*[Enwl-eng] From Palestine…
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Wed May 12 02:13:37 MSK 2021
Israeli troops just murdered 9 children in Gaza, injured over 200 unarmed
protesters, and are moving to violently displace 1500 Palestinians from
Jerusalem and Sheikh Jarrah. Israel is now led by one of the most brutally
racist regimes on the planet -- it's time for the world to declare that
Palestinian rights matter, and rally behind sanctions on Israel: Dear
friends, This is an emergency. Israeli warplanes murdered 9 children in
Gaza. The far-right Israeli government is planning to displace over 1500
Palestinians from Jerusalem, starting this month with families from the
Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood who are facing the worst kinds of abuse.
Palestinians are bravely protesting in the streets. The Israeli government
is responding with maximum cruelty. In Jerusalem, hundreds of unarmed
protesters are being attacked, including elderly people and children. This
is just another example of the racist brutality of Israel's military
occupation over Palestinians, an injustice that has lasted for decades.
Enough is enough. Palestinian lives, homes, and rights matter. Sanctions
work. In South Africa, sanctions helped free black citizens from Apartheid.
Now it's time for the world to rally behind sanctions on Israel to free the
Palestinians.
Israeli troops just murdered 9 children in
Gaza, injured over 200 unarmed protesters, and are moving to violently
displace 1500 Palestinians from Jerusalem and Sheikh Jarrah. Israel is now
led by one of the most brutally racist regimes on the planet -- it's time
for the world to declare that Palestinian rights matter, and rally behind
sanctions on Israel:
SIGN HERE
Dear friends,
This is an emergency. Israeli warplanes
murdered 9 children in Gaza. The far-right Israeli government is planning to
displace over 1500 Palestinians from Jerusalem, starting this month with
families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood who are facing the worst kinds
of abuse.
Palestinians are bravely protesting in the
streets. The Israeli government is responding with maximum cruelty. In
Jerusalem, hundreds of unarmed protesters are being attacked, including
elderly people and children.
This is just another example of the racist
brutality of Israel's military occupation over Palestinians, an injustice
that has lasted for decades.
Enough is enough. Palestinian lives, homes,
and rights matter.
Sanctions work. In South Africa, sanctions
helped free black citizens from Apartheid. Now it's time for the world to
rally behind sanctions on Israel to free the Palestinians.
Palestinian Rights Matter - Sanction Israel!
Human Rights Watch, one of the most
respected human rights organizations in the world, and B’tselem, the most
respected Israeli human rights organization, both recently concluded that
Israel is committing crimes against humanity of Persecution and Apartheid
against Palestinians.
Meanwhile, extremist Israeli settlers march
in the streets chanting “Death to Arabs”, and have burned thousands of olive
trees that many Palestinains rely on to survive. A member of the Israeli
parliament has even demanded for Palestinian women to be discriminated
against in maternity wards, so they don’t give birth in the same rooms as
Jewish women!
This is a vicious downward spiral.
The Palestinian people are not perfect. They
have made many painful mistakes in their struggle for freedom. But there is
no question that the Israeli government, with the fourth strongest military
in the world, is the actor with maximum power on the ground. Israel controls
the land, air, water, access to food, and even the freedom of movement of
ALL Palestinians. For 70 years, it has been punishing, evicting and
discriminating against millions of Palestinians whose lives it controls.
The Israeli government believes it has a
green light to continue committing these crimes, and crushing Palestinians -
because it believes it can block people around the world from organizing at
scale to push their governments to impose sanctions. Let’s prove them wrong
by turning this petition into a massive people’s movement that no decision
maker can ignore.
Palestinian Rights Matter - Sanction Israel!
Virtually every other tool has been tried,
for decades, to encourage the Israeli regime to treat Palestinians better,
and they just keep treating them worse. Targeted sanctions, covering things
like Israeli blood diamonds, a boycott on arms sales (Israel sells weapons
to some of the world's most brutal regimes) as well tech and cultural
sanctions (like banning Israel from sporting events and the Eurovision song
contest) may finally affect the calculus of the regime.
With hope and determination,
Fadi, Marie, Christoph, Mo, Nax, John,
Risalat, and the entire Avaaz team
PS: Israel’s many enablers will knee-jerk
accuse Avaaz and our many Jewish staff and leadership of hating Jews. But
our team and our members love the Jewish people, as we love all people. The
Holocaust was real, the Jewish community has long been horrifically
oppressed and still faces anti-Semitism worldwide. This campaign is not
about identity politics, or about Jews versus Palestinians. It is about
protecting basic human rights and equality, to ensure that the international
community is not complicit in the decades long systematic oppression by the
Israeli government of the Palestinian people. The goal is to achieve freedom
and peace for ALL people in the region. Sanctions are necessary to push for
this goal because the Israeli government continues to profit from the status
quo.
For more information:
Human Rights Watch Report: Israel committing
crime of apartheid
Israel’s actions in East Jerusalem are a
human rights test for Biden (Vox)
Israeli police storm al-Aqsa mosque ahead of
Jerusalem Day march (The Guardian)
What is happening in occupied East Jerusalem’s
Sheikh Jarrah? (Al Jazeera English)
Hamas fires rockets into Israel after clash
at Al-Aqsa Mosque; 20 reported dead in Gaza from Israeli airstrikes
(Associated Press)
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