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National Committee on Palestine BDS


The National Boycott Divestment Sanctions Committee invites you to participate with your own strength and skills for an active day of the global BDS March 30, 2010, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. The NBC invites those who have a conscience and their organizations around the world to mobilize in action BDS creative, concrete and visible, to make this day a historic step for the movimentro against apartheid, colonialism and occupation in Israel, for the empowerment of the oppressor and the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people.

On 30 March, calls for NBC to direct political action:

1. the boycott and divestment against Israel and those of international corporations c he supported the apartheid, colonialism and occupation in Israel

2. a legal action to end impunity Israeli investigate and judge the Israelis suspected of war crimes before domestic courts and international tribunals;

3. to promote and make a push for arms embargo against Israel and for a block or a termination of free trade and other preferential agreements in this state, a crucial and urgent step towards genuine sanctions;

4. to launch a boycott of academic, cultural and sports to the detriment of the institutions of Israel and its accomplices;

The first BD Global S Day of Action was announced by Palestinian civil society with strong support from the World Social Forum 2009. The day of the March 30 matches Land Day in Palestine, which commemorates the anniversary of the killing of six Palestinian youths - citizens of Israel - by the Israeli security forces in 1976. These guys were brave you are among the thousands of people intent on protesting against the expropriation of Palestinian land, used to build new Jewish colonies and expand existing Israeli towns. Today, Land Day symbolizes Palestinian resistance against dispossession, colonization, occupation and apartheid in Israel is still in progress.

The announcement of BDS first Global Day of Action came at the beginning of the 23-day Israeli offensive, Operation Lead time "during which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and over 5,000 were injured in the Gaza Strip occupied and under siege. A year later, Israel continues its blockade suffocating the entire Gaza Strip, in what has been described by human rights experts as an act of "slow genocide." This is just a continuation of the brutal Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people, he sees among his previous expulsion from homes during the Nakba of 1948, the military government, the occupation of lands and colonization, apartheid and the fierce denial the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their lands and their homes. In

BDS Day of Action 2009, including many unions, non-governmental organizations and student groups, political parties and social groups in over 40 cities around the world have responded - launched during the World Social Forum in 2009 - to take coordinated action of BDS globally. The activities last year's target, among others, companies such as Connex, a subsidiary of the multinational Veolia, an accomplice in the construction of the Israeli system of light rail connecting the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank to Jerusalem, the bookstore chain Chapters Indigo, the whose profits are paid into the accounts of Israeli soldiers "only" the supermarket giant Tesco, which sells an assortment of goods produced in illegal colonie; e Motorola, fornitore delle telecomunicazioni e dei sistemi elettronici delle forze di occupazione israeliane.

Da allora, la campagna globale del BDS è cresciuta. Studenti, aziende del settore privato, sindacati e altri attori della società civile di tutto il mondo hanno compreso che l'oppressione d'Israele ai danni del popolo palestinese non può più essere tollerata, e hanno concordemente adottato diverse forme di BDS contro Israele, fino a che non abbandonerà le sue politiche ostili e osserverà la legge internazionale. Nel solo 2009, sindacati, organizzazioni spirituali, gruppi studenteschi e molti altri movimenti hanno lanciato delle campagne BDS per rendere Israele responsabile delle proprie violazioni della international law and fundamental rights of Palestinians.