Boycotts, Divestment, Sanction (BDS) Statement

A message from Jo Fallshaw—owner of Fallshaw Group

Fallshaw Group is part of the International BDS (boycotts, divestments and sanctions) movement, where companies of good conscience refuse to buy and sell to Israeli owned companies (and companies and organisations facilitating the illegal military occupation) while they are in breach of the United Nation’s resolutions and the International Court of Justice and Internation Criminal Court rulings regarding genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

However, we are conscious that sometimes Palestinian companies operate from Israel-Palestine and there are some Israeli companies who have active and deliberate policies to foster multiculturalism and equality who have no part in Israel’s actions. We do not penalise companies who share our human rights values.

If you are an Israeli or Palestinian company that has tangible human rights policies and practices, then please call or email us and we’ll have a conversation and make sure you are not subject to collective punishment in our trading policies.

For the avoidance of doubt, we recognise and value the many Jewish Voices for Peace and are grateful for their friendship and solidarity. Our criticism is solely directed to the actions of the State of Israel and are in no way antisemitic.

We wish for peace and good will to all.

On a personal note

I am horrified by the man-made famine that Gazans are suffering. I note that starving children are not only at risk of dying but also having permanent cognitive damage and damage to internal organs. Starving children are much more prone to disease – and the deliberate destruction of Gaza's water distribution, sanitation, housing and healthcare systems means disease is now rife.

Israel and the US implemented a total blockade of Gaza on 2nd March 2025. They blocked ALL food, water, medicine, healthcare supplies, fuel and other goods for 3 months! On the 3rd of June they started to allow starvation rations in – deliberately restricting calorie intake, continuing to ban infant formula, milk powder, fresh and other nutritious food; instead putting Gazans onto a diet predominantly comprising dry starches. Breast feeding mothers cannot produce milk when they are starving – so the banning of infant formula is a particularly egregious war crime.

The US-Israeli 'aid delivery system' has been described by the UN has described as "an abomination" and "a death trap". Israeli soldiers literally line the access roads approaching the Death Traps and massacre aid seekers. The average number of people killed by Israeli soldiers near aid sites has averaged 23 per day for the first 24 days of the opening of the Israeli-US Death Traps.

Israel has forced Gazans, under pain of death, to 'evacuate' 82% of Gaza (and are completing the process of turning Northern and Central Gaza into rubble), the residual of the 2.3 million Gazans that have not yet been killed (announced by Trump to be "1.8 or 1.9 million people") have been forced into crowded tent cities without sanitation or access to clean water in the South of Gaza.

The remote location of aid forces people to walk up to 30km every week (which depletes their energy and the benefit of the meagre calories). In addition to the arduous journey, residents must travel under the constant threat of bombardment and targeting by Israeli forces. This makes aid inaccessible to the starving, the sick, and the elderly.

Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu, has publicly stated that the displacement of the population from the Gaza Strip is one of his government’s conditions for halting military operations in the enclave. Bezalel Smotrich, Finance Minister and member of the Security and Political Cabinet, declared that the Israeli army is working to demolish all buildings in the Strip and to crowd the population into a narrow section of Rafah as a step toward their expulsion (ethnic cleansing) from the enclave and the consequent Israeli takeover of it.

All people of good conscience should be speaking up to stop this catastrophe.
'Never again' meant 'never again' for everyone.