COOP e Nordiconad interrompono la commercializzazione dei prodotti delle colonie nei territori palestinesi occupati

A seguito della campagna di pressione della coalizione italiana contro la Carmel-Agrexco, due importanti catene italiane di supermercati, COOP e Nordiconad, hanno dichiarato la sospensione della vendita dei prodotti Agrexco, principale esportatore di prodotti agricoli da Israele e dalle colonie israeliane illegali nei Territori Palestinesi Occupati.

Fonte Stop Agrexco Italia

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Sweden's Assa Abloy AB, the world's largest lock maker, said Tuesday it would move a production plant from an Israeli settlement in the West Bank after being criticized by human rights groups.
The announcement followed a critical report by the Church of Sweden, aid group Diakonia and SwedWatch, a nonprofit group that monitors the conduct of Swedish businesses. The report said Assa Abloy disrespects international humanitarian law by conducting business in occupied territory.

fonte Associated Press

Il gruppo svedese Assa Abloy, leader mondiale dei sistemi di serratura, ha dichiarato lo scorso martedì di essere intenzionato a spostare l’impianto di produzione ora all’interno di un insediamento Israeliano, in Cisgiordania, a seguito delle critiche avanzate da gruppi in difesa dei diritti umani.
La dichiarazione ha seguito un rapporto critico realizzato dalla Chiesa Svedese, il gruppo Diakonia e SwedWatch, un’associazione no-profit che monitora la condotta delle industrie svedesi. Secondo il rapporto, Assa Abloy - gestendo affari su territorio occupato - non rispetta il diritto umanitario internazionale.

(trad. a cura dell'ufficio di Luisa Morgantini)

Fiera del libro di Torino: boicottare sì o no?

La Fiera del libro di Torino dall'8 al 12 maggio avrà come paese ospite Israele
e qua sono inziate subito le polemice: il 2008 Israele festeggia i 60 anni di fondazione, la Palestina festeggia invece i 60 anni di nakba ...
e quindi c'è chi sostiene che la fiera vada boicottata (tra cui Suad Amiry, Paola Canarutto) e chi esprime le ragioni di un non boicottaggio (compresi gli organizzatori della Fiera in una lettera di risposta a Tariq Ramadan, o l'appello contro il boicottaggio di Khaled Fouad Allam e Victor Magiar) ...
A me è piaciuto questo intervento su Hawiyya che invita a non fare boicottaggio in quanto arma poco efficace in questo frangente ma a rispondere con la guerriglia comunicativa della controinformazione .... e citando Nazione Indiana e il blog di Sherif El Sebaie ...

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il racconto di Benny Tziper che ogni venerdì va a manifestare pacificamente (una manifestazione fatta da israeliani e palestinesi insieme) davanti al muro nel villaggio di Bil'in, vicino a Tel Aviv, close to Tel Aviv and central Israel and to all the fake leftists who inhabit Tel Aviv’s coffee shops, dove si fa presto ad assumere atteggiamenti fricchettoni e a definirsi di sinistra senza poi fare nulla di concreto.
It’s easiest to cry over the occupation from afar, without ever seeing a Palestinian close up. I believe that there may not be a solution to the Palestinian issue, but that’s nothing to do with the fact that one can act like a human being and to show Palestinians, who are imprisoned behind fences and walls only a few kilometers from us, that we share their pain and sadness.

il suo commento, e l'approvazione, alla campagna di boicottaggio da parte dei docenti universitari in Gran Bretagna, definiti da Israele antiebrei.
It is true that it is not the professors in the universities who are oppressing Palestinians, but in their silence, they are approving of the atrocities. And with their huge egos they ignore what is happening at spitting distance from them: that there are professors and lecturers just like them who can be treated like dogs by every pissy soldier, whose decision it is whether or not they will give their lesson today, and all this because they are Palestinians (...) true civilization means fighting for the academic freedoms and for the rights of those who do not have them.
You know what? I’m am looking forward to the day when every Israeli who took part in the evils of the occupation will be refused entry into England. I want to see the faces of all those young heros, who throw tear gas canisters at elderly women and who chase a disabled man in a wheelchair, and then when they’re done with the army travel to India and become spiritual.
(fonte We deserve the British Academic Boycott!, l'originale in ebraico su Haaretz)

Buy Palestinian products, produce locally, and invest in Palestine!

The popular committee to support Palestinian products has stressed the importance of obtaining the support of all sections of Palestinian society in order to end the Palestinians' dependency on the Israeli economy.
In a statement, the committee secretary Salih Hammad said that it is important to create new peaceful methods of struggle against the Israeli economic occupation. This can be achieved through creating a culture that encourages Palestinians to buy and use Palestinian products, the statement said.

(fonte Maan News)

... un modo pacifico per combattere l'occupazione economica israeliana e cessare la dipendenza palestinese dall'economia israeliana: comprare prodotti, produrre localmente e investire in Palestina.

boicottare chi?

chi si permette di criticare Israele per la sua politica viene accusato di antisemitismo: intellettuali, accademici, filosofi, registi (Eyal Sivan -autore di Route 181, Noam Chomsky, Tony Kushner -che ha scritto la sceneggiatura di Munich, Tony Judt -storico, Tony Lerman -direttore dell' Institute for Jewish Policy Research), chiunque cerchi di analizzare la questione israeliano-palestinese con un'ottica critica viene accusato di antisemitismo, come se volesse negare l'Olocausto. Da molte parti si levano voci di protesta e di accusa e azioni popolari di boicottaggio contro Israele. Ma c'è un altro boicottaggio, che produce molte più vittime: quello del cosiddetto Quartetto che da gennaio 2006 ha bloccato i finanziamenti al governo palestinese.
Quale boicottaggio preferite?
qua di seguito alcuni stralci dell'articolo del regista e accademico israeliano Haim Bresheeth.

Over the last few months a campaign of vile propaganda has been waged, not for the first time, against liberal Jewish intellectuals who have angered the dominant Jewish communities of the main Western countries.
The charge? Anti-Semitism, no less. In different communities, an accusatory finger is pointed at those Jewish thinkers and artists who have dared to criticise Israel and its illogical, barbaric and counter- productive policies and actions. Anyone who strays from the simple line of full support for whatever Israel chooses to do, however infuriating, is tarred with the brush of anti-Semitism, used as a magical incantation against heretics outside the Zionist faith. (...)
While it may be permissible for intellectuals in some countries to criticise their governments, and it might even be enshrined within the democratic rights of self-expression and public speech, such a right apparently does not exist when discussing Israel. (...)
The cynical use and abuse of the events of the Holocaust seems to be the secret weapon of Israel and its Jewish (and non- Jewish) uncritical supporters. (...)
In many communities, Jews have realised that it is time to stand up and be counted, exactly because of the abuse of the Holocaust and its use in defending that that is indefensible. Many have joined the growing boycott of Israel -- the trade, academic and cultural boycotts -- as non-aggressive options for public and international action against Israel and its continued aggression against Palestine and other Arab countries. That is the real source of worry for organised Zionist institutions; this growing snowball is starting to move, at last, collecting force and momentum along the way and swaying public opinion in a number of countries against Israel and its uncritical protection by Western powers.
The results of such protest actions can be foreseen. We witnessed the growth of the anti-apartheid movement from a small group of radicals and activists to worldwide action that swept away the South African regime and its injustices. This is what Israel and its allies in crime fear most -- a genuine popular movement that will force international involvement in finding a peaceful and just solution to the conflict after all Western-led attempts have failed miserably due to their total commitment to the Israeli cause and their implicit support for the continued occupation and its iniquities.
While this popular boycott is gathering pace, and being attacked as anti-Semitic, another boycott has been very successfully applied for a whole year. Since January 2006, when democratically-run Palestinian elections produced large popular backing for Hamas, Israel and its Western allies -- the so-called "Quartet" -- have illegally boycotted Palestine and its government in every way possible. (...)
The Quartet boycott, which includes the UN, is illegal, like the preceding Afghanistan and Iraq fiascos, and as likely to produce the opposite results of those projected by its participants. It is also a boycott that is destructive, divisive, and which exposes the population of Palestine to shortages of food, medicine and funds to run their basic services, neither was it discussed nor voted upon by parliaments anywhere, or even publicly debated in a serious manner.

Which boycott do you prefer? Which is more likely to cause harm, and which is the one that may contribute to a future just solution and peaceful coexistence? Remembering South Africa is useful and spurious accusations of anti-Semitism should not prohibit rational and much-needed debate.

(qua l'articolo completo pubblicato su Al-Ahram Whose boycott is it anyway).