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Hundreds of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against a possible unilateral Israeli military strike on Iran, as more Israeli citizens begin to reach out to Iranians. Facebook is being used by pro-peace Israelis to talk with Iranians, and cultural events are happening in Israel against the war drive of the Netanyahu government.
The Stop the War Coalition opposes the use of sanctions or military action against Iran by the United States or Israel. These are clear violations of international law.
The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee is proud to stand in solidarity with the movements struggling for a new world based on democracy, human rights and economic justice. From New York to Athens, from Madrid to Santiago, from Bahrain to Rome, these huge mobilisations provide a much needed reminder of something that Palestinians have always known – that another world, a dignifying one, is possible and ordinary people can create it.
Michael Coleman from Sydney is amongst the 27 human rights defenders captured on Friday, 4 November, during Israel’s illegal takeover of the Irish and Canadian boats which sailed together as Freedom Waves to Gaza.
The Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP) endorses the July 2011 call from the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) for “international action towards a mandatory comprehensive military embargo against Israel similar to that imposed against apartheid South Africa
The current Israeli government continues to steal land from the Palestinians and to attempt to blockade those in Gaza. It continues to deny responsibility for the millions in exile. As long as Israeli policy looks like this, Israel will remain an insecure bunker on the fringes of the Middle East, a Middle East that has itself become fluid and subject to popular tsunamis.
Israeli soldiers shot and killed at least 20 Palestinian protesters today, and wounded several hundred others, during Nakba rallies around the region. Nakba commemorates the expulsion of Palestinians from Israeli territory during the founding of the Israeli state, and is officially illegal to commemorate inside Israel. AND watch inspiring video of many hundreds of Palestinians/Syrians breaking in to the occupied Golan Heights
Marrickville Council, in Sydney’s inner-west, on Tuesday night dumped its boycott of Israeli products and services after widespread criticism from the federal and state governments, business leaders and the Jewish community.
Despite the setback, Marrickville mayor Fiona Byrne on Wednesday said the sanctions had achieved some success in the face of an “avalanche” of pressure and criticism.
“Council has put the human rights of the Palestinian people on the national agenda. That’s success to me,” she said.
“This is an ethical purchasing policy. Every organisation, every individual has a right to decide, by whatever criteria, who they’ll do business with.”
Pink Floyd star Roger Waters – writer of the band’s famous album The Wall – has become patron of the Cambridge Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
The rock singer, who was brought up and educated in the city, has also backed efforts to impose sanctions against Israel.
He said: “In 2005, Palestinian children participating in a West Bank festival used the song to protest against Israel’s wall around the West Bank, singing: ‘We don’t need no occupation! We don’t need no racist wall!’
During the dark days of apartheid South Africa, local, state and federal levels of government eventually took a stand against the regime there and nobody complained. The issue here is the perceived democratic nature of the Zionist state, despite its increasingly fascist actions against Arabs and Palestinians. This reality is ignored in the corridors of mainstream power.
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