Boycott is a nonviolent tool that has been used by ordinary people countless times to hold countries responsible for atrocities when our governments fail to do so. In South Africa, the boycott movement helped bring about an end to the apartheid system. In the case of Israel/Palestine, it can do the same.

The Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign of New Zealand derives it's mandate from a legal judgment passed by the highest judicial body in the world, the International Court of Justice.

The Court advised that members of the International community have an obligation:

• Not to render aid or assistance to maintaining the situation created by the Wall Israel has built on Occupied Palestinian Land.
• To ensure the Wall's removal.
• Ensure Israel's compliance with International Law.

That was more than four years ago. Today, the Wall has almost been completed, resulting in the confinement of Palestinians in the West Bank into segregated Bantustans, isolating 78 villages.

At the same time, in flagrant violation of International Law, Israel continues to transfer part of its civilian population into the illegally Occupied West Bank.

John Dugard, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories stated :

"Israel’s defiance of international law poses a threat not only to the international legal order but to the international order itself. This is no time for appeasement on the part of the international community".

In 2005, inspired by the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, Palestinian civil society called for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it fully complies with International Law and recognises the fundamental human rights of the people of Palestine.

A specific call for cultural boycott of Israel was issued a year later, garnering wide support.

Among the many groups and institutions that have heeded the Palestinian boycott calls and started to consider or apply diverse forms of effective pressure on Israel are :

• the British University and College Union (UCU);
• the two largest trade unions in the UK; the Church of England;
• the Presbyterian Church (USA); prominent British architects;
• the British National Union of Journalists (NUJ);
• the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU);
• the South African Council of Churches;
• the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in Ontario;
• Aosdana, the Irish state-sponsored academy of artists;
• celebrated authors, artists and intellectuals led by John Berger;
• and Palme d'Or winner director Ken Loach.

We strongly urge you to uphold the values of freedom, equality and just peace for all by joining this growing boycott against Israeli apartheid

A personal boycott of Israeli products helps remove consumers from complicity with Israeli apartheid. As ethical consumers we can conduct our boycott ‘where we are at’, in whatever town or country.

The BIG campaign aims to promote a consumer boycott and to actively campaign against corporations selling Israeli goods.

A boycott is a refusal to deal commercially or otherwise with a country, firm, or individual. A party to a "primary boycott" is one, which refrains from trading with the targeted country. A "secondary boycott" is one in which parties to a boycott attempt to induce other countries to adhere to the boycott, often as a condition of continued trade relations with them. Similar to embargo and sanctions.

Primary Boycott is a way for people to influence policies of nations, companies or businesses over which they would usually have little influence.

A country's economy benefits and grows from consumer dollars. If that country in engaged in objectionable practices, our tacit consent should not be given to it. Purchasing such a country's exported goods provides this consent and financial assistance. The power consumers have is their dollars and the influence they exert comes from their consumer choices.

There is a nation in the Middle East that for the last 60 years has imprisoned, oppressed and brutalised 4.5 million people on the basis of race and religion.

This nation has engaged in both open and covert campaigns of indiscriminate violence, ethnic cleansing and land confiscation for exclusive use by a privileged religious group.

This nation harbours and sponsors terrorists, religious extremists and war criminals. It’s military leaders have been unable to visit Britain for fear of arrest.

It has kidnapped and imprisoned democratically elected members of a neighbouring Parliament, yet has openly racist and violent politicians elected into it’s own Parliament.

This nation has routinely violated the sovereignty of its neighbours, often decimating their infrastructure, and purposefully rendered swathes of land uninhabitable, with brutal military firepower.

It is in violation of hundreds United Nations Security Council Resolutions and its actions have widely been condemned by scholars worldwide.

It's military possesses undisclosed nuclear weapons and unmonitored facilities, and it remains a defiant non-signatory of the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty.

Yet, this nation enjoys the full and unwavering support of the United State of America, most of the European Union nations and many other Western countries.

This nation is not in the Axis of Evil and is not subject to economic nor diplomatic sanctions. It is not an Arab nation, nor a Muslim nation. It is neither Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt nor Saudi Arabia. It is not Jordan, Iran or Kuwait.

We are talking about Israel, the crimes against humanity that forged it's creation continue today, and elicit the phenomena of Middle-Eastern terrorism and Islamic extremist movements as a direct response.

This website supports the assertion that the continued existence of the State of Israel as the Jewish State, whose creation was forged by terrorism, is still reliant on terrorism. Despite all that may be read in the mainstream media, they are the real terrorists.

The conception of the State of Israel, as established by Zionist doctrine and ideology, is inherently a racist. We also assert that financial support, economic trade, advocacy and diplomatic relations lend legitimacy and tacit consent to the racism and inhumane nature of the manifest Zionist enterprise.