Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement
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Today marks a watershed moment as the UN deadline for Israel to end its occupation of Palestine passes
Today marks a watershed moment as the UN deadline for Israel to end its occupation of Palestine passes. Twelve months on, Israel’s military might in occupied Gaza has brought the livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians to unimaginable horrors, and accelerates the ethnic cleansing and annexation. Yet, bar a handful of states, most have failed to start addressing these obligations. Israel is now officially a rogue state and must be treated at least as apartheid South Africa was.
The BDS movement calls on you to immediately escalate our existing call for lawful and targeted sanctions by joining our #DisruptComplicity Global Weekend of Action, 18 – 21 September.
As a matter of life-or-death urgency, Palestinian civil society calls on you to block highways, ports, and facilities of complicit corporations — to end business as usual with a rogue, apartheid state and its livestreamed genocide.
We are calling on you to stage mass protests at ministries and parliaments to demand a military embargo, the suspension of trade and academic ties, and the suspension of Israel from the UN, to organize strikes and work stoppages, where possible and reasonable, to escalate boycott campaigns against BDS priority targets, including disruptions at stores and offices, and to launch and support intersectional campaigns — pushing universities, unions, hospitals, and councils to exclude war-profiteering companies from contracts.
The BDS movement, with its tens of millions of supporters in over 120 countries worldwide, will not stop until we end Israel’s genocide and until Palestinians everywhere can exercise self-determination and enjoy freedom, justice and equality.
https://bdsmovement.net/news/disruptcomplicity-genocide-sanctions-now
“Teva? No grazie!” _ a Milano il 31 luglio
Mercoledì 31 luglio, ore 17, a Milano in piazzale Cadorna 4, sotto la sede nazionale di TEVA Italia, si terrà un presidio, con contemporanea conferenza stampa, di lancio della CAMPAGNA NAZIONALE
“TEVA? NO GRAZIE!”, promossa unitariamente da BDS italia e da Sanitari per Gaza – SPG .
Tutt* sono invitat* a partecipare.
Poi si spera in tantissime iniziative nelle molte città dove esistono gruppi BDS o SPG , o dove ci sono comunque persone che vogliono “fare qualcosa” dal basso, per opporsi all’ orrore.
Fate girare questo invito / notizia
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We haven’t had time to work on the regular BDS end-of-year fundraiser this year, as we’ve been, like many Palestinians and solidarity activists everywhere, overwhelmed with the necessary response to Israel’s ongoing #GazaGenocide.
But we know that our work and the global demand for effective, principled and strategic BDS campaigning and pressure have grown enormously. When we collectively succeed in imposing a permanent ceasefire and lifting the siege, our work will increase even more. Israel’s genocidal policies will only end once its 75-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid is dismantled. To that end, pushing for unprecedented accountability will become our top priority.
Israel’s live-streamed genocide is unprecedented in history. It has banned the entry of live-sustaining food, water, fuel and medical supplies to 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. In parallel, it has deliberately destroyed hospitals, universities, schools, UN shelters, bakeries, solar panels, carpet-bombing residential neighborhoods, telecommunications facilities, water and sewage treatment infrastructure.
Based on the depraved, dehumanizing statements and revealed plans of its fascist leaders, Israel is “rolling out” a “second Nakba,” ethnically cleansing Indigenous Palestinians en masse, and as admitted by Israeli military officials, “everything is intentional.” This has prompted UN experts to warn of a “genocide in the making” and forced the timid UN Secretary General to accuse Israel of turning Gaza into a “graveyard for children” and of posing a serious threat to world peace and security.
After a critical mass of pressure ultimately stops the genocide, we shall need to escalate BDS like never before to end business-as-usual with this genocidal regime in every field, academic, cultural, sports, economic, military, financial, etc. Apartheid Israel deserves the apartheid South Africa treatment: massive boycotts, divestment and unprecedented lawful sanctions, starting with a comprehensive military embargo.
Israel’s genocide has been “in the making” for decades. In Gaza, it’s now far deadlier, more visible, and indeed televised. The Palestinian leadership of the global BDS movement promises our people in Gaza, across historic Palestine, and in exile that we shall not rest until we’ve built the necessary people’s power to dismantle Israel’s regime of settler-colonial apartheid, the root cause of this oppression and unspeakable violence.
Help the BDS movement grow our impact to honor this promise
today, nov 29th, international day of solidarity with the palestinian people
TODAY November 29th, is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, and the #BDS movement is calling for an all day social media storm. Our physical and digital actions can be used together to strengthen our demands:
- Permanent ceasefire and lifting the siege to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
- Lawful sanctions on Israel, including a #MilitaryEmbargo.
- Pressure on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders
Click here for prepared messages and images to use for the social media storm.
Over the last 7 weeks, millions of you have taken to the streets for the largest protests the world has seen in the last 20 years! We are grateful to each one of you who, through your voices and creative actions, have built up unprecedented grassroots power to end Israel’s genocidal war against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Yet, Western governments are continuing to arm, fund and provide political cover for Israel’s genocide.
We must act urgently to end all state, corporate and institutional complicity with Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime. Palestinian lives and livelihoods literally depend on it. To this end, and as time has shown, BDS is the most effective form of solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle.
Today, we call for escalating worldwide peaceful mobilizations and expressions of meaningful solidarity to stop the genocide including:
- Whenever feasible, organizing peaceful disruptions, sit-ins, occupations, etc.
- Disrupting the transport of weapons, or weapon parts, to Israel, including in transit states.
- Pressuring parliaments and governments to cancel existing military-security contracts and agreements with Israel.
- Intensifying #BDS campaigns and campaigns to cut all ties to apartheid Israel and its complicit academic and cultural institutions as well as sports teams.
- Mobilizing your community, trade union, association, church, social network, student government/union, city council, cultural center, etc. to declare itself an Apartheid Free Zone (AFZ).
- Pressuring your elected officials to demand the International Criminal Court (ICC) issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders. The ICC prosecutor should be replaced if he continues to drag his feet and ignore his legal obligations to stop the genocide
If not now, when?
Unite now to stop #GazaGenocide and dismantle Israeli apartheid
Click here to read the full call to action
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stop al commercio europeo con gli insediamenti illegali
Se un milione di noi firmerà questa iniziativa, l’Europa dovrà votare sul divieto di commerciare con le colonie che occupano illegalmente altre nazioni, come la Palestina. È un’opportunità storica. Unisciti a me per assicurarci che le terre rubate a persone innocenti non siano di profitto per nessuno https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/it/stop_trade_with_settlements_loc_it/?btkTrbb=&v=142954&cl=19795994279&_checksum=18676ae20e1f3c169d0bdec960e3ce1225b94290d349dc7fc51ecfe78102a780&utm_source=share&utm_medium=webshare_api&utm_campaign=HJHHOpeCQzOsvW4oH0DcQw
Oltre 100 tra le più importanti organizzazioni per i diritti umani e sindacati europei hanno appena lanciato un’iniziativa legale per bandire dall’Unione europea i beni prodotti illegalmente negli insediamenti abusivi dei territori occupati. Se si raccoglierà il milione di firme necessario, l’UE potrebbe vietare un commercio basato sulla miseria del popolo palestinese, che riempie le tasche di coloni abusivi e leader corrotti.
I coloni abusivi guadagnano centinaia di milioni di euro all’anno vendendo i loro prodotti in Europa a persone che non sanno che stanno letteralmente finanziando crimini di guerra, come sono definiti dalla Convenzione di Ginevra. Il bando di questo commercio cambierebbe completamente la situazione in Israele e Palestina: i soldi dei consumatori europei – i TUOI soldi – smetterebbero di finanziare gli insediamenti israeliani violenti e illegali, spesso costruiti letteralmente sulle macerie delle case palestinesi.
Questa campagna è speciale e storica: per la prima volta palestinesi, ebrei ed europei chiedono insieme di eliminare i profitti che al momento rendono la violenza più redditizia della pace.
Maggiori informazioni:
Bambini palestinesi lavorano nelle colonie israeliane (BDS)
L’evoluzione della politica di colonizzazione israeliana nei Territori palestinesi occupati (Lo Spiegone)
#StopAlCommercioConGliInsediamenti (Pagina ufficiale dell’Iniziativa dei cittadini europei)
Palestina-Israele, Onu: nessuna giustificazione per terrorismo o violenza contro i civili (GreenReport.it)
Un report ambientale sui Territori Palestinesi Occupati (Centro Studi Sereno Regis)
Israele e Territori palestinesi occupati: aumento delle uccisioni illegali, urgente porre fine all’apartheid israeliano contro i palestinesi (Amnesty International)
palestinians thank artists boycotting apartheid israel-partnered pop kultur berlin
At least four artists withdrew from the festival, joining fifteen others since 2017.
Palestinians thank Lafawndah (and bandmate Trustfall), Alewya, Franky Gogo and Gigsta for withdrawing from @popkulturberlin, that is partnered with apartheid Israel #PK22
https://bdsmovement.net/news/boycott-pop-kultur-2022
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Four artists have withdrawn from Pop Kultur Berlin this year, in protest at its partnership with apartheid Israel! They join at least fifteen others to have boycotted the music festival since 2017, responding to private and public appeals from human rights defenders.
Parisian artist Lafawndah wrote in her eloquent statement that “the festival’s stance is an effective show of support for racism, colonial brutality and murder, despite its savvy marketing language touting inclusion, diversity and tolerance.”
Click to tweet at Pop Kultur
But Pop Kultur Berlin is still insisting on continuing its partnership with apartheid Israel, claiming that artwashing Israel’s apartheid regime and massacres in Gaza is “common practice”. It must have missed the thousands of artists who have endorsed the cultural boycott of Israel.
Even now, prominent German politicians allied to the festival are condemning the campaign and the principled artists who supported it and launching cynical smears against them. Let’s show once again that our collective impact is greater than these desperate, anti-Palestinian attacks.
Click to tweet at Pop Kultur
Not on Twitter? You can also copy the below comment and post it onto the festival’s Instagram & Facebook pages.
Thank you Lafawndah & Trustfall, Alewya, Franky Gogo and Gigsta for withdrawing from #PopKulturBerlin! All artists should boycott the festival until it drops its partnership with apartheid Israel. No progressive festival artwashes massacres. #PK22
In solidarity,
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
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TAKE NOTE:
The nonviolent BDS movement for freedom, justice and equality is supported by the absolute majority in Palestinian society. BDS rejects all forms of racism and racial discrimination.
The story of Maya Edery
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CRHTzjxgyf9/
JVP member Maya Edery shares her journey away from Zionism and toward support for Palestinian liberation — a journey that more and more Jews are embarking on, in part thanks to Maya herself!
In this interview, Maya discusses how her family’s history of oppression — as Ashkenazi Jews in Auschwitz and as Moroccan Jews experiencing state violence in Israel — has informed how she views oppression and resistance to oppression. She describes the kind of Zionist propaganda instilled in her while she was growing up and remembers her moments of revelation about Palestine. Finally, she talks about her responsibility to support the BDS movement as well as to challenge Zionism and white supremacy in Jewish communities, despite the accusations of antisemitism weaponized against those who do so.
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
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the story of maya edery
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CRHTzjxgyf9/
JVP member Maya Edery shares her journey away from Zionism and toward support for Palestinian liberation — a journey that more and more Jews are embarking on, in part thanks to Maya herself!
In this interview, Maya discusses how her family’s history of oppression — as Ashkenazi Jews in Auschwitz and as Moroccan Jews experiencing state violence in Israel — has informed how she views oppression and resistance to oppression. She describes the kind of Zionist propaganda instilled in her while she was growing up and remembers her moments of revelation about Palestine. Finally, she talks about her responsibility to support the BDS movement as well as to challenge Zionism and white supremacy in Jewish communities, despite the accusations of antisemitism weaponized against those who do so.
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
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