• 15 minutes of interruption at Bozar, 70 years of colonization in Palestine

    Posted on May 25, 2018

    We are reprinting below, in English and the original French, a press release issued by BDS activists in Brussels who disrupted a performance of the Philadelphia Orchestra on Thursday, 24 May.  The disruption comes amid an ongoing and active campaign by Philly Don’t Orchestrate Apartheid, which has organized open letters, actions and a series of […]

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  • Belgian students vote in favor of Israel boycott

    Posted on June 1, 2013

    The JTA  reported on June 1 that a Belgian student association voted in favor of an academic boycott of Israel. In a vote last month, the general council of the Federation of French-speaking Students in Belgium, or FEF, adopted a motion calling for “a freezing of relations with Israeli universities,” the Belgian newspaper Le Soir reported Wednesday. […]

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  • Belgian Trade Union Federation Adopts Boycott!

    Posted on July 8, 2010

    [Motion passed by FGTB Centrale Generale/ABVV Algemene Centrale on 3 June 2010] Decent work is impossible under military occupation On May 31st, the Israeli army attacked a convoy with 10,000 ton of humanitarian aid on its way to the Gaza-strip. Among the unarmed campaigners, at least 10 people got killed and 30 people were wounded! […]

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  • Palestinians lodge criminal complaint against Israeli leaders in Belgian court

    Posted on June 27, 2010

    24 June 2010 In Brussels, 14 Gaza-born Palestinians – one of them a Belgian citizen – have filed a criminal complaint against 14 current and former Israeli leaders for allegedly committing war crimes and crimes against Humanity during the 2008/09 Gaza war. The list includes Defense Minister Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and […]

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  • H&M Protest in Brussels on May 15th

    Posted on May 18, 2010

    To commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the Nakba, the COordination Boycott Israí«l (COBI) in Belgium had planned to organise a march through Brussels city centre, but remarkably the city denied a permit for this. In tune with this silencing of protest, activists on May 15 marched silently with lips sealed through the main shopping street […]

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  • H&M Protest in Brussels on April 17th

    Posted on April 20, 2010

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  • Report Back: Belgian activists do a supermarket sweep!

    Posted on April 1, 2010

    La “Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine” a marqué la journée mondiale d’action B.D.S. (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) du 30 mars 2010 par une action symbolique contre la politique de la chaí®ne de magasins COLRUYT, qui a récemment fait de la présence dans ses rayons de produits israéliens un argument publicitaire. Cette action pacifique a eu lieu dans un magasin […]

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  • Belgium holds a Boycott Israel protest in supermarket

    Posted on December 19, 2009

    Friday, 18 December 2009 Click on link above to listen to the protest. As the Gaza convoy worked its way across Europe, citizens in Brussels held a Boycott Israeli products protests in a supermarket on 28/11/2009 in Bruxelles.

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  • Belgian campaign targets bank financing Israeli settlements

    Posted on April 1, 2009

    Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 1 April 2009 In a remarkably short period of time, activists in Belgium have built a strong basis for the campaign “Israel colonizes — Dexia funds,” asking the bank to divest from its subsidiary Dexia Israel because of its financing of the expansion of illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian […]

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