The European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP), a network of solidarity groups and NGOs, is calling on supporters of Palestinian rights to lobby their MEPs to vote against a new EU-Israel trade protocol. Read more about Activists in Europe urged to lobby MEPs to vote against new EU-Israel trade protocol
The Socialists and Democrats (S&D) grouping issued its statement in response to the narrow defeat of an effort to block a new EU-Israel trade pact Read more about Israeli settlement products are illegal, says European Parliament's second biggest group
Issues first raised by boycott, divestment and sanctions movement are now being taken up by European governments. Read more about EU considering ban on settlement trade, Israeli media reports
Private security giant turns into a toxic brand in Britain. Read more about Energy firm ditches occupation profiteer G4S
Signatories to the open letter to the European Commission include Gérard Toulouse, a member of the French Academy of Science, Malcolm Levitt, a member of the UK Royal Society, and renowned philosopher Slavjoj Zizek Read more about 250 European academics call for exclusion of Ahava and Israeli arms companies from EU research projects
The father of Palestinian national footballer Mahmoud Sarsak, who is set to be released by Israel on 10 July following a three month hunger strike, has said that it is “unbearable” that Israel will host the tournament “while it routinely arrests, tortures, imprisons and kills Palestinians, including football players, without consequence” Read more about Whitewashing apartheid, European football federation claims Israel tournament "will bring people together"
A major victory for the campaign to boycott Israel has been achieved in Norway. Read more about Norway's pension fund divests from Israel's largest real estate firm
The Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions has issued a statement of solidarity with European trade unions resisting public spending cuts and job losses and restated its support for proactive BDS campaigns and a boycott of the Histadrut. Read more about Palestinian labor expresses solidarity with European trade unions resisting austerity, supporting BDS measures
The call for action came as it emerged that the European Parliament has decided not to renew a contract with the Danish-British corporation following pressure from campaigners for Palestinian rights Read more about Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S over role in Israeli jails
Over 50 actions took place across 23 countries Read more about Palestinian rights activists join BDS Global Day of Action commemorating Land Day