The boycott S. Africa movement was supported by the ANC, the broad-based multiracial democratic front leading the resistance to apartheid. BDS is only supported by Jew-haters and their dupes.
The ANC supports BDS......among others.
Artists and writers
Pink Floyd musician
Roger Waters supports BDS.
[150][151] Alice Walker, author of
The Color Purple, has given her support to BDS and has rejected further editions of
The Color Purple from being published in Israel.
[152]
In September 2018, 140 artists (including six Israelis) signed an open letter in support of a boycott of Eurovision.
[153][154]
In July 2019, after the Open Source Festival in Düsseldorf disinvited the American rapper
Talib Kweli for refusing to denounce the BDS movement, 103 artists, including
Peter Gabriel,
Naomi Klein and
Boots Riley, signed an open letter condemning Germany's attempts to impose restrictions on artists who support Palestinian rights.
[155]
Political
The
African National Congress endorsed BDS in 2012. The party declared itself "unapologetic in its view that the Palestinians are the victims and the oppressed in the conflict with Israel".
[156] Following Israel's ground invasion of Gaza in 2014, the
Green Party of England and Wales's conference supported "active participation in the BDS movement".
[157] Scotland's
Green Party endorsed a boycott of Israel in October 2015.
[158] Members of the
Green Party of Canada voted to endorse BDS in August 2016, despite the objections of the party's leader and sole MP
Elizabeth May.
[159] In June 2018 the
Socialist International issued a Declaration expressing support for "Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli occupation, all the occupation institutions, and the illegal Israeli settlements including the total embargo on all forms of military trade and cooperation with Israel as long as it continues its policies of occupation and Apartheid against the Palestinian people".
[160][161] In 2014, an international Jewish group, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, issued a list of signatories endorsing the
American Studies Association academic boycott of Israel.
[162] The Israeli activist organization
Boycott from Within supports the BDS campaign. Boycott From Within regularly releases statements calling on musicians to cancel concerts scheduled in Israel.
[163] After the German parliament declared that the BDS movement was antisemitic, a group of 60 Israeli academics responded with a letter that criticized the motion and said it was part of a larger effort to delegitimize supporters of Palestine.
[164]
Trade unions
The
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) supports the campaign for BDS against Israel, fully endorsing it in July 2011.
[165] During the
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, COSATU vowed to "intensify" their support for the campaign, picketing
Woolworths for stocking Israeli goods.
[166]
In April 2014, the
UK's National Union of Teachers, the largest teacher's union in the EU, passed a resolution backing boycotts against Israel.
[167] In July of that year, the UK's
Unite the Union voted to join BDS.
[168]
In April 2015, the
Confédération des syndicats nationaux, Quebec, Canada, representing 325,000 in nearly 2,000 unions, voted to join the campaign for BDS and support a military embargo against Israel.
[169]
On 11 September 2019, the British
Trades Union Congress passed a motion titled "Palestine: supporting rights to self-determination", called for the prioritization of “Palestinians’ rights to justice and equality, including by applying these principles based on international law to all UK trade with Israel”, and declared its opposition to “any proposed solution for Palestinians, including Trump’s 'deal', not based on international law recognising their collective rights to self-determination and to return to their homes”.
[170]
etc. etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions