[Marxism] Organize for boycott Israel day of action

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Organize for boycott Israel day of action 
Appeal,  Secretariat of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions 
National  Committee, 
19 February 2009 

In December  2008, Israel decided to mark the 60th anniversary of its 
existence the same way  it had established itself -- perpetrating massacres 
against 
the Palestinian  people. In 23 days, Israel killed more than 1,300 and injured 
at least 5,000  Palestinians in Gaza. The irony of history is that Israel 
targeted those  Palestinians -- and their descendants -- whom it had expelled 
from 
their homes  and pushed into refugeehood in Gaza in 1948, whose land it has 
stolen, whom it  has oppressed since 1967 by means of a brutal military 
occupation, and whom it  had tried to starve into submission by means of a 
criminal 
blockade of food,  fuel and electricity in the 18 months preceding the military 
assault. We cannot  wait for Israel to zero in on its next objective. 
Palestine has today become the  test of our indispensable morality and our 
common 
humanity.

We therefore  call on all to unite our different capacities and struggles in 
a Global Day of  Action in Solidarity with the Palestinian people and for 
Boycott, Divestment and  Sanctions (BDS) against Israel on 30 March 2009.

The mobilization  coincides with the Palestinian Land Day, the annual 
commemoration of the 1976  Israeli massacre of Palestinians in the Galilee in 
struggle against massive land  expropriation, and forms part of the Global Week 
of 
Action against the Crises  and War from 28 March 28 to 4 April.

We urge the people and their  organizations around the globe to mobilize in 
concrete and visible boycott,  divestment, sanctions (BDS) actions to make this 
day a historic step in this new  anti-apartheid movementand for the 
fulfilment of the rights and dignity of the  people and the accountability of 
the 
powerful. In our 30 March BDS actions, we  will particularly focus on:


    *   Boycotts and divestment from Israeli corporations and international  
corporations that sustain Israeli apartheid and occupation.  
    *   Legal action to end Israel's impunity and prosecute its war criminals 
 through national court cases and international tribunals.  
    *   Cancelling and blocking free trade and other preferential agreements 
with  Israel and imposing an arms embargo as the first steps towards fully 
fledged  sanctions against Israel.

The time for the world to fully adopt and implement the Palestinian  call for 
boycotts, divestment and sanctions is now. This campaign has to become  an 
urgent part of every struggle for justice and humanity, by adopting  widespread 
action against Israeli products, companies, academic and cultural  
institutions, sports groups, international corporations supporting Israeli  
policies of 
racism, ethnic cleansing and military occupation and pressuring  governments 
for sanctions. It must be sustained until Israel provides free  access to Gaza, 
dismantles the Apartheid Wall and ends its occupation and  colonization of all 
Arab lands; recognizes the right of the Arab Palestinian  citizens of Israel 
to full equality; and respects, protects and promotes the  rights of the 
Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and  properties.

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) includes:  Council of National 
and Islamic Forces in Palestine; General Union of  Palestinian Workers; 
Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions; Palestinian  Non-Governmental 
Organizations' Network (PNGO); Federation of Independent Trade  Unions; Union 
of 
Palestinian Charitable Organizations; Global Palestine Right of  Return 
Coalition; 
Occupied Palestine and Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative  (OPGAI); General 
Union of Palestinian Women; Palestinian Farmers Union (PFU);  Grassroots 
Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (STW); Palestinian Campaign  for the 
Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI); National Committee to  
Commemorate 
the Nakba; Civic Coalition for the Defense of Palestinian Rights in  Jerusalem 
(CCDPRJ); Coalition for Jerusalem; and Palestinian Economic  Monitor.

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