This movement has also garnered support from various prominent figures like Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who referred to Israel as the “last apartheid state in the world.”
Mandela asserted, “We can’t accept a worse treatment of Palestinians than that experienced by animals, from those who claim to be victims of the Holocaust.”
Apart from Mandela, other figures supporting the movement include Noam Chomsky, a leading linguist and philosopher, Malala Yousafzai, an education activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Roger Waters, a musician and former member of Pink Floyd, Angela Davis, a civil rights activist and feminist, and Arundhati Roy, a writer and social activist.
In addition to these individuals, the movement is also supported by various organizations and civil society groups like the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS), a global campaign aiming to isolate Israel economically, politically, and culturally, Human Rights Watch (HRW), an independent human rights organization, Amnesty International (AI), a London-based human rights organization, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the world’s largest humanitarian aid organization, and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international medical humanitarian organization.
Many countries and governments sympathetic to the Palestinian people, such as Iran, Turkey, Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Pakistan, have lent their support to this movement.
Some have even taken concrete steps like severing diplomatic ties with Israel, expelling Israeli ambassadors, sending humanitarian and medical aid to Gaza, and convening emergency sessions of the UN Security Council.
The mass media, both local and international, such as Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Le Monde, El Pais, The Hindu, The Jakarta Post, and Kompas, have been attentive to the developments and impacts of this movement.
The hope is that this movement can exert pressure on Israel to cease its aggression against the Palestinian people while paving the way for a peaceful and just solution to the long-standing conflict.
Through this movement, the aspiration is for increased global awareness and solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people, granting them the rights to freedom, sovereignty, and dignity as a nation.
