List of people who support the BDS movement

List of people who support the BDS movement include those who have either voiced support for the BDS movement or for comprehensive boycotts against Israel. The list does not include people who support boycotting products from Israeli settlements but not from Israel. The year column denotes the year they most recently professed support for such a boycott.

Name Occupation Country Year Source
Howie Hawkins Politician and activist United States 2014 [1]
Brian Jones Actor and educator United States 2014 [1]
Henning Mankell Author Sweden 2010 [2]
Iain Banks Author United Kingdom 2013 [3]
Joel Harden Politician Canada 2017 [4]
Pete Seeger American folk singer and activist United States 2011 [5]
Steven Salaita Scholar and author United States 2014 [6]
Jake Lynch Journalist and academic Australia 2013 [7]
Miko Peled Writer and activist Israel 2014 [8]
Nurit Peled-Elhanan Philologist and professor of language Israel 2014 [8]
Michael Ratner Attorney United States 2014 [8]
Josh Ruebner Author and political analyst United States 2014 [8]
Antony Loewenstein Journalist Australian German 2014 [8]
Jennifer Loewenstein Freelance journalist United States 2014 [8]
Bertell Ollman Professor of politics United States 2014 [8]
Ilan Pappé Historian and activist Israel 2014 [8]
Hedy Epstein Political activist United States 2014 [8]
Samuel Farber Professor Emeritus of Political Science United States 2014 [8]
Cynthia G. Franklin Literary and cultural critic United States 2014 [8]
Lynn Gottlieb Rabbi United States 2014 [8]
Jeff Halper Anthropologist and activist Israel 2014 [8]
Adam Horowitz Screenwriter and producer United States 2014 [8]
Selma James Writer and activist United States 2014 [8]
Lenni Brenner Trotskyist writer United States 2014 [8]
Jonathan Beller Film theorist and culture critic United States 2014 [8]
Daniel Boyarin Historian of religion Israel 2014 [8]
Max Blumenthal Journalist United States 2014 [8]
John Williams Composer United States ? [9]
Adrienne Rich Poet and feminist United States ? [9]
John Greyson Director and activist Canada ? [9]
Udi Aloni Filmmaker and activist Israel ? [9]
Aharon Shabtai Poet and translator Israel ? [9]
Sarah Schulman Writer and gay activist United States 2013 [10]
Naomi Klein Author United States 2016 [11]
Judith Butler Philosopher and gender theorist United States ? [9]
Joan Wallach Scott Historian United States 2013 [12]
George Smith Biologist United States 2019 [13]
Cori Bush Politician United States 2020 [14]
Walid Raad Contemporary media artist United States 2019 [15]
Upendra Baxi Legal scholar India 2010 [16]
Vina Mazumdar Academic and activist India 2010 [16]
Praful Bidwai Journalist and political activist India 2010 [16]
Saba Dewan Documentary film maker India 2010 [16]
Jayati Ghosh Development economist India 2010 [16]
Githa Hariharan Writer India 2010 [16]
Zoya Hasan Academic and political scientist India 2010 [16]
Prabhat Patnaik Marxist economist and political commentator India 2010 [16]
Nandini Sundar Sociologist India 2010 [16]
Amin Husain Activist, adjunct professor United States 2015 [17]
As'ad AbuKhalil Professor of political science United States 2015 [18]
Egil Olsen Football manager Norway 2010 [19]
Colin Blakemore Neurobiologist United Kingdom 2002 [20]
Eva Jablonka Theorist and geneticist Israel 2002 [20]
Hilary Rose Sociologist United Kingdom 2014 [21]
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond Physicist and essayist France 2002 [20]
Jonathan Rosenhead Mathematician and activist United Kingdom 2014 [21]
Nicholas Mirzoeff Visual culture theorist United States 2015 [17]
Moshé Machover Mathematician United Kingdom 2014 [21]
Patrick Bateson Biologist United Kingdom 2002 [20]
Per Andersen Neuroscientist Norway 2002 [20]
Richard Dawkins Geneticist United Kingdom 2002 [20]
Stephen Hawking Physicist United Kingdom 2013 [22]
Steven Rose Neuroscientist United Kingdom 2014 [21]
William Dalrymple Historian United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Issa Amro Activist Palestine ? [24]
Jackie Walker Activist United Kingdom ? [25]
Omar Barghouti Activist Palestine 2013 [26]
Tariq Ali Activist, writer and journalist United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Miriam Margolyes Actor United Kingdom 2014 [21]
John Berger Art critic United Kingdom 2006 [27]
Russell Brand Comedian and actor United Kingdom ? [28]
Danny Glover Actor and film maker United States ? [28]
Alexei Sayle Comedian and actor United Kingdom 2014 [21]
Asif Kapadia Filmmaker United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Elia Suleiman Film director and actor Palestine 2006 [27]
Julien Temple Film and music video director United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Ken Loach Filmmaker United Kingdom 2017 [29]
Michael Radford Film director United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Mike Hodges Screenwriter United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Mike Leigh Film and theatre director United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Paul Laverty Screenwriter and lawyer United Kingdom 2017 [29]
Peter Kosminsky Writer, director and producer United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Phyllida Lloyd Film director United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Rebecca O'Brien Film producer United Kingdom 2017 [29]
Roger Michell Theatre, television and film director United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Sophie Fiennes Film director and producer United Kingdom 2006 [27]
Eduardo Galeano Journalist Uruguay 2006 [27]
Boots Riley Rapper United States 2014 [30]
Brian Eno Electronic musician United Kingdom 2006 [27]
Chuck D Rapper United States ? [31]
Don Martin[32] Rapper Norway ? [32]
Immortal Technique Rapper and activist United States ? [32]
Lauryn Hill Singer, songwriter and rapper United States ? [31]
Reem Kelani Musician United Kingdom 2006 [27]
Roger Waters Musician United Kingdom 2012 [33]
Tumi Molekane Rapper South Africa ? [32]
Liz Lochhead Poet United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Bonnie Greer Playwright United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Chris Williamson Politician United Kingdom ? [34]
Ilhan Omar Politician United States ? [35]
Mandla Mandela Politician South Africa ? [36]
Rashida Tlaib Politician United States ? [35]
Rozanne Foyer Trade union leader United Kingdom 2020 [37]
Desmond Tutu Archbishop South Africa ? [38]
Jimmy McGovern Screenwriter United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Leon Rosselson Songwriter United Kingdom 2006 [27]
Ahdaf Soueif Novelist and commentator Egypt 2014 [21]
Aminatta Forna Writer United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Andrew O'Hagan Writer United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Arundhati Roy Actor India 2010 [27][16]
Benjamin Zephaniah Writer United Kingdom 2015 [23]
China Miéville Writer United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Gillian Slovo Writer South Africa 2015 [23]
Hanan al-Shaykh Writer Lebanon 2015 [23]
Hari Kunzru Writer United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Junot Díaz Writer and creative writing professor United States 2014 [30]
Kamila Shamsie Writer United Kingdom 2019 [23][39]
Marina Warner Writer United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Mark Haddon Writer United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Michael Rosen Author and poet United Kingdom 2015 [23]
Mike Marqusee Writer United States 2014 [21]

See also

References
  1. "BDS Open Letter". Howie Hawkins for NY. 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2020. If you want to vote for BDS on November 4th, vote Green! Howie Hawkins and I are the only candidates running for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New York who have pledged to divest the state of New York from Israel's murderous occupation of Palestine.
  2. Robert Booth; Kate Connolly; Tom Phillips; Helena Smith (2 June 2010). "Gaza flotilla raid: 'We heard gunfire – then our ship turned into lake of blood'". The Guardian.
  3. Iain M. Banks. "Iain Banks: why I'm supporting a cultural boycott of Israel". I support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign because, especially in our instantly connected world, an injustice committed against one, or against one group of people, is an injustice against all, against every one of us; a collective injury.
  4. "Interview: Joel Harden on running for ONDP nomination in Ottawa-Centre". socialist.ca. 2 September 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2020. I said, “if I’m asked a question about what I think about BDS for example, I’m not going to pretend that that’s somebody I’m not. I’m going to say, on a personal level I support BDS.” It’s because I believe in justice for the Palestinian people, and I believe in justice for Arabs and Jews in the region.
  5. "Roger Waters voices support for Israel boycott". Haaretz. 6 March 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2011. Last week, American folk music legend Pete Seeger officially joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign - an international movement to pressure and sanction Israel through economic means.
  6. "How to practice BDS in academe". The Electronic Intifada. 27 May 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  7. Narunsky, Gareth; Kohn, Peter; Davis, Rebecca (7 November 2013). "Racism lawsuit against Lynch". The Australian Jewish News – AJN. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  8. "'Jews For Palestinian Right of Return' endorse American Studies Association boycott of Israeli academic institutions". Mondoweiss.net. 14 February 2014. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  9. The Case for Sanctions Against Israel. Verso Books. 2 May 2012. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-1-84467-803-7.
  10. "NYC 'Israeli Apartheid Week' kicks off: Queer scholar Sarah Schulman advocates BDS at LGBT Center".
  11. "Naomi Klein: I don't 'pick and choose' on BDS".
  12. Joan W. Scott (2013). "Changing My Mind about the Boycott" (PDF). Israel’s legal system rests on the inequality of Jewish and non-Jewish citizens; its childrenare regularlytaught that Arab lives are worth less than Jewish lives; its military interfereswith Palestinians’ access to university education, freedom of assembly, and the right to free speech; ... The hypocrisy of those who consider these to be democratic practices needs to be exposed.An academic andcultural boycott seems to me to be the way to do this.
  13. Ali Abunimah. "Nobel Prize winner calls for boycott of Israel physics contest". Smith has previously spoken in support of the BDS – boycott, divestment and sanctions – movement for Palestinian rights, including during his trip to Stockholm, Sweden, last December to pick up his Nobel Prize.
  14. Ali Harb (5 August 2020). "Cori Bush was attacked over BDS before election; she did not back down". "Cori Bush has always been sympathetic to the BDS movement, and she stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people just as they have stood in solidarity with Black Americans fighting for their own lives," her campaign said in a statement on Saturday.
  15. "German city retracts prize after artist refuses to denounce Israel boycotts".
  16. "India chapter to campaign against Israel".
  17. "Against Amnesia: The Cultural Boycott of Israel Matters". Hyperallergic. 12 February 2015.
  18. "Regarding the citation by Netanyahu of my characterization of the aims of BDS". I am making it clear that it is about how BDS should be and not about how it is now. I meant that FOR ME, BDS is about ending the Zionist occupation of Palestine completely.
  19. "Drillo Calls for Israel Boycott".
  20. "More pressure for Mid East peace". The Guardian. 6 April 2002. Would it not therefore be timely if at both national and European level a moratorium was called upon any further such support unless and until Israel abides by UN resolutions and opens serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians along the lines proposed in many peace plans, including most recently that sponsored by the Saudis and the Arab League.
  21. "Why our boycott campaign against Israel makes sense".
  22. "Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel". He has not announced his decision publicly, but a statement published by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine with Hawking's approval described it as "his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there".
  23. "More than 700 UK artists pledge to boycott Israel". The Electronic Intifada.
  24. "Where Do We Stand?".
  25. "Zionist Campaign Drives Black Jewish Activist Out of UK's Labour Party". Walker, a pro-Palestinian, Black Jewish woman and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement,
  26. Omar Barghouti , 'The BDS movement explained. Why I've boycotted Israel,' New York Daily News, 25 February 2013
  27. Israel boycott may be the way to peace, The Guardian letters, 15 December 2006
  28. "The Celebrities Who Support the Palestinian Cause". Arab America. 4 October 2017.
  29. "Award-Winning Filmmakers Donate Film Screening Proceeds to BDS Movement".
  30. "Artists and Intellectuals Including Junot Diaz, Chuck D, and Boots Riley Call for Boycott and Divestment from Israel".
  31. "Cultural Boycott: BDS Movement".
  32. "Boycott Israel - Immortal Technique, Don Martin, Tumi, Eltipo Este, Tonto Noiza (LYRICS)".
  33. For Waters' support of the BDS movement see: "Roger Waters voices support for Israel boycott". Haaretz. 6 March 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2011. For Waters' support of the Gaza Freedom March see: Goodman, Amy (30 December 2009). "EXCLUSIVE ... Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Speaks Out in Support of Gaza Freedom March, Blasts Israeli-Egyptian "Siege" of Gaza". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  34. "Support BDS, End Arms Sales to Israel: Chris Williamson MP".
  35. "US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib declines Israel visit over 'oppressive conditions'". Deutsche Welle. 16 August 2019.
  36. "My grandfather, Nelson Mandela, helped end apartheid. Let's do the same for Palestine".
  37. "Open letter: Scottish civil society calls for sanctions against Israel".
  38. "Desmond Tutu urges boycott of 'apartheid' Israel".
  39. Flood, Allison (19 September 2019). "Kamila Shamsie's book award withdrawn over her part in Israel boycott". The Guardian.
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