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 Le CRIF contre BDS et l’antisionisme assimilés à de l’antisémitisme

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Discours de Nicole Bornstein, présidente du CRIF Rhône-Alpes, lors du dîner du CRIF Rhône-Alpes, jeudi 31 janvier 2013

“Monsieur le ministre, même si nombre d’entre nous puisent leurs racines loin dans les siècles en terre de France, beaucoup sont arrière-petit- fils, petit-fils ou fils d’étranger, qui, comme vous, ont choisi la France tolérante, la France des droits de l’homme en se naturalisant. Cette communauté de destin explique peut-être le courant de sympathie réciproque entre vous et nous.
Monsieur le ministre soyez ici le bienvenu!
J’ai beaucoup réfléchi à la façon dont j’allais m’exprimer aujourd’hui.  La tâche me paraissait très difficile.
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 L’Internationale des Services Publics s’engage contre l’apartheid israélien.

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Major trade union backs boycott of Israel

Submitted by Alice Bach on Tue, 12/04/2012 – 09:16

 One of the world’s largest cross-border trade union groups has declared its support for the campaign to boycott Israeli goods and institutions.

Meeting in Durban, South Africa last week, Public Services International (PSI) also pledged to participate in Israel Apartheid Week, an annual series of events designed to raise awareness about the discrimination and human rights abuses faced by Palestinians. PSI represents 20 million workers throughout the globe.

A resolution urging support for the Palestinian-led mobilisation for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was proposed to the PSI congress by the South African Municipal Workers Union. Approved by a large majority, the resolution stated:

“We will continue working with our partners in the trade union movement to ensure that worker solidarity is maximized locally and internationally. The slogan of the trade union movement — ‘an injury to one is an injury to all’ — rings true for the people of Palestine. The injustices and human rights abuses towards Palestinians, while living under the rule of apartheid Israel, affects us all and we will continue to mobilize for a just resolution with urgency.”

The PSI binds together some 500 public-sector unions, who deliver vital services in 150 countries. Among the major concerns of PSI are bringing union solidarity to migrating workers; violence against women; and improving infrastructures in the areas of road-building, water and sanitation, energy, and waste. The PSI has also called on the US and its allies to cease providing weapons to Israel. And it pledged to develop campaigns aimed at persuading companies who are complicit in the occupation to withdraw from any economic activity in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Welcoming the PSI vote, Muhammed Desai from the organization BDS South Africa said: “Public tenders, municipal contracts and other services must now be scrutinized by shop stewards and trade unionists to ensure that our public services are not in any way connected to Israel. There should be no normal relations with an abnormal state.”

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 Now is the time for a military embargo on Israel!

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 Now is the time for a military embargo on Israel!

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” –Nelson Mandela

Horrified at the latest round of Israeli aggression against the 1.5 million Palestinians in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip and conscious of the impunity that has enabled this new chapter in Israel’s decades-old violations of international law and Palestinian rights, we believe there is an urgent need for international action towards a mandatory, comprehensive military embargo against Israel. Such a measure has been subject to several UN resolutions[1] and is similar to the arms embargo imposed against apartheid South Africa in the past.

Israel’s unchecked belligerence and persistent denial of basic human rights and self-determination to the Palestinian people call for a concerted effort by international civil society to force world governments to end the links of complicity. This impunity has allowed Israel to continue its occupation, colonization and denial of Palestinian refugees their UN-sanctioned rights.

While the United States has been the largest sponsor of Israel, supplying billions of dollars of advanced military hardware every year, the role of the European Union must not go unnoticed, in particular its hefty subsidies to Israel’s military complex through its research programs. Similarly, the growing military ties between Israel and the emerging economies of Brazil, India and South Korea are unconscionable given their nominal support for Palestinian freedom.

Military ties with Israel have fueled relentless acts of aggression. Israel continues to entrench its subjugation of Palestinians while provoking or initiating armed conflict with its neighbors in the region.

Israel’s attempt to justify this kind of illegal use of belligerent and disproportionate military force as “self-defence” does not stand up to legal — or moral — scrutiny, as states cannot invoke self-defence for acts that serve to defend an unlawful situation which they have created in the first place[2].

We therefore support the call from Palestinian civil society for an urgent and comprehensive military embargo on Israel as an effective, non-violent measure to stop Israel’s wars and repression and to bring about Israel’s compliance with its obligations under international law. This is now a moral and legal imperative to achieve a just and comprehensive peace.

Initial List of Signatories (alphabetical order):

Udi Aloni, filmmaker, Israel
Anthony Arnove, editor and writer, US
Etienne Balibar, academic, France
Robert Ballagh, artist and president of the Ireland Institute for Historical and Cultural Studies, Ireland
Walden Bello, academic, author and member of Senate, Philippines

Shyam Benegal, director and screenwriter, India
John Berger, author, critic, UK
Howard Brenton, playwright and screenwriter, UK
Judith Butler, academic, United States
Clayborne Carson, Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute, Stanford University, USA
Noam Chomsky, academic, USA
Caryl Churchill, dramatist, UK
Angela Davis, scholar and author, US
Raymond Deane, composer, Ireland
Danilo Dolci, sociologist, Italy
John Dugard, professor of international law, South Africa
Felim Egan, artist, Ireland
Adolfo Perez Esquível, Nobel Peace Laureate 1980, Argentina

Dror Feiler, musician and artist, Sweden
Don Andrea Gallo, presbyter, Italy
Charles Glass, journalist, US
Margherita Hack, astrophysicist, Italy
Denis J. Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary-General (1994-98), Ireland
Stéphane Hessel, diplomat, Holocaust survivor and co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, France
Tor B Jørgensen, Bishop, Norway
Christian Juhl, member of Parliament, Denmark
Ronnie Kasrils, politician, South Africa
Aki Kaurismäki, screenwriter and film director, Finland
Marcel Khalife, musician, Lebanon
Naomi Klein, writer and activist, Canada
Paul Laverty, filmmaker, UK

Ken Loach, filmmaker, UK

Vibeke Løkkeberg, actress and director, Norway
Mike Leigh OBE, Director, UK (Palm D’Or 1996)
Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond, academic, France
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate 1976, Ireland
Michael Mansfield, lawyer, UK
Miriam Margolyes, actress, UK
Cynthia McKinney, politician, United States
Saeed Mirza, filmmaker, India
Luisa Morgantini, former president of the European Parliament
Bjørnar Moxnes, member of Oslo city council

Father Jeonghyeon Mun, peace activist, South Korea
Suzanne Osten, writer and director, Sweden
Nurit Peled, professor of language, Israel
John Pilger, journalist, author, filmmaker, Australia
Ahdaf Soueif, writer, Egypt/UK
Alice Walker, author, US
Roger Waters, musician, UK
John Williams, musician, UK
Vincenzo Vita, senator, Italy
Slavoj Zizek, philosopher, Slovenia

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[1] See, for example UN General Assembly Resolution 3414 (1975): “[the UNGA] Requests all states to desist

from supplying Israel with any military or economic aid as long as it continues to occupy Arab territories and

deny the inalienable national rights of the Palestinian people”.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43376#.UKEIxYdyGSo

[2]According to the basic tenet of international law, ex injuria non oritur ius (a legal right or entitlement cannot arise from an unlawful act ) http://www.definitions.uslegal.com/e/ex-injuria-jus-non-oritur/

 

 Apartheid israélien en Palestine, avec Eric David, juriste, et Julien Salingue, doctorant en sciences politiques, islamophobie et antisémitisme, par Alain Gresh

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Lors de l’Assemblée générale annuelle de l’Union juive française pour la paix, la soirée du samedi 10 novembre a été consacrée à une rencontre-débat avec Éric David, professeur émérite de droit international à l’Université libre de Bruxelles et Julien Salingue, doctorant en Sciences politiques.

Feuille2chouradio a enregistré les exposés introductifs des deux invités du samedi soir:

Apartheid Palestine Eric David juriste

Processus de paix et épuration ethnique Julien Salingue à l ‘UJFP

Islamophobie, antisémitisme, racismes, par Alain Gresh

[Passée la 1re minute où Pierre Stambul présente le conférencier, dans du bruit de fond, l'enregistrement devient audible...]

Alain Gresh islamophobie antisémitisme racismes Ag UJFP 101112

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 Berlin: Direct Action against Jewish National Fund

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Statement below in German, English, Arab, Farsi, and Hebrew

Hier das Video zur Direct Action am 4.10.2012 gegen das Benefizkonzert in Berlin zugunsten des “Jüdischen” Nationalfonds (besser: KKL-Kolonialfonds).

In dem Video ist auf einem der Plakate “Stand by Al Araqib” zu lesen; hierzu ein Foto, das im September 2012 eine Woche nach der 42ten Zerstörung des Dorfes Al Araqib innerhalb von zwei Jahren aufgenommen wurde – mit Informationen über die Rolle des “Jüdischen” Nationalfonds dort. Quelle: http://972mag.com/a-week-in-photos-september-13-19/56195/

Danach geht’s mit der Stellungnahme zur Direct Action in Berlin weiter.

Residents of the “unrecognized” village of Al-Araqib keep watch in makeshift structures built in order to maintain a presence on their village lands, September 19, 2012. Such structures were demolished the previous week on September 12 for the 42nd time in the past two years. The village is located in the southern Negev (Naqab) Desert and its residents are citizens of Israel. The Jewish National Fund intends to plant a forest where the village once stood. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

Und hier die die Stellungnahme – nach der deutschsprachigen Fassung: Englisch, Arabisch, Persisch und Hebräisch.
Statement regarding the direct action against the JNF fundraiser, 4.10.2012 in Berlin (English, German, Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew)
von Direct Action Berlin, Samstag, 6. Oktober 2012 um 00:44 ·

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 Scène d’occupation israélienne à Al Walaja le 13 novembre 2011

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Mazin Qumsiyeh libéré

I was finally released.  Israeli soldiers abducted me while filming an
attack on villagers of Al-Walaja.  The attack started with dynamiting their
village lands near their houses, a process that already shook and cracked
houses and injured some residents before (see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCDNg_ScDtU).

The villagers were speaking with soldiers demanding paperwork and telling them that court cases are pending and to stop blowing up their lands.  Instead the soldiers arrogantly pushed and shoved and as they tried to arrest one young man, a group of
Israeli soldiers and native Palestinians fell off the side of the bulldozed area of the route of the apartheid wall.  Outside of camera views, Mustafa was beaten repeatedly in the car (I was hit twice) by a mean young Israeli soldiers who said he hated Arabs.  The video we have of our abduction is at
http://youtu.be/v_GE16wmcAo

and still pictures can be seen here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills

and here
http://chroniquespalestine.blogspot.com/

 Omar Barghouti : « Reconnaître l’Etat palestinien ne mettra pas fin au régime d’apartheid israélien »

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L’initiative palestinienne à l’ONU ne fait pas l’unanimité, et déjà parmi les Palestiniens eux-mêmes. Beaucoup d’habitants de Cisjordanie comme de Gaza demeurent inquiets face à la reconnaissance de l’Etat à l’ONU, dont ils ne perçoivent pas les avantages immédiats. Certains redoutent que la direction palestinienne ne considère cette initiative comme une nouvelle opportunité de réanimer le processus de négociation d’Oslo qui n’a contribué, selon eux, qu’à accentuer l’occupation israélienne des territoires palestiniens.