BDS the PIG (Pyscho Israeli Government) and all their Enablers!

History of B(Boycott)D(Divest)S(Sanction), the following links give succinct historical information on the use of BDS as an effective tool to fight injustice and how to get started supporting same.  Oh and yea, all this applies to Israel's enablers too!!!

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If you want to actually help people in Gaza, don’t just block celebs. Do BDS

As we saw in South Africa in the 1990’s, divestment can be a powerful strategy to effect change in seemingly unchangeable institutions. Divestment led to three years of successful negotiations that changed history and helped create the opportunity for a former political prisoner to become the nation’s first ever Black president.

Today, students at campuses across the world are standing up to demand their colleges and universities use the power of their purse to divest from companies that support the Israeli government’s war against the civilian population in Gaza.

Weapons contractors thrive in a world of endless war and conflict, which is why students at campuses such as Cornell and Yale are protesting for divestment specifically from weapons manufacturers.

Students at other campuses, such as Columbia University, are demanding divestment more generally from companies that are linked to the Israeli government in other ways as well, including Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Either way, students are demanding that their tuition money and their schools’ endowments no longer go to support Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

As we have seen in struggles for peace in earlier decades, the young are leading the way, insisting we look at the root causes of war embedded in our economy. Following the adage to “follow the money,” they are unraveling how institutions of higher learning misuse and abuse their financial and intellectual capital in support of the war machine.

Boycotts, divestments, and sanctions -- interventions collectively known as “BDS” -- are primarily economic tools that can be utilized successfully to achieve moral aims. As Bob Dylan sang, “Money doesn’t talk, it screams.” Let’s get money shouting out for peace and nonviolent solutions.

How Democratizing Universities Would Supercharge the Pro-Palestine Divestment Movement

Israel’s Campaign On College Campuses
It’s no secret that the discussion surrounding America’s Israel policy has become increasingly toxic and divisive. What has been kept under wraps – until recently – was just how much effort Israel has put into manipulating that discussion, especially on college campuses.

Since October, Israel has launched a government program known now as “Voices of Israel.” The program is a revival of Israel’s “Kela Shlomo” program, a controversial project that sought to carry out “mass consciousness activities” in the U.S. during the birth of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in the early 2000s. “Voices” is the result of Israeli attempts to create a “PR commando unit” using Israeli government funds to “provide a rapid and coordinated response against the attempts to tarnish the image of Israel around the world.”

The program works by sending millions of dollars to non-government organizations like the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and Hillel International to target campus debates over American-Israeli affairs. ISGAP research has been cited by Republicans as they try to remove college presidents from office, while Hillel has pushed back against pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. Groups have also pushed U.S. legislators to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which equivocates harsh criticism of the state of Israel with antisemitism.

BDS Targets

10 companies to boycott

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Capital One:  American bank specializing in credit cards, car loans, banking, and savings accounts
Capital One was part of a $500m loan deal with a consortium of lenders, into Elbit Systems Ltd, the Israeli weapons manufacturer.
Don't bank with Capital One, Don't work for Capital One and certainly Don't invest with Capital One

ExxonMobil, Chevron, TotalEnergies, BP, Shell, and Eni are “complicit in facilitating the supply of crude oil to Israel.”

Google/Amazon:  On April 16, Google workers with No Tech For Apartheid led historic, sit-ins at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office in Sunnyvale, CA and at Google’s NYC HQ to demand that Google end its $1.2B Project Nimbus contract with Israel.  In an aggressive, unprecedented act of retaliation, Google fired 50 workers,1 including non-participating bystanders.

Through Project Nimbus, Google is aiding & abetting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, which has so far killed, disappeared, and wounded over 100,000 Palestinians.3 Google workers don't want their labor to power Israeli apartheid or the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.  TIME Magazine revealed that Google is providing direct cloud/AI services to the Israeli Occupation Forces. Google has been lying about this fact to its own workers and the public for years.  What’s more, the corporation has deepened its partnership with Israeli military during the genocide in Gaza, signing a new $1M agreement.

Citibank
Helps arm Israel, finances weapons companies, and invests in the Israeli financial and tech sectors.  Citibank has a long history of colonial exploitation. It pushed for the U.S. government to occupy Haiti in 1915 in order to take control of the country’s resources. In 1987, it was the last bank to pull out of apartheid South Africa. A decade later, the bank became the first U.S. bank to enter the Israeli market, where it has only deepened its complicity since the start of the genocide.  Citibank was forced to stop doing business with South Africa during apartheid, and we can do the same with Israel and Citibank.  Citibank is the largest U.S. bank operating in Israel — but it’s more than that.

Citi is a core partner to Israel, at a time when even Israeli investment experts say they “see too many…similarities between South Africa during apartheid and present-day Israel.”  Since October 2023, Citi has financed a $500 million bond to Israel and billions of dollars in bonds to war profiteers Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.  The United Nations just called on Citibank, and other financial institutions invested in arms transfers to Israel, to stop immediately.  According to the UN, Citibank’s investment in Israeli arms makes them “directly linked to human rights abuses.”¹