BDS Manifesto Feb 28. 2010 | Comments (4)
- after the condemnation of our friend Sakina in Bordeaux this month for having put a sticker "Boycott israel" on a bottle of orange juice in a Carrefour supermarket (she is making an appeal against this decision).
- after the big lies of our Prime Minister and our Ministry of Justice who said in their speeches in front of Jewish institutions (CRIF), one week ago, that we were attacking Kosher products.
- after one of us (Serge Grossvak) made
a public
statement saying he wanted to be sued by the government too because he
has
participated in boycott actions.
BDS Manifesto
I am addressing this to the French government and especially to the Minister of Justice, to inform them that I participate in the boycott of goods produced by the Israeli occupier of the Palestinian territories, and, in so doing, refuse to become an accomplice in the crimes committed by the State of Israel against a defenceless people, and in total violation of international law as well as humanitarian law.
Yes, I participate in the boycott of products from this war-waging, conquering and repressive country that has abandoned all morality.
Yes, it is with my voice and my soul that I take part in this act of resistance, an act which is reasoned and peaceful.
In this way, I raise my voice against Israel's disgraceful crimes and its pursuit of the settlements, in order to induce it to renounce colonization.
Faced with the inertia of the French and European authorities, who refuse to impose sanctions on a State which commits war crimes and crimes against humanity, I consider it a moral duty to lend assistance to a people in danger.
Faced with a colonization that has gone on for decades, in violation of numerous Resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, faced with the construction of a wall ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, faced with the imprisonment and murder of thousands of men, women and children, I am responding to the appeal launched by Palestinian civil society by participating in the campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) aimed at the Israeli occupier.
As in the struggle against South Africa's apartheid regime, I consider the boycott to be the only peaceful means to impose the respect for human rights and international law, without which we are threatened by a law of might over right, which can only mean barbarity.I shall stop boycotting the State of Israel and its products when it stops boycotting the Palestinian people, walling them in, denying them their fundamental rights and depriving them of food, employment, freedom of movement, and their right to self-determination.
First signatories :
BOUMEDIENE-THIERY Alima, Sénatrice (Paris)
KIIL-NIELSEN Nicole, Députée européenne (Rennes)
MGR GAILLOT Jacques, Evêque (Paris)
LANGLOIS Bernard, Journaliste (Paris)
LECOUR-GRANDMAISON Olivier, Historien (Paris)
ROSSI Henri, Militant des Droits de l'Homme (Cannes)
BOURGET Jacques-Marie, Journaliste (Paris)
RENOU Xavier, Responsable associatif (Paris)
PONSIN Jean-Claude, Médecin et ancien X (Paris)
AMARA Jean-Claude, Porte-Parole de Droits Devant !
ZEMOR Olivia, Responsable associative (Paris)
FLAMENT Michel, Coordination de l'Appel de Strasbourg (Strasbourg)
DEPLUS Sylvie, Medecin ophtalmologue (Paris)
JENNAR Raoul Marc, Consultant en relations internationales (Mosset, 66)
BESANCENOT Olivier, Porte-parole national du NPA (Paris)
KRIVINE Alain, NPA, ancien député européen (Paris)
HARRIBEY Jean-Marie, Économiste Université Bordeaux IV
NIKONOFF Jacques, Universitaire, porte-parole du M'PEP (Paris)
CAHEN Michel, chercheur CNRS, historien de l’Afrique (Bordeaux)
We went to war with Iraq because of it was thought to have WMDs and it ignored a few UN Resolutions and we have justified that war on the grounds of human rights. We impose sanctions on Iran because we fear it may develop nuclear weapons. We impose sanctions on democratically elected Hamas, because it does not recognise Israel and refuses to give up its armed struggle. Yet we reward Israel with special trading privileges though Israel has (a) More nuclear warheads then France or Britain and uses other WMD on Palestinians (b) contravenes more than 60 UN Resolutions passed since 1967 (c) brutally violates the most basic human rights of Palestinians on a daily basis (the violations are well documented by UN, EU and NGOs) (d) refuses to recognise Palestine and (e) has no intention of giving up its mighty military weaponry which it uses against Palestinian citizens.
Every civilised citizen, every respectable business and every honourable government should join in the boycott of Israel, until such time that Israel acts in accordance with international law and human rights law. Otherwise, we will all be guilty as accomplices in Israel's crimes against humanity.
To label human rights campaigners 'anti-semitic' for campaigning against Israel's occupation of Palestinian land, is to allow powerful nations to run riot without account. Do not let this unfair allegation to sway you from your moral duties.
As a an American Jew, I support the boycott, divestment & sanctions in re: Israel until Israel ends its occupation of Palestinian people in the West Bank & Gaza.
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