Our Impact
Thanks to strategic campaigning and the tireless work of people of conscience and organisations across the world, the BDS movement's impact is increasing substantially. This page features some of its major direct and indirect impacts. You can also look at this resource by Visualizing Palestine for a more detailed record of the movement's successes.
Indicators of the BDS movement's Global Impact: July - December 2024
Thank you for taking action and for continuing to stand in solidarity with our nonviolent struggle against Israel’s genocide and underlying regime of apartheid, settler colonialism, and military occupation and for the Palestinian people’s freedom, justice, and equality!
Indicators of the BDS movement’s global impact: Q4 2023 & Q1 2024
Since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, the impact of the BDS movement has grown substantially and has begun to influence some states.
BDS impacts in times of genocide
Today marks 19 years since the historic call from the largest Palestinian coalition to boycott, divest from, and impose sanctions on Israel’s regime of military occupation, settler-colonialism, apartheid, and now genocide. Over the last 19 years, the BDS movement has built a massive network worldwide, supported by trade unions, farmers’ coalitions, and racial, social, gender and climate justice movements, together representing tens of millions.
18 Years of BDS. 18 Years of Impact in Turning Darkness into Light
Today marks 18 years since the historic call from the largest Palestinian coalition to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel’s regime of military...
2022 Round Up: 30 impacts for the Palestinian liberation struggle!
In 2022, Palestinians faced one of the bloodiest years on record. Yet, despite apartheid Israel’s intensified repression, massacres and ethnic...
BDS impacts so far in 2021
In a year marred by Israeli apartheid brutality and massacres, Palestinian hope and unity shine through. So too does the outpouring of global support...
Top 20 impacts of our collective work for justice in 2020
Despite its massive investment of financial, political, diplomatic, propaganda and intelligence resources in its war against the BDS movement, Israel...
20 Highlights of BDS Impact in 2019
The anti-Palestinian Trump Administration and Boris Johnson government are more than ever directly engaged in Israel’s desperate war of repression on...
18 Highlights of BDS Impact in 2018
Here are 18 highlights of direct and indirect BDS impact from 2018. We celebrate the extraordinary strides that the BDS movement for Palestinian...
Top 30 BDS Moments of 2017
GOVERNMENT & POLITICAL PARTIES A UN-commissioned report established that Israel has imposed a system of apartheid on the entire...
BDS impact round up for 2016
The year 2016 will be remembered by Palestinians and supporters of Palestinian freedom, justice, and equality for, among other things, Israel’s year of...
BDS: full 2015 round-up
January - Israel shows growing concern at growth of BDS US student divestment movement flourishes The student government at the University of...
The amazing things we achieved together in 2014
For Palestinians and people of conscience everywhere, 2014 will be remembered as the year in which Israel carried out its bloodiest ever massacre of...
Round-up of BDS successes in 2013
This round-up was published in conjunction with a Palestinian BDS National Committee statement looking ahead to 2014. During 2014, the BDS movement...
BDS roundup: Selection of 2012 victories
January: Noted French philosopher and political theorist Jacques Rancière canceled a visit to lecture at Tel Aviv University after an appeal by...
New PACBI Newsletter: Risala March 2011
PACBI, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, recently released its March 2011 newsletter, with many informative...
New PACBI Newsletter: Risala December 2010
PACBI, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, recently released its December 2010 newsletter, with many...
PACBI Newsletter #1 - 2009 BDS Highlights
The Year 2009 has proved to be a watershed in the growth of the global BDS movement. The massive lethal Israeli war of aggression on the...
BDS Newsletter #01 – February 2008
The BDS National Committee has issued an appeal to international civil society, calling for a boycott of Israel at 60 celebrations. Adopted from a PACBI initiative and supported by 104 organizations, this appeal is the core call from Palestine for 2008. It is backed by a wide range of Palestinian civil society groups, trade unions, popular committees and political organizations from across historic Palestine as well the diaspora.