS movement – The Varsity . The Varsity – U of T's student newspaper since 1880. Jan 26, 2020 . Aug 14, 2020. After a chaotic Annual General Meeting that left many items on the agenda unaddressed due to a room-booking issue, the Scarborough Campus Students’ Union (SCSU) voted to reaffirm its support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel at its January Board of Directors meeting on January 22..
  38. Web site: What you should know about AFSC's support for the BDS movement . American Friends Service Committee . Jan 7, 2019 . Aug 14, 2020.
  39. The motion calling for an academic boycott of Israel was only in effect a few days before the union merged with the Association of University Teachers at which point it was reduced to advisory status.
  40. News: Lecturers call for Israel boycott . BBC News . 30 May 2006 . 16 September 2012.
  41. Book: The Case for Sanctions Against Israel. 2 May 2012. Verso Books. 978-1-84467-803-7. 90.
  42. Web site: Ontario CUPE website. Background on Resolution #50. 2006-06-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20060615191452/http://www.ontario.cupe.ca/www/background_on_resolution_50. 2006-06-15 . dead .
  43. Web site: UE Endorses BDS Movement for Peace and Justice in Israel and Palestine. UE.
  44. Web site: JVP Supports the BDS Movement . Jewish Voice for Peace . August 28, 2020 . August 15, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210815094908/https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/jvp-supports-the-bds-movement/ . dead .
  45. Book: William I. Robinson. Maryam S. Griffin. We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel's Critics. 20 March 2017. AK Press. 978-1-84935-277-2. 33.
  46. News: Anthropologists Vote to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions . Jaschik . Scott . 2023-07-24 . 2023-11-08 . Inside Higher Ed.
  47. Web site: U.S. women's studies group votes to join BDS movement . Haaretz.com . December 1, 2015 . October 13, 2020.
  48. Web site: COSATU Endorses the Palestinian Call to Impose an Immediate, Comprehensive Military Embargo on Israel . BDSmovement. 2011. 2 January 2016.
  49. Web site: NUT Annual Conference 2014 final agenda. National Union of Teachers. 2014. 2 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20140723190455/http://www.teachers.org.uk/files/nut-final-agenda.pdf. 23 July 2014. dead.
  50. News: UK's largest union backs boycott of Israel . Lewis . Jerry . 6 July 2014 . The Jerusalem Post . 5 July 2014.
  51. A year after the UAW Local 2865 adopted its resolution in support of the BDS, the UAW International Executive Board "nullified" the vote.
  52. Web site: Solidarity with UAW Local 2865. January 28, 2016.
  53. Web site: Louis-Serge Houle . La CSN se joint au mouvement mondial . Confédération des syndicats nationaux. 2015. 2 January 2016.
  54. News: Gordin. Jeremy. South Africa's Ruling Party Endorses BDS Campaign Against Israel. Haaretz. 2015-11-21. 2012-12-21.
  55. https://policy.greenparty.org.uk/record-of-policy-statements.html Israel's Ground Invasion
  56. News: Scottish Party Passes Motion for Boycott of Israel, Removal of Hamas From List of Terror Groups. Algemeiner.com. 2015-11-22. 2015-10-13.
  57. News: Green Party's support for 'polarizing' boycott against Israel forces Elizabeth May to reconsider future. 10 August 2016. CBC News. 9 August 2016.
  58. Web site: Socialist International of 140 Global Political Parties Adopts BDS, Calls for Military Embargo on Israel . Palestinian BDS National Committee . 6 July 2018. July 5, 2018.
  59. News: Israel boycotts now official NSW Greens policy. The Australian Jewish News. 9 December 2010. 9 May 2011.
  60. Book: Jerome Klassen. Gregory Albo. Empire's Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan. 2013-01-10. University of Toronto Press. 978-1-4426-1304-1. 407.
  61. Web site: 16 Million-Strong Organization in India Joins the BDS Movement. October 24, 2017. BDS Movement.
  62. Web site: Canadian Federation of Students adopts BDS motion. C. J. N.. Staff. November 20, 2018.
  63. Web site: Artists and Academics in Montréal Oppose Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement in Stand for Palestinian Rights . BDSmovement.net . 2021-11-04.
  64. Web site: 2021-05-18 . NDN Collective Decries Israeli Human Rights Violations & Colonial Violence in Palestine . 2022-08-17 . NDN Collective . en-US.
  65. Web site: Algemeiner . The . Communist Indian Student Group Endorses BDS, Targets Hewlett Packard . 2022-08-17 . Algemeiner.com . en-US.
  66. Web site: Membership . 2022-08-17 . Official Website :: Students' Federation of India . en-gb.
  67. Web site: 2022-06-10 . Palestinians Welcome Unanimous Vote By CLACSO to Endorse BDS . 2022-08-17 . BDS Movement . en.
  68. Web site: 2022-08-16 . BDS: Melbourne University students endorse boycott campaign . 2022-08-17 . Middle East Monitor . en-GB.
  69. Web site: Lawyers . National Conference of Black . 2021-06-01 . NCBL STATEMENT: THE ISRAEL & PALESTINE CONFLICT . 2022-08-20 . NCBL . en.
  70. Web site: California Green Party formally joins Israel boycott, divestment & sanctions movement Green Party of California (GPCA) . 2022-08-20 . www.cagreens.org.
  71. News: Anglican Church of S. Africa passes BDS resolution . 3 October 2019 . 20 August 2022 . Chernick . Ilanit . The Jerusalem Post . en-US.
  72. News: United Church of Christ Approves Divestment to Aid Palestinians . The New York Times . June 30, 2015 . 12 October 2022. The United Church of Christ, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States, overwhelmingly approved a resolution Tuesday calling for divestment from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation or control of Palestinian territories, and a boycott of products from Israeli settlements..
  73. FreeNorthNow. Northern Independence Party. 1643629672696016905. Westminster must end all arms sales to Israel. We support the activists who have taken it upon themselves to regularly blockade the factories producing these arms, and we support the BDS movement as an act of international solidarity.
    Free Palestine. 2/2. 6 April 2023. en-GB.
  74. News: Past and present Labour MPs square off in Hartlepool . Wolfe-Robinson . Maya . The Guardian . 2 April 2021 . 6 April 2023.
  75. Web site: On the Israeli offensive against Gaza and in solidarity with the Palestinian People . Fourth International . 11 August 2023.

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