There’s been another setback for the apartheid state of Israel, this time in Britain.

The Black Students Campaign (BSC), which represents over one million Asian, Caribbean, African and other ethnic minority students, has voted by an overwhelming majority in favour of a motion (see appendix below) calling for the boycott of, divestment from and sanctions against Israel.

The BSC is a self-governing sub-section of the National Union of Students, which represents the majority of student unions in Britain.

The motion, No. 403, commits the BSC to lobby for an “academic boycott of Israeli universities”, to “support the annual Israeli Apartheid Week initiative”, and advocates for divestment from “key BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] target companies, including G4S, Veolia and Eden Springs”.

It also describes “Israeli expansion on Palestinian land” as “a settler-colonial project, predicated on the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of its indigenous people”.

Mindful of Israel’s persecution of its Palestinian citizens, its occupation of Palestinian lands and its history of aggression against its neighbours – in 1956, 1967, 1978, 1982, 2006, 2008 and 2012, among others – the motion slams the “ongoing 66-year long occupation of Palestine, Israel’s multitude of human rights and international law violations, its flagrancy and unaccountability to the international community”.

Slowly but surely, the world is waking up to the longest-running lie that is Israel.

We salute the Black Students Campaign for its principled stand on the side of justice.