A petition sponsored by the BDS National Committee (BNC)
Sign the petition addressed to UNGA President H.E. Dr Khalilur Rahman and demand apartheid Israel be suspended from the UN, just as apartheid South Africa was once suspended.
Also, for anyone interested in following the United Nations General Assembly General Debate of the 81st UNGA that opened today, here is the official schedule. You can see morning and afternoon sessions (see the tabs) live-streamed, with speeches by the heads of UNGA member states delivered in realtime, watch archived videos, as well as see the schedule of the order of countries that will appear over the entire General Debate through September 28. They add the specific countries into the schedule one day in advance. This morning Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva was the 3rd speaker, U.S. President Donald Trump the 4th, Jordan’s King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein the 5th, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the 6th, and Qatar’s Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani the 8th. Note that President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran will be the 5th speaker in tomorrow morning’s session, and President Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón of Spain will be the 15th speaker in tomorrow afternoon’s session.
And BTW, there is another petition similar to the new BNC one that was initiated in June 2025 and authored by Nelson Hadad, Former Chilean ambassador to Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and Ecuador and Former professor in the Department of International Law at the University of Chile Law School and I’m guessing was targeting the 80th UNGA that began in September 2025. I just learned that it is still active and has almost 77,000 signatures, but they are currently being added very slowly if at all. OTOH, the number of signatures on this new BNC petition has been growing rapidly over the day today shortly after the BNC announced it, and it is addressed to the new UNGA president. Does anyone know if the BNC doesn’t support Hadad’s petition, and if so why not? My take is that Hadad comes from the establishment while BNC aligns with the resistance. And I guess there’s no harm in having more than one petition.
~ Janet 