The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a national Washington D.C. based organization & coalition, has signaled major shifts in their BDS work over the past few years. The most recent one came in September 2009 at their 8th Annual National Organizers’ Conference.
From their conference report:
Delegates also voted to endorse the principle of extending our BDS work to cultural and academic boycott campaigns and to non-U.S. corporations as well by endorsing the Stolen Beauty campaign against the Israeli cosmetics company Ahava for its profiting from Israeli occupation and settlements.
Nada Elia’s commentary on Electronic Intifada:
The proposal that “the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation should endorse the principle of cultural and academic boycotts” passed by a landslide with one abstention and not a single objection. The quasi-unanimous vote, and the deep collective breath of relief that followed, will go down in history as the moment US-based Palestine solidarity activists overcame tactical differences that had long hindered us, to finally come together to confront Israeli apartheid.
See also:
U.S. Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (US-ACBI)
U.S. Campaign Against the Occupation
CODE PINK’s “Stolen Beauty” campaign to boycott Ahava products