History
Symbols
Figures
BDS
Solidarity
100
The Catastrophe of 1948
What is the Nakba, where over 750,000 Palestinians were violently and forcibly expelled from their homes, becoming refugees outside and inside Palestine
100
This symbol was popularized after the Palestinian flag was first banned by the occupation in 1967
What is a Watermelon
The red, white, black and green of a watermelon match the Pan-Arab colors of the flag, though even this symbol was likely to be confiscated and penalized
100
Perhaps the most famous Palestinian resistance figure, woman, and member of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine)
Leila Khaled
100
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in contemporary Palestinian society, leads this global movement
What is the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement
100
Over 80 schools responded to the zionist occupation's genocide in Gaza with these nonviolent protests, with the express purpose of forcing their schools to disclose/divest from profiting off the genocide and their governments from supporting it
What are the Student Encampments
200
During election cycles within the occupation, candidates will often target and provoke Palestinians, like in 2000 when war criminal and PM candidate A Sharon stormed the Al Aqsa compound, then brutally attacked protestors, sparking this significant multi-year event
What is the Second Intifada
200
Part of the Palestinian flag, and the symbol of armed resistance codified by international law; al-Qassam Brigades used it in videos to identify targets
What is a Red Triangle
200
Born in Khan Younis, Gaza, this man spent 22 years in the occupation's prisons and studied them extensively, thereby becoming one of the most influential and effective strategic leaders of Palestinian resistance and an iconic martyr
Yahya Sinwar
200
These three tech companies are high-priority BDS targets
What is:
- Amazon (Worker-led campaign)
- Google/Alphabet (Worker-led campaign)
- Intel (BDS and Worker-led campaign)
- Microsoft (Worker-led campaign)
- Oracle (Worker-led campaign)
- Cisco (BDS and Partner-led Campaign)
- HP (BDS and Partner-led Campaign)
- Palantir (BDS and Partner-led Campaign)
- IBM
- Dell
- Meta
- Motorola Solutions
200
This famous anti-zionist civil rights activist visited Gaza and occupied Palestine shortly before his assassination in 1965
Who is Malcolm X
300
The Palestinian National Council set these 5 "constants" in 1977 as the uncompromising principles for Palestinian liberation moving forward
What is The Thawabit (Thawabit al-Wataniya al-Falastiniya)
Right of Resistance in all its form; Right of Return for all Palestinians; Right of Self-Determination; 1 Palestinian State with Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as the capital
Rejecting all colonialism, normalization, occupation; Restitution and compensation
300
A 10-year-old boy created by the assassinated artist/cartoonist Naji al-Ali represents identity, insurgency, refusal and struggle
Who is Handala
300
This revolutionary Palestinian author, journalist and political figure was involved in both the Arab Nationalist movement and Arab Marxism; he's best known for his written work, beginning the era of "resistance literature," and a viral interview given on behalf of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine)
Who is Ghassan Kanafani
Faris Faris (pseudonym, also accepted)
300
Many educational and cultural boycotts are enacted to combat this - the participation in any project, initiative or activity that forces Palestinians and their occupiers on the same platform, based on a false pretense of parity between oppressors and the oppressed, which contributes to the unjust and dehumanizing conditions settler colonialism places on Palestinians
What is normalization
BDS targets complicity - normalization is intellectually dishonest and morally reprehensible, used to whitewash crimes and force compromise
*Most educational and cultural activities, individuals and organizations do also have financial ties to the occupation as well
300
This South African leader and human rights activist was one of the first to label the zionist occupation as an "apartheid regime" and harshly criticized their systemic human rights violations; it was revealed in 1993 he was spied upon by the ADL
Who is Archbishop Desmond Tutu
400
These nonviolent protests in Gaza demanding the right of return & the end of the blockade lasted nearly two years, where over 6,000 Palestinians were shot by occupation snipers
What is The Great March of Return
400
Many families brough this item with them as refugees and have kept them ever since as proof Palestine is their home
What is a Key
400
The cartoonist responsible for creating Handala, the 10-year-old boy made refugee who turned his back on foreign influences to Palestinian self-determination
Naji al-Ali
400
In a widely quoted stance on both civil disobedience and BDS support, this Palestinian journalist and therapist stated in the 2024 film "Where Olive Trees Weep":
"If you at least stop supporting the machine; if the machine is ostracized then we can keep going, because nothing in the world is going to stop the people in Jerusalem, nothing in the universe will stop them; but we need you. We need you, if you can't be our voice, just to at least not put a penny that goes to the bullet that shoots our children."
Who is Ashira Darwish
400
"Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance" was found in the cell of this Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party after his assassination in San Quentin prison; an art exhibit honoring him and his shared struggle with Palestinian prisoners made its way to Gaza in August 2022
Who is George Jackson
Art Exhibit: George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine"
500
December 8, 1987: Occupation military truck ran over a line of Palestinian cars at the entrance of Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, sparking mass protests and this shaking off
What is the First Intifada
500
The three patterns defining a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh
What are:
Bold lines = trade routes, economic & cultural significance
Fishnet pattern = ties to the Mediterranean sea
Olive leaves = deep connection to the land and the oldest olive trees in the world
500
The Christian founder of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine)
Who is Georges Habash
500
The BDS movement's targets are split into these three sections
What are:
1. Consumer boycott priority targets: All the corporations whose business with Israel aids in its ongoing genocide, apartheid, or illegal occupation may be complicit in serious breaches of international law and, therefore, face liability for the company, its executives, and its board members
2. Organic boycott targets: not initiated by the BDS movement. BDS supports these boycott campaigns because these companies, or their branches or franchisees in Israel, have openly supported apartheid Israel and/or provided generous in-kind donations to the Israeli military amid the current genocide
3. Pressure targets: actively calls for pressure campaigns against these targets. This includes boycotts when reasonable alternatives exist, as well as lobbying, peaceful disruptions, social media pressure, strategic litigation, etc.
500
This entity visited, embedded, and allied with the PFLP in the 1960s and 70s
What is the Japanese Red Army (JRA)