October 2009

Stop Apartheid! BUY PRODUCTS

Israeli apartheid against Palestinians and the call to boycott Israel

David Comedi

The State of Israel practiced colonialism and apartheid, says a South African study, published in June this year (

http://ar.globedia.com/estudio-sudafricano-afirma-israel-practica- colonialism, apartheid and territory

). The characteristics of the policies Israel conducts fit into the "inhumane acts committed with the purpose to establish and maintain domination by one racial group over any other racial group and their systematic oppression." So says the report of the South African government organization "Council of Human Science Research (HSRC, for its acronym in English), made by academics and practitioners of international law in South Africa, United Kingdom, Israel and the West Bank. Result of 15 months of research, consultation and comprehensive review of Israeli practices in the Occupied Territories in relation to definitions of colonialism and apartheid collected by the International Law The study shows that the three pillars of apartheid are met rigorously. The first pillar is reflected in laws and policies established Israeli Jewish identity and superior legal status and material benefits to those Jews who can not access non-Jews. The latter applies in the "Israeli policy of fragmentation of the Occupied Territories to confine Palestinians to reservations." This policy aims at the appropriation of large portions of Palestinian land, which progressively reduces the space available to the Palestinians. "The deliberate amputation of East Jerusalem from the West Bank and the construction and ownership policies intended to convert West Bank in an intricate web of well-connected Jewish settlements an archipelago of isolated Palestinian enclaves under siege, "denounced the document. The third pillar is reflected in the" continual invocation of security by Israel to justify restrictions on freedom of opinion , expression, assembly, association and movement of Palestinians that masks an attempt to suppress dissent and maintain systems of domination and control over the Palestinians as a group. "

A month earlier, a group of experts Western, after a rigorous study of the effects of the operation "molten lead" conducted by the Israeli army in Gaza, called to judge the state of Israel for genocide http://www.publico.es/internacional/224666/informe/recomienda/juzgar/israel/genocidio . Done Copy selction

During the invasion, the army destroyed over 3,000 homes and damaged another 11,000. About 250 factories and 700 private businesses were completely or partially damaged, as happened with 15 hospitals and 43 primary care centers.

To complete the picture, we read in newspapers (The Gazette, 9/20/1909) that "peace talks mediated by U.S. and Egypt, between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are, as we've heard hundreds of times in the last 60 years, bogged down. The stated reason now is the refusal of Israel to freeze settlement building illegal Jewish settlers in the Palestinian territories. Is there any doubt that, as happened with apartheid in South Africa in late 1980, the only peaceful solution to these abuses is the application of economic and cultural boycott the State of Israel as a way to pressure their people to stop the inhuman apartheid against the Palestinians?

Without pressure on Israel, there is no solution.