karlos
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 Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:31 am Post subject: Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods |
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Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods (BIG)
are staging a demonstration this saturday to be held at Wembley stadium at 3pm.
This protest is being staged as part of the BIG campaign together with the friends of Palestine.
http://s188604020.websitehome.co.uk/index.php?page=jews-for-boycotting -israeli-goods
Saturday 8th September 2007
Start 3pm until kickoff 5pm
Show Israeli Racism the Red Card - Fair Play for the Palestinians – Kick Israeli Apartheid Out of Football
The vigil will be taking place along the Olympic Way, between Bridge road and Fulton Road, on the main route to Wembley stadium from Wembley park Underground station.
Directions: come out of Wembley Park tube station (Metropolitan and Jubilee lines), turn right at the bottom of the stairs, cross the road and walk along to enter the Stadium Retail Park on your left. Cross the car park towards Currys. The vigil will be held through the gate on the left of the entrance to Currys.
See a map here: http://tinyurl.com/yp78tw
| Quote: | Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods Founding Statement
We are a group of British and Israeli Jews resident in the UK who have come together in this 40th year of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land to support the Boycott Israeli Goods (BIG) campaign.
In 1967, the Israeli army took military control of the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Since that time the government of Israel has built settlements, roads and other infrastructure for its Jewish citizens, using land and resources stolen from the Palestinian people. This situation continues, unchallenged by Western governments, despite Israel’s being in violation of international humanitarian law and over 60 UN resolutions.
Israel daily destroys Palestinian lives, livelihoods and homes; it continues to build its illegal colonies and separation wall on stolen land; it continues to control Gaza while slicing the West Bank into Bantustans, separating Palestinian families from their schools, places of work and agricultural land; it denies Palestinian refugees their right to return and operates a form of racism in many respects worse than the South African apartheid system. Its policies of intimidation and humiliation aim to destroy Palestinian hopes of statehood. Israeli businesses export freely from Palestinian land while the Palestinian economy is on its knees as a result of the occupation.
We believe that this constitutes a betrayal of the best trends in Jewish ethical tradition. It inflames hatreds in our unstable world and renders impossible the achievement of a just peace for Israelis and Palestinians. We therefore support the existing campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions to enforce Israeli compliance with international law.
We call on those of our fellow Jews who are inclined to support the State of Israel unconditionally to think critically about what Israel does in our names. We call on every ethical consumer, of any faith or none, to refuse to support the Israeli economy for as long as the illegal occupation and exploitation of Palestine persists.
Given Israel’s disregard for international law, pressure has to be increased by civil society if justice is to be achieved for Palestinians as well as Israelis. A boycott of Israeli goods is a legitimate form of grassroots action and is particularly appropriate as Israel is destroying the Palestinian economy. Such a boycott has been called for by peace organisations in Israel including the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
We believe that Israel’s actions betray Jewish ethical traditions. The continuing occupation and exploitation of Palestinian land blocks a resolution to conflict in the Middle East and its global ramifications endanger world peace.
Deborah Fink, Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Mike Cushman, Tony Greenstein, Deborah Maccoby, Professor Moshe Machover, Mike Marqusee, Ruth Tenne
jews4boycottingisraeligoods@yahoo.co.uk
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