Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2026: Escalate BDS pressure now to free them all.

Key Points:

• On Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) reaffirmed solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners and called for escalated BDS campaigns targeting corporations like Microsoft, HP, and Cisco for their involvement in Israel’s human rights violations.
• Israel recently passed a racially targeted death penalty law applying only to Palestinian and other Arab prisoners, marking a dangerous legal escalation amid ongoing extrajudicial killings and systemic torture in Israeli prisons.
• A UN Special Rapporteur’s report labels Israel’s torture of Palestinians as a “state doctrine” and part of a genocidal, settler-colonial system, with international silence enabling ongoing psychological and physical abuses.
• Since October 2023, Israel has intensified arrests resulting in over 9,600 Palestinian prisoners, including children and administrative detainees, with many subjected to torture, medical neglect, and extrajudicial killings inside and outside prisons.
• The BNC urges global supporters to boycott and pressure Microsoft, HP, and Cisco, highlighting these companies’ roles in Israel’s prison system and repression, and calls for comprehensive sanctions against Israel to end its regime of apartheid and occupation.