| Today, we mark a milestone in the liberation struggle of the Indigenous people of Palestine, as the Palestinian-led nonviolent, anti-racist BDS movement completes 20 years of grassroots organizing and building intersectional people power. In the midst of Israel’s livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, we are too grieved and too enraged to celebrate the phenomenal BDS impact. But we owe it to every single Palestinian, especially our people in Gaza, to reaffirm our unbreakable commitment to march on until Israel’s regime of oppression is dismantled. This obliges us to recognize and share with the world the immense people power we have collectively built over these two decades and the many milestones we have reached towards isolating genocidal Israel as a rogue state that threatens humanity at large. On the 20th anniversary of the BDS movement, we have much to share, but we’ll highlight only 20 of the most inspiring impacts the movement has achieved, or contributed to, in coalition with and active participation of our cherished global partners and allies. |
| The BDS movement has created an unprecedented level of global solidarity coordination and pressure to end Israel’s impunity and global complicity in its crimes. The legendary resistance and resilience (sumud) of our people, especially in Gaza, but also in Jerusalem, Jenin, Akka, Haifa, and in refugee camps across historic Palestine and in exile, nourish our hope and boundless determination. We must escalate pressure and peacefully disrupt all forms of complicity to contribute to ending Israel’s unspeakable genocide and to dismantling its regime of settler-colonial apartheid. Only then, can we enjoy freedom, justice, equality, and what Desmond Tutu calls “our full menu of rights.” |
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