Read the full statement from the
Palestinian BDS National Committee here: http://www.bdsmovement.net/2015/solidarity-with-the-palestinian-popular-resistance-boycott-israel-now-13313
Whether
the current phase of Israel’s intensified repression and Palestinian popular
resistance will evolve into a full-fledged intifada or not, one thing is already
evident—a new generation of Palestinians is marching on the footsteps of
previous generations, rising up en masse against Israel’s brutal, decades-old
regime of occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid.
In
this latest round, Israel has fanned the flames of Palestinian grassroots
resistance by stepping up its attacks against al-Aqsa mosque compound, the Noble
Sanctuary, located in the heart of the Israeli occupied Old City of Jerusalem.
Fanatic, government-backed Jewish fundamentalist settler groups have
persistently desecrated the compound, often verbally insulting worshippers with
vile racism and openly calling for the destruction of the mosque. This has
triggered widespread anger and protests in Jerusalem and among Palestinians
everywhere in historic Palestine.
This ongoing rebellion is also a response to Israel
intensifying its ethnic cleansing and oppression of Palestinians. In recent
months, Israel has sped up its theft of Palestinian land and demolition of
Palestinians houses, tightened the siege on Gaza and implemented new racist
measures against Palestinians.
In
a typical so-called “period of calm”, Israel enforces its medieval siege of
Gaza, conducts incursions into Palestinians cities, confiscates Palestinian
land, including in the Naqab (Negev), destroys Palestinian property, and builds
illegal Jewish-only settlements. In its ongoing attempts to entrench its system
of apartheid and colonial rule, Israel denies Palestinians their full spectrum
of rights in the most banal of ways, from a child’s right to education to a
mother’s access to health care, to a farmer’s ability to reach his/her land and
to the right of a family to even live together in one home.
In
light of the apathy or direct complicity of world governments and the UN, and as
a result of Israel’s impunity in perpetuating this system of injustice against
Palestinians, in historic Palestine as well as in exile, the Boycott Divestment
and Sanctions (BDS) movement has made great strides in redefining Israel’s
positioning in the world stage as a pariah state.
More needs to be
done, however, to hold Israel to account and shatter its still strong impunity.
Complicit governments must be exposed. Corporations that are enabling and
profiting from Israel’s human rights violations must pay a price in their
reputation and revenues. Israel’s military machine, including its research arm,
must face a comprehensive international military embargo, and all Israeli
leaders, officers and soldiers who are involved in the commission of the current
and past crimes must be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court as well
as national courts that respect international jurisdiction.
Read the full
statement from the Palestinian BDS National Committee here.
Take action
now:
• Share our call
for solidarity action and our Boycott Israel now! graphic on Facebook and Twitter
• Find out ideas on products to boycott and campaigns to
support here.
• Build awareness
about Palestinian rights under international law and support for BDS
• Pressure
parliaments to impose a military embargo on
Israel
• Campaign against
Israeli military companies such as Elbit
Systems;
• Support boycott and divestment
campaigns against complicit companies, such as G4S and HP,
that are most blatantly complicit in Israel’s infrastructure of
oppression
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