1. The Academic Boycott Debate
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   An excellent summary and commentary on a debate at Ryerson University about whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott because of its human rights violations.
   
2. Academic Boycott of South Africa
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   
3. An Action a Day
   Keeps Global Capitalism Away
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   
4. Assuming Boycott
   Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2017
   A collection of essays and seminars that looks at the history of boycott and divestment within activism. Examines a variety of cultural and academic boycotts around the world.
5. BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions 
   The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2011
   The case for a rights-based BDS campaign against Israeli occupation and apartheid.
6. Boycott
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons.
7. The Boycott
   Lafargue, Paul
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1901
   The boycott, which the bourgeoisie regards with sentimental tenderness when directed against the trade of its commercial rival, it considers as a crime when employed by the workers in defence of their livelihood. The mere blacklisting of a workshop by a trade union is an offence, in Europe as well as in America, punished by law and the infliction of civil damages, calculated to exhaust the treasury of the union and break down the power of resistance of the workers.
8. Boycott America: Are You Ready to Take On a Lone-Gun Superpower?
   Resource Type: Article
   Hit the superpower with a boycott the whole world can see, and that American power can really feel.
9. Boycott Derails Jerusalem Rail Line
   Rail Firm Pays Price for Link to Settlements
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   The very survival of the rail project is now in question after the boycott movement's successful lobbying. A Dutch bank, ASN, pulled its investments from Veolia in 2006, and the company lost a large contract in Sweden this year.
10. Boycott Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    It is clear to me that the only way to counter the apartheid trend in Israel is through massive international pressure.
11. Boycott the state, not just the settlements
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    West Bank settlements would not be viable without government aid, so boycotts should target the Israeli state as well.
12. The Call for Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment Against Israeli Apartheid
    Resource Type: Article
    Boycott Factsheet.
13. Calling All Radicals 
    How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
14. Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    A call for sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.
15. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
16. The Case for Academic Boycott
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Academic boycott targets Israel's intellectual leadership, the educated elite whose record consists largely of misinforming Israelis about their history, distorting their understanding of current conflicts, normalizing the racism of their society, and providing to the Israeli military and government the legal, technological, and political tools it needs to facilitate the continued theft of Palestinian land and the containment of its restive population.
17. Chávez, César
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (1927-1993).
18. Common Sense for Hard Times 
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
    
19. Companies that Profit from the Occupation
    Resource Type: Article
    Makes the case for action against companies that profit from the Israeli occupation, and identifies who those companies are.
    
20. A Concerted Effort From Europe Against Israeli Produce Exporter Agrexco
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant.
21. Condemnation Grows for Bipartisan Attack on Free Speech Rights of BDS Supporters
    Lawmakers urged to reject bill that would punish Americans for supporting boycotts of Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A pair of bipartisan bills targeting boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements appear to have widespread support in Congress, to the dismay of civil rights advocates who say the proposals are an attack on free speech.
22. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
23. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
24. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
25. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
26. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
27. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
28. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
29. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
30. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
31. Delano grape strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike, boycott, and secondary boycott led by the United Farm Workers (UFW) against growers of table grapes in California.
32. Did Leviev's Empire Succumb to Boycott?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The brave people who took to the streets to demand boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and Israeli companies have received a clear message that their efforts are not in vain. Private companies that seek to make easy profits in Palestine while ignoring the injustices and illegality of Israel's crimes there, will have to think twice about their investments. They may be required to pay a price in actual money for the moral deficit in their accounts.
33. Don't buy these grapes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    
34. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
35. GE boycott
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    
36. General Electric boycott
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    
37. Huerta, Dolores
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
38. If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists.
39. "If not now, when?" On BDS and 'singling out' Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    This is an edited version of a letter I've sent to a relative in the US who's been trying to figure out the BDS issue in the wake of the recent onslaught against the American Studies Association's decision to support the academic boycott.
40. Israel: Boycott, divest, sanction 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
41. Israel boycott may be the way to peace
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The non-violent international response to apartheid was a campaign of boycott, divestment and UN-imposed sanctions which enabled the regime to change without bloodshed. We should try to follow the same route to a just peace.
42. Israel Has Been 'Singled Out' in the US for a Very Long Time
    To whom much is given, much is expected
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The American Studies Association, the umbrella organization of academics devoted to the study of US literature, history and culture, recently voted to join the movement to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
43. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2014
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
44. Israel will withdraw only under pressure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    The overwhelming majority of the Jewish public has been determined since 1967 not to relinquish any territory except if forced to do so.
45. Israeli exports hit hard by Palestinian boycott, World Bank says
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has exacted a major cost on Israel's exports to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Even though the World Bank's report has modestly recognized so, they have failed to address any trace of occupation.
46. Jewish Peace Activists Defend German Critic of Israel Calling for a Boycott of Israel for its Treatment of Palestinians is not Anti-Semitic
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    More than 370 Jewish peace activists from around the world signed a statement defending German politician Hermann Dierkes against charges of anti-Semitism.
47. J.P. Stevens - Boycott Kit
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    This kit provides extensive background information on the organized boycott against J.P. Stevens and Company Inc. The boycott, now in its third year, was organized to bring wide attention to the unjust and dangerous working conditions in the 85 textile plants of J.P. Stevens. Over 45,000 women and men are employed by the multi-national corporation that operates mostly in North and South Carolina, U.S.A.
48. The Last Refuge
    Neve Gordon and the Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of the occupation is to take concrete means that will make the Israelis understand that the injustice they are perpetrating comes with a price tag.
49. Mkhuseli "Khusta" Jack and the Art of the Boycott
    27 Years Later, a South African Organizer Looks Back at a Tactic that Hastened the End of Apartheid
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A key figure in organizing a consumer boycott was the young South African Mkhuseli (Khusta) Jack, who recently discussed his experiences in that campaign with students and professors assembled for the 2013 Narco News Authentic School of Journalism.
50. Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1955
    A successful year-long protest against the segregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
51. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Robinson recounts the origins and sustaining force of the famous boycott led by Montgomery's African American women.
52. Naomi Klein Shows You Can Boycott Israel Without Cutting Off Dialogue Over Palestine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    An interview with Klein and Israeli publisher Yael Lerer on why boycotting Israel will pressure the country to live up to international law.
53. The Nestle Boycott
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
    For several years, the Nestlé corporation has been the focus of an international boycott protesting their promotion of infant formula in the Third World.
54. The Nonviolent History of American Independence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Often minimized in our history books, the tactics of nonviolent action played a powerful role in achieving American Independence from British rule. Benjamin Naimark-Rowse wrote, "the lesson we learn of a democracy forged in the crucible of revolutionary war tends to ignore how a decade of nonviolent resistance before the shot-heard-round-the-world shaped the founding of the United States, strengthened our sense of political identity, and laid the foundation of our democracy.'
55. An open letter from Jewish academics and elders to McGill's administration regarding false allegations of student anti-Semitism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    This letter was sent Nov. 13 to Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Christopher Manfredi, and Secretariat Board of Governors and Senate Maria Kontzidis.
56. The Organizer's Manual
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Practical suggestions for small-group and grassroots organizing, political self-e4ducation, mass education and communications, alternate community services, mass actions, legal and medical self-defense. Strategies for organizing high schools, universities, racial groups, women, the military, labor, the professions.
57. Our Generation
    Volume 9 Number 4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
    
58. Our Way to Fight 
    Peace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people to action, and the escalating risks they face in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The title is borrowed from a young Palestinian who makes and teaches film in the Jenin refugee camp. "This is my way to fight," he said. Like other people featured in the book, he is a peace activist. Like them he is also, in his own way, a freedom fighter. If a just peace can grow in this beautiful, hard land, the seeds for it will have been planted by people like these.
59. Palestinian Economic Boycott Hits Israeli Settlers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Israeli settlers are beginning to feel the bite of an economic boycott campaign launched by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against goods produced in the illegal Israeli settlements dotting the occupied West Bank.
60. Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
    All About Unions in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
61. A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of "Academic Freedom": In Defense of the American Studies Association
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Wald provides insight into the American Studies Association's decision to boycott Israeli universities and defends the group's decision against the backlash given by the media and academia.
62. The Politics of Nonviolent Action 
    Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique — illustrated with actual cases — within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
63. Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is emerging as one of the most important ways to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine.
64. A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
65. Resolutions Advocating a Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The Modern Language Association (MLA) Delegate Assembly voted in Philadelphia on two resolutions, for and against, of an academic boycott of Israel.
66. Sanctioning Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A useful guide to the background of apartheid and understanding current developments, particularly the success of the mass democratic movement in weakening racist policy.
67. Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It's Time
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation.
68. SNCC
    The New Abolitionists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1965
    An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
69. The Socialist Register 1982
    Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
70. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
71. Spain Excludes Settlement University from Academic Competition
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The "University Center of Ariel in Samaria" (AUCS) has been excluded from a prestigious university competition about sustainable architecture in Spain. With this move, Spain joins the growing number of European governments taking effective, even though preliminary, steps to uphold international law by boycotting or divesting from institutions and corporations involved in or profiting from Israel's illegal Wall and colonial settlements built on occupied Palestinian land.
72. Sporting Boycott of South Africa
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    
73. Statement by Jewish Activists and Organizations active in BDS against Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A Jewish response to the February 2011 Statement of Jewish Zionist Organizations on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
74. Statement of the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain Regarding Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    To increase the pressure for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories, and the removal of the separation wall and the illegal settlements, we will support a boycott (where trade union members should not put their own jobs at risk by refusing to deal with such products) of those goods and agricultural products that originate in illegal settlements -through developing an effective, targeted consumer-led boycott campaign working closely with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign -and campaign for disinvestment by companies associated with the occupation.
75. Stop Entertaining Apartheid Coalition (SEAC)
    Organization profile published 1986
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1986
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    
76. Support CUPE-Ontario's Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
    Resource Type: Article
    
77. Time for a New Divestment Campaign
    From South Africa to Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    We must see Israel with the same eyes as we saw South Africa in the apartheid years - as a racist nation deserving of international isolation and sanctions.
78. To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country's apartheid system. If international civil society is serious about urgently ending Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, including ending the occupation, then suspension of SWIFT transactions to and from Israeli banks offers an instrument to help bring about a peaceful resolution of an intractable conflict.
79. Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival's decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine.
80. A turning point for the US solidarity movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    We have learned that change will not come from above. It will and must come from the grassroots, the people, those who have nothing to lose but their prison walls, the daily humiliation of life as a refugee, a second- or third-class citizen, or a non-citizen.
81. The UK Is Among the World's Largest Suppliers of Weapons -- and Is Making Arms Boycotts Illegal
    Despite human rights abuses, the UK continues to sell arms to Israel and crack down on dissent.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Through 'open' trade conventions such as the Security & Policing (S&P) exhibition and closed events such as the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) fair, the UK allows local and international companies to showcase some of the world's most lethal weapons.
82. Update on Pakistan: After the "Emergency"
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    General Pervez Musharraf has “taken off the uniform” and lifted the emergency as of December 15th. But Labour Party Pakistan rejects the Musharraf’s claim that the emergency is lifted. It is “lifted” with the Constitution amended, and with all the repressive measures protected by a decree.
83. Veolia tries to bail out of one apartheid project, two to go!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    In 2005, just after the publication of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, Palestinians began calling for an international boycott campaign against Veolia, a company involved in the Citypass Consortium, a scheme to build a tramline on occupied territory in the West Bank. Veolia is a huge multinational, that arguably has the biggest financial commitment of any international company to Israel's colonisation of the West Bank.
84. The Wanted 18
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A claymation comic that showcases the BDS movement through the establishment of a Palestinian dairy co-operative in Beit Sahour.
85. We must speak out 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel.
86. Who Profits?
    Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry
    Resource Type: Database
    First Published: 2010
    In exposing companies and corporations involved in the occupation, we hope to promote a change in public opinion and corporate policies, leading to an end to the occupation.
87. Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    If singling out South Africa for an international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid regime.
88. Why Boycott Aroma?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2011
    Our boycott call is part of a larger movement by Palestinian civil society to find non-violent means to end the occupation and apartheid.
89. Why Is BDS A Moral Duty Today?
    A Response To Bernard-Henri Levy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The reality of the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
90. Why Israel? 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    A routine strategy of Israel's defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of 'humanitarian interventions' that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council -- sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
91. With A Little Help From Outside
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The world sees a great and ongoing injustice. They want a just Israel. They see an Israel that occupies and is clearly unjust, and they believe they should do something. We should thank them for this from the bottom of our hearts.
92. Yes to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel
    An Answer to Uri Avnery
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The BDS campaign was initiated by a broad coalition of Palestinian political and social movements. No Israeli who claims to support the national rights of the Palestinian people can, decently, turns his or her back to that campaign: after having claimed for years that "armed struggle is not the way," it will be outrageous that this BDS strategy will too be disqualified by those Israeli activists. On the contrary, we must all together join to "Boycott from Within" in order to provide Israeli support to this Palestinian initiative. It is the minimum we can do, and it is the minimum we should do.

Experts on Boicoteos in the Sources Directory

1. Electronic Intifada