organization:palestine solidarity

London protest demands Israel end ’unprecedented attacks’ on Palestine
Mattha Busby - Sat 11 May 2019 18.12 BST
March included unionists, MPs and activist Ahed Tamimi, jailed for slapping Israeli soldier
▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/11/israel-end-attacks-on-palestine-london-protest-demands

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Thousands have demonstrated in central London to demand an end to the “unprecedented attacks” against the Palestinian people at the hands of Israel.

Marching from Portland Place to Whitehall, a diverse crowd chanted “Palestine will be free” and called for the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, while holding banners calling on the UK to stop arming Israel, as part of a demonstration organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Stop the War Coalition, among others.

Protesters gathered next to the cenotaph to hear speeches from the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) representative, union officials, MPs and campaigners.

Ahed Tamimi, who became a symbol of resistance for the Palestinian people after she was jailed for slapping soldiers outside her home in the West Bank, took to the stage and said she refused to be defined as a victim, but instead a freedom fighter. (...)

Why has Israel banned Jewish leftists but not members of Nazi-linked groups ? | +972 Magazine

▻https://972mag.com/why-has-israel-banned-jewish-leftists-but-not-members-of-nazi-linked-groups/132268

Un peu « gênant », mais pas vraiment une surprise.

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srael’s latest step in its self-described “offensive” against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is to include Jewish Voice for Peace, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and the American Friends Service Committee on a list of organizations whose leading members are banned from entering the country. Although the law barring boycott advocates was passed in March last year, the blacklisted organizations only came to light on Saturday. But while Jews who support the boycott movement are now barred from visiting the country, members of Nazi-allied organizations and anti-Semitic political parties continue to be allowed into Israel — including at the invitation of government officials.

#israël #bds

Israel publishes BDS blacklist : These are the 20 groups whose members will be denied entry -
Noa Landau Jan 07, 2018
▻https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.833502

Israel published on Sunday the full list of organizations whose activists will be barred from entering the country. The so-called BDS blacklist was released by the Strategic Affairs Ministry.

Members of the 20 organizations on the list will not be allowed to enter the country due to their support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. The list primarily includes European and American organizations as well as groups from Latin America, a group from South Africa and an international umbrella organization.
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The full list

European organizations:

■ The France Association Palestine Solidarity

■ BDS France

■ BDS Italy

■ The European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine

■ Friends of Al-Aqsa

■ Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign

■ The Palestine Committee of Norway

■ Palestine Solidarity Association of Sweden

■ Palestine Solidarity Campaign

■ War on Want

■ BDS Kampagne

American organizations:

■ American Friends Service Committee

■ American Muslims for Palestine

■ Code Pink

■ Jewish Voice for Peace

■ National Students for Justice in Palestine

■ US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

Other groups:

■ BDS Chile

■ BDS South Africa

■ BDS National Committee

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Israël donne son accord pour un projet anti-BDS de 72 millions de dollars
2 janvier | JTA & The Times of Israel |Traduction LGr pour l’AURDIP
▻http://www.aurdip.fr/israel-donne-son-accord-pour-un.html

Financée par le gouvernement et par des donateurs juifs, la nouvelle organisation supervisera la lutte contre le boycott via une diplomatie publique

#BDS

UK “anti-terror” spies snoop on Palestine solidarity activists
▻https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/uk-anti-terror-spies-snoop-palestine-solidarity-activists

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Leaked local government documents show that UK spy agencies are gathering information on “pro-Palestinian activity” as part of controversial “anti-terrorism” strategy Prevent.

Obtained by civil rights group CAGE, the documents are part of an aspect of Prevent known as Counter-terrorism Local Profiles, or CTLPs.

A summary of the CTLP for Sussex, on the south coast of England, shows that one of the “priority themes” in Brighton and Crawley is “pro-Palestinian” protest.

The documents also include a range of other legitimate protest groups as being of concern under “counter-terrorism,” including “environmental protest” and anti-fracking groups.

The liberal coastal city of Brighton is home to an active Palestine solidarity scene, and a particularly active chapter of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

In 2014, a branch of Israeli company Sodastream in the city had to close, after a sustained two-year campaign by local activists made the brand toxic.

Sodastream at the time operated a factory on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal told The Electronic Intifada that the news was “a disturbing revelation,” and said Prevent was “being used to frame legitimate political activity and peaceful human rights activism as extremist.”

He said that “there is an increasingly urgent need for government to make clear that it takes seriously its duties to protect freedom of expression and that it recognizes that those who protest peacefully against human rights abuses are not extremists and a threat to the public but informed and concerned citizens.”

Israel boycott restrictions thrown out by UK’s High Court | The Electronic Intifada

▻https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-boycott-restrictions-thrown-out-uks-high-court

The High Court in London ruled on Thursday that the Conservative government acted unlawfully in trying to prevent local councils in the United Kingdom from divesting from firms involved in Israel’s military occupation.

The successful legal challenge for the right to boycott was brought by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in March, and was supported by War on Want, the Campaign Against the Arms Trade and the Quakers.

”We couldn’t be happier that this right has been upheld by the court,” said PSC Director Ben Jamal.

Recent UK polling showed that two in five people consider BDS – boycott, divestment and sanctions – a reasonable Palestinian response to Israel’s crimes.

“Today is a victory for Palestine, for local democracy and for the rule of law,” PSC Chair Hugh Lanning said. “Absolutely everyone has a right to peacefully protest Israel’s violation of Palestinian human rights.”

In a judicial review published on Thursday, judge Ross Cranston overturned part of a guidance document issued in September by local government minister Sajid Javid.

The court ruled that the government had acted improperly by seeking to use pension law to pursue its own foreign and arms industry policy.

Attaques concertées contre BDS en France, au Canada, aux Etats-Unis, en Angleterre...
►http://seenthis.net/messages/459796

Réaction en Angleterre :

« Interdire le boycott d’Israël est antidémocratique »
The Independant, le 20 février 2016
►http://www.aurdip.fr/interdire-le-boycott-d-israel-est.html

Lettre signée par : Ahdaf Soueif, Roger Waters, Tommy Sheppard MP, Cat Smith MP, Malia Bouattia, NUS Black Students’ Officer, Len McCluskey, General Secretary, Unite the Union, Alex Cunningham MP, Chris Stephens MP, Clive Betts MP, Dave Anderson MP, Kate Osamor MP, Marie Rimmer MP, Martyn Day MP, Nic Dakin MP, Steven Paterson MP, Yasmin Qureshi MP, Louise Haigh MP, Lord Ahmed Nazir, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Matt Wrack, General Secretary FBU, Mick Whelan, General Secretary ASLEF, Tim Roache, General Secretary Elect GMB, Mick Cash, General Secretary RMT, Piers Telemancque, Vice president Society and Citizenship, NUS, Shelly Asquith - Vice President Welfare, NUS, Ken Loach, Mark Thomas, Rizwan Ahmed, Mike Leigh, Andrew Smith, Campaign Against Arms Trade, Alexei Sayle, Anna Carteret, April De Angelis, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Caryl Churchill, Fionn Travers-Smith, Move Your Money, Gillian Slovo, Hari Kunzru, Hugh Lanning, Chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jeremy Hardy, Jo Ram, Community Reinvest, Joel Benjamin, Community Reinvest, John Hilary, Executive Director of War on Want, Maggie Steed, Maxine Peake, Mick Bowman, Newcastle City Council, Michael Radford, Miriam Margolyes, Niall Buggy, Pauline Melville, Peter Kosminsky, Rachel Holmes, Riya Hassan, Palestinian BDS National Committee, Robert Wyatt, Vica Rogers, Debt Resistance UK

On y trouve des parlementaires, des dirigeants de centrales syndicales, et des artistes dont Roger Waters, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, mais aussi Robert Wyatt (de Soft Machine).

A propos d’artistes anglais, Jospeh Coward, un jeune chanteur (que je ne connais pas mais qui vient d’enregistrer un titre avec Thurston Moore de Sonic Youth), vient aussi de s’engager pour BDS, très explicitement dans cet article :
▻http://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/the-405-meets-joseph-coward-145

#Palestine #Royaume_Uni #BDS #Boycott #Censure #criminalisation_des_militants #artistes

The #Palestine exception to free speech
▻http://palestinelegal.org/the-palestine-exception

Over the last decade, a dynamic movement in support of Palestinian human rights, particularly active in US colleges and universities, has helped raise public awareness regarding the Israeli government’s #violations of international law, as well as the role of corporations and the US government in facilitating these abuses. This activism, fueled by Israel’s increasingly destructive assaults on Gaza, presents a robust and sustainable challenge to the longstanding orthodoxy in the United States that excuses, justifies, and otherwise supports discriminatory Israeli government policies.

Fearful of a shift in domestic public opinion, Israel’s fiercest defenders in the United States—a network of advocacy organizations, public relations firms, and think tanks—have intensified their efforts to stifle criticism of Israeli government policies. Rather than engage such criticism on its merits, these groups leverage their significant resources and #lobbying power to pressure universities, government actors, and other institutions to censor or punish advocacy in support of Palestinian rights. In addition, high-level Israeli government figures, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and wealthy benefactors such as Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban have reportedly participated in strategic meetings to oppose Palestine activism, particularly boycott, divestment, and sanctions (#BDS) campaigns.

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#intimidation #menaces #mensonges #droit #droits_humains #Etats-Unis #Israel #Israël

NAMING GAZA’S DEAD
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/naming-gazas-dead

Short film of a Vigil for Gaza held in Lancaster UK on August 6th 2014, organised by Lancaster Palestine Solidarity Campaign. ’Naming Gaza’s Dead’ is a reflection of what the vigil meant to the...

Palestine campaigners welcome Irish government Gaza donation, but call for political action too | Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
▻http://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/palestine-campaigners-welcome-irish-government-gaza-donation-but-call-for-polit

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign today welcomed the Irish government’s announcement that it would send €500,000 in emergency aid to the UN emergency appeal for Gaza, but added that aid was not a solution to the ongoing problem of the brutality of Israeli occupation, colonisation and apartheid.

Freda Hughes, IPSC media spokesperson said, “This is a welcome move from the Irish government because Gaza is facing a crisis of unthinkable proportions. However, emergency aid alone is not enough, concrete political action to sanction Israel for its ongoing crimes is required, and required immediately. Over 540 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians have been killed in Israel’s latest onslaught. All manner of civilian infrastructure, including hospitals have been deliberately targeted. Whole neighbourhoods have been destroyed. Israel acts in flagrant violation of international law, and is allowed do so with complete impunity. It must be sanctioned by states if those states’ commitments to upholding human rights norms and international law are to be taken seriously.”

#Israel's Livni under fire for Abbas meeting
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/israels-livni-under-fire-abbas-meeting

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Supporters of the #Palestine Solidarity Campaign hold placards bearing the picture of Israeli Justice Minister #Tzipi_Livni during a demonstration in central London on May 15 2014, against her visit to the city. (Photo: AFP - Ben Stansall)

Israel’s chief negotiator Tzipi Livni came under attack in the Zionist state on Sunday for talks with Palestinian Authority president #Mahmoud_Abbas, with senior officials insisting there was no intention to resume peace negotiations. Thursday’s meeting in London was the first between the two sides since the collapse last month of the latest round of talks, and came after both held separate talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry. read (...)

Apologists for Israel take top posts at BBC | The Electronic Intifada
▻http://electronicintifada.net/content/apologists-israel-take-top-posts-bbc/12395

... a new director-general took up his post at the BBC and, within two weeks, had installed a line-up of hardline Zionists at the top of the world’s largest publicly-funded news organization.

Why I believe #Israel is an #apartheid state — Zackie Achmat « Writing Rights
►http://writingrights.nu.org.za/2012/03/08/why-i-believe-israel-is-an-apartheid-state-zackie-achmat

This is the full text of the speech I delivered University of Cape Town — Palestine Solidarity Forum — Israeli Apartheid Week 06 March 2012.

The accompanying picture should speak a million words to people of conscience. An alliance between two apartheid states cemented with arms to promote and protect racial oppression and colonisation.

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“South African groups seek arrest warrant for Livni” - Haaretz
►http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/south-african-groups-seek-arrest-warrant-for-livni-1.337175

The Media Review Network and the Palestine Solidarity Alliance are seeking to secure an arrest warrant in South Africa for Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni, who is due to visit that country next week, Channel 10 reported citing South African media outlets.

The South African groups allege that Livni is guilty of war crimes due to her role in Israel’s three-week offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in the winter of 2008-09, when Livni was foreign minister in the government of Ehud Olmert.

#Tzipi_Livni #Israël #Afrique_du_Sud