Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions
The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) is a global Palestinian led campaign to end international support of Israeli apartheid and colonialism. Inspired by the South African apartheid struggle, BDS uses public pressure to demand justice.
Calls for individuals and community members to engage in consumer boycotts of Israeli products, services, institutions and international services that operate in or profit from Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.
Boycott
The public demand for companies, institutions, pension funds, and organisations to withdraw investments from companies that are complicit in the occupation or that violate Palestinian human rights.
Divestment
Push and demand Governments to hold Israel accountable by ending military trade and free-trade agreements, as well as suspending and banning business with illegal Israeli settlements.
Sanctions
BDS on Campus
We call for the University of Queensland Administration to uphold to Student Union’s demands to uphold the BDS framework on campus. BDS Youth Magandjin vows to uphold students’ demands for the permanent closure of the Boeing centre on campus, and complete divestment from the apartheid state through economic, weaponry and monetary means.
#UQAparthiedFreeZone
Part of our fight for BDS on campus includes an email campaign to the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology. Queensland universities are complicit in the global arms industry, and we, as students, staff, alumni and community members, must demand change.
BDS Youth Magandjin is calling on UQ and QUT to end their ties with Lockheed Martin and weapons manufacturers implicated in violations of international law.
Despite presenting themselves as institutions committed to social responsibility, these universities maintain research partnerships, investments and industry relationships with corporations linked to the production of weapons used in Israel's assault on Gaza.
Students, staff, alumni and concerned community members are urged to sign the open letter and add their voice to the growing call for accountability.
Join us in demanding that our universities uphold their stated values and sever ties with corporations profiting from war.