BDS

Protesters outside G&B Packing Warehouse - shipper of weapons used for genocide by Israel
Domestic News

Anti-Genocide Activists Picket Largest Civilian Weapons Warehouse for the Israeli Military

December 14, 2025 fwstaff
By PAL-Awda NY Demonstration Follows Release of November Report Documenting 1000 Tons of Military Cargo Shipped Weekly from Jersey City Site On Friday, December 5 at  5:30 AM over 50 anti-genocide activists picketed the G&B […]
PAL-Awda boycott against Citibank launched at Citi's World HQ
Domestic News

Global Week of Action for Palestine Against Citibank Kicks Off Summer of Heat

August 28, 2024 fwstaff
By Terri Kay On Monday, June 10th, PAL-Awda NY/NJ: Palestinian Assembly for Liberation announced a Global Week of Action against Citibank, from June 10th to June 14th, calling on people across the US and the […]
WSU Medical School Professor Ijeoma Nnodim Opara
Domestic News

Detroit Wayne State U Faculty/Staff for Justice in Palestine Formed

June 19, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On June 4, hundreds of students, faculty, alumni and community members rallied on the campus of Wayne State University located in the Midtown District of Detroit. The purpose of the gathering was […]
Citibank - profiting off genocide against Paletinian people
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Citibank – Partner in Genocide

June 19, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Protests have been scheduled from June 10 to 14 against the giant Citibank which has assets of $2.9 trillion and which is a major financial supporter of the Israeli settler state. […]
UM sign at the encampment
Domestic News

Open Letter to The University of Michigan Regents and University Leadership

May 21, 2024 fwstaff
→ Sign here (if you are UM faculty, staff, alumni, or parent) May 4, 2024 Open Letter to The University of Michigan Regents and University Leadership: We are faculty, staff, alumni, and parents of students […]
Jewish students at U of M encampment call for divestment from Israel
Domestic News

The genocide exposes friends and foes at the University of Michigan

May 15, 2024 fwstaff
By Bilal Irfan, guest opinion The last few months have been a turbulent time for campuses across the United States as students, staff, faculty, and administrators grapple with the consequences of our nation-wide and institutional […]
Protestors on the steps of Clio Hall
Domestic News

An open letter to Princeton U President concerning minoritized student safety

May 7, 2024 fwstaff
Reprinted from the Daily Princetonian We,  the undersigned leaders, community members, and allies of cultural affinity groups of Princeton University — condemn in the strongest possible terms the University’s utter disregard for the safety and […]
International News

Palestinian BDS National Committee Statement on Ukraine

March 19, 2022 fwstaff
From the editors: The following statement is from the Palestianian BDS National Committee on the war in Ukraine. BDS leads a campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction apartheid israel because of genocide and settler-colonialism […]
Block the Boat NY-NJ action
International News

NYC/NJ activists picket Port of New York to block Israeli-operated cargo ship

July 30, 2021 fwstaff
By Terri Kay Elizabeth, New Jersey – Sunday, July 25 at 6am, about 100 pro-Palestine community activists in the New York metropolitan area picketed Israeli shipping giant ZIM in an attempt to block their cargo […]
Domestic News

International Block the Boat Campaign

June 28, 2021 fwstaff
BTB Shows the way to move BDS actions beyond individual consumer activism, striking blows with costly community/labor mass direct action initiatives By Terri Kay, a community organizer with Block the Boat Oakland and Block the […]