With thanks to Mazin Qumsiyeh

With thanks to Mazin Qumsiyeh

(please act and forward)

Every day brings new sophisticated ways of ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinians while expanding the colonial settlements that increasing surround the few remaining Bantustans where those of us who remain here try to cling to a semblance of life (and not just the areas occupied since 1967 but also in places like Jaffa, the Negev, and the Galilee). I would like to impose on you to read a few of these case studies that are compiled by the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ) for the West Bank. You will be disturbed to see extremely well documented examples of the violence of land confiscation and ethnic cleansing. If you review just a few of those hundreds of stories, you will likely ask yourself why there is so little violent resistance! While awaiting International Criminal Courts to finally take-up these cases, we need to think what we can do together. How much can we get beyond our normal functioning and expand our activism and/or make it more effective (while guarding against compassion fatigue). The best answer for most people is to engage in boycotts, divestments, and sanctions based on the Palestinian Civil Society Call to Action and we urge you to join the call (see below).

ARIJ’s Case Studies (in Ethnic Cleansing and apartheid master plans)

http://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/index.php?Y=2009

ACTION:

1) Sign as individual or ask your favorite organization to sign onto the Palestinian Civil Society Call for Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions

http://www.bdsmovement.net/?q=node/52
2) Add the BDS endorsement page on your home page for the month of March
3) Participate and encourage others to participate in the March 30 Global Day of Action: http://www.bdsmovement.net/?q=node/314

Articles of relevance

Israelis Are Beginning to See the Power of BDS

http://www.alternativenews.org/content/view/1605/381/

Boycott Israel

http://www.qumsiyeh.org/boycottisrael/

Boycotts and Divestment (background and links)

http://www.qumsiyeh.org/boycottsanddivestment


Palestinians in Christian housing fear return of Israeli bulldozers, by Judith Sudilovsky, Ecumenical News International, March 2, 2009

http://www.pcusa.org/pcnews/2009/09157.htm


Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD

A Bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home

http://qumsiyeh.org