[ASA_PEWS] BDS session

[Christopher Chase-Dunn]

** GATS (American Sociological Association section on Global and
Transnational Sociology) Virtual Panel:* *Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions:
Global Perspectives *

Nov 17, 2025 12:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time ; Pacific time 9 am.

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Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as a means of bringing
international pressure to bear on rogue states was one of the instruments
used in solidarity with the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in South Africa in the
1980s. Following the second Palestinian Intifada, Palestinian civil society
actors issued their own comprehensive BDS call as a means for international
civil society actors to bring pressure to bear on the Israeli state to end
its occupation of Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, implement the
right of return of Palestinian refugees, the overwhelming majority of the
Palestinian population today, expelled from their homes and lands in the
parts of Palestine conquered by the incipient Israeli state in 1948, and
equality for those Palestinians who remained to become the non-Jewish
indigenous Palestinian minority in the Jewish state that was established on
their homeland. In the two-decades since the call was initially made, and
with the acceleration of the Israeli settler-colonial assault on
Palestinians in the aftermath of October 7th, 2023, that the Independent UN
Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories deemed
amounts to the crime of genocide in September 2025, BDS has become an
increasingly important instrument deployed by global civil society as a
means to further the struggle for Palestinian liberation from Israeli
settler-colonialism. This panel will explore the question of BDS in the
past and present from global perspectives.

*Speakers*

The Role of BDS Against Apartheid South Africa and Settler-Colonialism in
Occupied Palestine Salim Valley, University of Johannesburg

>From Solidarity to Boycott: Academic Mobilization for Palestine in Morocco

Soraya El Kahlaoui, Institut français du Proche-Orient, Palestine

Sport Boycotts and BDS: Grassroots Mobilization and Internationalism

Noor Nieftagodien, University of the Witwatersrand

Academic Boycotts and Academic Freedom

Rana Sukarieh, American University of Beirut

Reflections on BDS for Palestine Solidarity from Durban, South Africa

Lubna Nadvi, University of KwaZulu Natal

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