In May 2025 the University of San Francisco divested from weapons manufacturers.
6 May 2025: Dozens of former ESC contestants have demanded from the EBU that Israel is banned from the ESC taking place the same month.
May 2025: 1300 Israeli academics call for an end of the war in Gaza.
May 2025: At the Film Festival in Cannes exists a Palestine showcase and the pro-Palestinian Film “I’m glad you are dead now” wins a Palm d’Or.
May 2025: John Greenwood of Radiohead and the Israeli Dudu Tassa had to cancel a tour after two venues had to cancel announced shows of the duo. They alleged that the venues received too many demands of boycott if they did not cancel the show.
12 May: 380 film industry members (among them are Javier Bardem, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, etc.) condemn the silence of the Cannes Film Festival over the murder of a Palestinian journalist by Israel. She was a protagonist of a movie to be screened in Cannes.
31 May: Womens Football Cup finals abandoned after fans didn’t remove Palestine flags.