Stand
with the Palestinian and
Lebanese people:
Stop Apartheid Israel NOW!
Call to Action
The military machine rolls on and, in front of the daily scenes of
killing and
destruction, the US vetoes any UN response. The Arab “leaders” are
silent,
alongside the quiet complicity of international community. It is the
people who
still pay the price and the people who continue resisting.
It is high time that Palestinians and our Arab nation felt the clear
support of
people of conscience from across the world.
Isolate Apartheid Israel!
Protest against the complicity and support to Israeli Apartheid in your
countries, academies, organizations and institutions!
Stop governments from backing the war machinery in the Middle East!
Demand the immediate withdrawal of diplomatic representatives to
Israel!
[Click here to
read the full Campaign statement]
Calls from Lebanon and
Palestine:
A call from
Haifa: our Hearts and thoughts focused on Gaza and Lebanon, Ameer
Makhoul,
Ittijah
“I want also to make clear that WE, the Palestinian citizens of Israel,
reject
Israeli propaganda which is tries to portray us all in the same boat.
We are part
of the Arab peoples, and specifically Palestinian people, and our
people are
suffering under Israeli aggression in both Gaza and the refugee camps
in
Lebanon. This is our ‘boat’ and our hearts are there these days not in
Haifa
where we are based.”
Gaza
University Teachers’ Association calls for academic and cultural
boycott of
Israel, 12th of July 2006
“We academics of Gaza universities, noting the call by the Congress of
South
African Trade Union and other South African civil society organizations
for
their government to boycott Apartheid Israel, welcome this courageous
decision.
We call on all other freedom loving people to join hands with the South
African
people in their show of solidarity with the brutally oppressed
Palestinian
people.”
Stop Israel’s
siege and attacks on Gaza, Online Petition, PENGON
“The aim of the Occupation is clear to all that want to see: breaking
Palestinian determination to resist within the Bantustans in Gaza or
the West
Bank and weakening opposition to the Israeli apartheid system faced on
a daily
basis. It is a message to all of our people within Palestine and all
over the
world that the Israeli plan for “final borders” that ghettoize our
people on
12% of our land requires our surrender – to be forced upon us via bombs
and
starvation.”
The Fifth Day
of Aggression, circular of the communist Party of Lebanon, 18th of
July.
“We academics of Gaza universities, noting the call by the Congress of
South
African Trade Union and other South African civil society organizations
for
their government to boycott Apartheid Israel, welcome this courageous
decision.
We call on all other freedom loving people to join hands with the South
African
people in their show of solidarity with the brutally oppressed
Palestinian
people.”
Appeal from
the left: Call for Action Against Israel's War on the Palestine and
Lebanon
“This aggression is a part of the Zionist-American plan for the region
and is
furthermore an act of aggression undertaken with international
permission and
cover, in particular that of the United States of America, which is
using the
Security Council and the United Nations as tools with which to exert
pressure
and control.”
A Call upon
the International and Regional Communities: Say STOP to Israeli War on
Lebanon,
Arab NGO Network for Development, 16th of July
“We call upon all concerned civil society organizations around the
world to
voice out their refusal for the current attack on Lebanon and the
ineffective
role of the United Nations whether at the level of Security Council or
at the
level of their peacekeeping troops on the grounds which are failing to
protect
the threatened civilians from the massacres resulting from Israeli
attacks on
Lebanon. We call upon Arab civil society groups to mobilize on a
regional and
international level”
Concluding
Statement of the Fourth International Convention of Al Awda, The
Palestine
Right to Return Coalition, 17th of July
“These assaults also aim to break the will of the Palestinian and
Lebanese
people, such that US imperial and Zionist hegemonic interests can reign
supreme
throughout the region. This is consistent with US policies in the Arab
East,
specifically with regards to the US occupation of Iraq, which we
likewise
continue to condemn in the strongest possible terms, while demanding
its
immediate cessation.”
Calls and statements of solidarity:
South Africans
calls for end of diplomatic ties with Apartheid Israel and prepares for
popular
mass campaigns!
“Israel is fighting the legitimate resistance of the Palestinian
people; it is
fighting the Palestinian Authority; it is fighting the Palestinian
people as a
whole. Its actions and atrocities are all a part of its collective
punishment
of the Palestinians. Israel forgets that you cannot bomb a people into
submission, and that moral right is ultimately stronger than the
executioner's
menace. As South Africans we know this only too well.”
End the
Genocide against the Palestinian people! Let us stop the new
imperialist war
that is being plotted in the middle east!. Cuban Movement for Peace and
Peoples’ Sovereignty
“How bad these times are when fascism seeks to be the standard-bearer
of
democracy and state terrorism still makes believe to a great deal of
people in
the World that wild military aggressions, territorial occupation and
genocide
against entire peoples and regions for the control of the last scraps
of
natural resources are part of the democratic vocation and of the
alleged fight
against terrorism!”
STOP the War
Coalition (Philippines) call on Gloria M. Arroyo Government to Condemn
Israel
for Escalating War in the Middle East
“We demand that the Philippine government recalls its ambassador from
Israel
and begin the process of severing all diplomatic ties with that state
until it
complies with international law and ends the occupation of Palestine.
As our
elected representatives, our government should take a stand in favor of
international law and justice, summon the Israeli ambassador to
protest, and
expressly condemn Israel for its actions in international for a and
organizations.”
NADEL (SA)
condemns Israel’s flagrant breach of international humanitarian law
“The National Association of Democratic Lawyers of South Africa
condemns the
flagrant breaches of international humanitarian law and the violations
of the
human rights of Palestinians further exacerbated by the latest attack
by Israel
on the residents of Gaza in Palestine. … Forget about the hypocrisy of
the
governments of the USA and the EU states. By virtue of our history, we
have an
obligation to support the just struggle of the Palestinian peoples
right to
self-determination.”
National
Lawyers guild urges all to act now to protest and end Israel’s crimes
against
humanity & brutal aggression against Palestine and Lebanon
“The recent devastation in Palestine and Lebanon magnifies the
ever-present
reality of the brutal, violent, and racist occupation of Palestine and
continued aggression against Lebanon. It is imperative for all people
of
conscience to stand in solidarity with our Palestinian and Lebanese
brothers
and sisters in their struggle against Israeli and U.S. occupation,
aggression
and imperialism. It is also imperative that we continue to fight for an
end to
the U.S. occupation in Iraq.”
Protests around the world:
International solidarity is
gearing up all around the world. While the international community is
muted and
complicit with the Zionist crimes, the people are going to the streets
to
protest Apartheid Israel and the international support it receives.
For an
incomplete list of protest all around the globe, click here.
Blogs and websites with
updated and information:
For
updates and testimonies on the Zionist crimes in Lebanon see: http://sanayehreliefcenter.blogspot.com, http://siegeoflebanon.blogspot.com, http://lebanonupdates.blogspot.com, http://waronlebanon.blogspot.com
For updates and testimonies on the Zionist crimes in Gaza see: http://fromgaza.blogspot.com ; http://rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm
For daily activities updates see: www.lebanonexpats.org