Students across the US are demanding that their universities and colleges disclose their ties to the Israeli regime, and at the same time divest from them.

Four Norwegian universities have decided to suspend ties with Israeli universities they deem complicit in the Israeli regime’s genocidal war in Gaza.

The US giant food chain McDonald’s and coffee chain Starbucks both blamed pro-Palestine boycott campaigns for slower sales after they saw grassroots protests over their pro-Israeli stance in the Gaza war.

Amid the global anti-Israel boycott campaign over the genocide in Gaza, American multinational fast food and coffee chains such as McDonald’s and Starbucks have suffered major losses.

“Several markets in the Middle East and some outside the region are experiencing a meaningful business impact due to the war,” the burger chain stated on LinkedIn.

If the anti-BDS bill makes it onto the statute book, it will prevent public bodies across the UK from adopting their own approach to international relations, which represents an assault on local democracy, writes former British MP Chris Williamson

The international pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement calls for the boycott of German sportswear company Puma over sponsorship of the Israel Football Association.