BRICUP is publishing the following Statement of Determination to Boycott Israel.
Please take up this statement and promote it wherever you can — in newspapers, professional and trade union journals, on internet sites.
Boycott is the key sanction we as citizens can apply to Israel. Palestinian organisations are appealing to us to do it. See http://www.bricup.org.uk/documents/Gaza/HighFollowUp.pdf and http://www.bricup.org.uk/documents/Gaza/BNC_Gaza.html
We have created a page on the BRICUP website to post key documentation on the Israeli attack http://www.bricup.org.uk/GazaEmergency.html. We are not trying to replicate the the archives being created elsewhere but will post items of special significance to BRICUP’s contribution to the worldwide campaign.
Let us do it!
A Statement of Determination to Boycott Israel Sponsored by The British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP)
Gaza’s Guernica Enough is enough
The Israeli government is sending waves of F16 fighter jets to bomb the Palestinian population of Gaza, many of whom are already weak and sick from two years of siege and encirclement by Israel. Children, says an Israeli spokeswoman, are legitimate targets because if they inhabit a house allegedly being used to manufacture home-made rockets to fire into Israel, they are ‘terrorists’ themselves. On Saturday December 27, Israel says it dropped 100 tonnes of bombs on Gaza.
We say enough is enough. As long as the state of Israel continues to defy humanity and international law, we, the citizens of the world, commit ourselves to boycotting Israel.
When Nazi planes firebombed the Basque town of Guernica in 1937, to advance General Franco’s revolt against the democratically elected Republican government, Britain, France and other European powers continued to refuse military and political support to the Republic, and Franco and his Nazi allies prevailed.
Since our governments decline to take action against Israel, we, as citizens, must act.
We declare that, in solidarity with the bombed, maimed, tortured and ethnically cleansed people of Palestine, we will, individually and collectively:
refuse to buy any fruit, vegetable, flowers, cosmetics, underwear, swimwear or piece of technology manufactured or produced in Israel or the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and we will inform shops that we object to them stocking Israeli products;
we will not go on holiday to Israel;
we will research which brands of computer contain Israeli-designed and manuctured components, make the information public, and and press all computer manufacturers to end research partnerships with Israel;
we will boycott Israeli films, theatre companies, dance groups and orchestras, and make known our objections to the management of theatres and cinemas;
we will campaign actively for our governments not to allow citizens of our countries to serve in the Israeli army, navy, airforce and security services;
we will lobby in our professional organisations and trade unions for Israeli institutions to be boycotted unless they state publicly that they oppose their government’s actions, will not co-operate with the state (for instance by teaching courses for the security services, which all Israeli universities do), and support the establishment of a viable Palestinian state.
Signed:
Professor Jonathan Rosenhead, London
Professor Haim Bresheeth, London
Abe Hayeem, London
Mike Cushman, London
Professor Keith Hammond, Glasgow
Professor Ghada Karmi, Exeter
Jenny Morgan, London
Dr. Sue Blackwell, Birmingham
28 December 2008
WE ASK YOU TO JOIN US AND TAKE ACTION!
What you can also do:
1. Join or organize emergency protests and direct actions in partnership with Palestine solidarity and social justice organisations in your area.
Send reports of actions you participate in so this information can be shared with people around the world.
2. Donate money through:
Medical Aid for Palestine
http://www.map-uk.org/ <http ://www.map-uk.org/
Middle East Children’s Alliance
https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=1171 to pay for desperately needed medical supplies and their delivery. The current conditions in Gaza medical facilities are dire.
3. Flood Israeli embassies and consulates with letters and calls decrying the attacks. Find contact info for Israeli embassies around the world.
http://www.learn4good.com/travel/israel_embassies.htm
4. Shift the framing of Israel’s actions in the media by phoning into a talk show or writing a letter to the editor.
5. Sign the petition in support of UN General Assembly President Father Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/IJAN_Brockmann_BDS/
He has spoken out to condemn Israeli Apartheid and called for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
6. Write to your member of parliament.
If you are in the UK, you can find your MP’s details on this site:
http://www.writetothem.com/
Just enter your postcode.
7. If you are in Europe write to you MEP
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members.do
8-11. If you are in the UK you can do the following (or the equivalents if you live elsewhere)
8. Write to:
(a) the Labour Party using this online form:
http://www.labour.org.uk/contact
(b) the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron
(You could mention you are appalled that he has been on the BBC calling for restraint on all sides when nearly 300 Palestinians have been killed.)
9. British Consulate Jerusalem
+972 (02) 541 4100
10. British Embassy Tel Aviv
+972 (02) 3510 1167 / +972 (03) 527 1572
Call them.
11. Fax the office of the UK Prime Minister – Gordon Brown –
on +44 20 7925 0918
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