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31 aug 2019
BDS Calls for Boycott on AnyVision, Israel’s “Field-tested” Facial Recognition Surveillance Company
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Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) / Israel, United States

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling for the boycott of AnyVision, Israel’s facial recognition technology firm, due to its irrefutable complicity in Israel’s occupation and repression of Palestinians. 

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) calls for boycotting AnyVision, Israel’s facial recognition technology firm, due to its irrefutable complicity in Israel’s occupation and repression of Palestinians.

AnyVision profits from Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights and exports its repressive surveillance technology globally.

With offices in Tel Aviv, New York, Mexico, London, Belfast and Singapore, the company was founded in 2015 and has quickly gained investments, contracts and joint ventures with the Israeli military, governments and companies internationally.

Human Rights Watch has called on Microsoft to review its investments in AnyVision given the “human rights risk associated with the investment in a company that’s providing [facial recognition] technology to an occupying power.” AnyVision violates Microsoft’s own principles on facial recognition because they provide technology used for unlawful surveillance.

HPE, which supplies servers to Israel’s population control registry, a pillar of its apartheid system, uses AnyVision facial recognition technology in its servers.

Spanish telecommunications transnational Telefónica and G4S also use AnyVision’s technology. The city of Nice, France, surveils citizens with AnyVision and entry to the London stadium was surveilled by AnyVision last summer.

Enabling the occupation

AnyVision plays a direct role in Israel’s military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, which includes Israel’s illegal wall and military checkpoints.

According to the Israeli army, AnyVision is part of a “program to upgrade” military checkpoints in the West Bank through adding technology for new “identification and inspection stations”. Anyvision also maintains cameras for the Israeli military deep inside the West Bank to spy on  Palestinians and enable the Israeli military’s illegal targeting of civilians.

AnyVision promotes itself as a company of “AI Designers & Security Veterans” with  over 20 years of “field experience”. AnyVision president, Amir Kain, is former head of the security department at Israel’s Ministry of Defense. One of its advisers, Tamir Pardo, is former head of the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency.

Israel’s “defense” ministry is responsible for carrying out repeated war crimes and crimes against humanity in the occupied Palestinian territory, including massacres in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem. The Mossad is a criminal agency that directly enables violations of international law and Palestinian human rights through illegal covert operations and extra-judicial killings.

The Israeli government systematically supports private companies in exporting its repressive technology and tactics for profit. The profits made from this dirty business serve to offset Israel’s military spending and other costs of its apartheid regime.

Exporting repression

Civil rights organizations and academics in the U.S. have raised alarm over the use of facial recognition. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has warned that this technology has “enormous civil liberties implications”, and legal scholar Woodrow Hartzog described it as “the most uniquely dangerous surveillance mechanism ever invented”.

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) appeals to people of conscience to boycott and divest from AnyVision until it ends its violations of human rights worldwide. In particular, we call for pressure on Microsoft to drop its shameful relationship with and investment in AnyVision as they violate Microsoft’s own principles on facial recognition.

The BDS movement has also called for a boycott of HP companies due to their deep complicity in Palestinian human rights violations. Their complicity is now deeper given their collaboration with AnyVision.

We call on academic institutions and conscientious academics to refrain from collaborating with AnyVision in order not to provide scholarly legitimacy to grave violations of international law.

Related: 08/31/19 Orwellian Surveillance of Tohono O’odham Nation – A Test Case for Entire US Border?

30 aug 2019
Pacbi Welcomes Statement by More Than 500 Filmmakers Against “Close Up” Initiative Normalizing Israeli Apartheid
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Palestinian Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

Filmmakers denounce “Close up,” a new documentary film project that aims to normalize relations with Israel as if it were a normal state, not a regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid.

The Palestinian Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) warmly welcomes the statement signed to date by more than 500 filmmakers, primarily from the Arab world, denouncing “Close up,” a new documentary film project that violates the anti-normalization guidelines agreed on by the vast majority of Palestinian civil society. PACBI calls for boycotting this complicit project.

Under the banner of Filmmakers Against Normalization, the directors and film professionals urge their colleagues not to collaborate with “Close Up,” an initiative that aims to normalize relations of Arab, Iranian, Afghani and other filmmakers with Israel as if it were a normal state, not a regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid. This directly conflicts with the relevant BDS guidelines that call for co-resistance with progressive Israelis to end Israel’s system of injustice, rather than fraudulent “co-existence” that normalizes and perpetuates this system.

Close up and similar normalization projects pose a false premise of parity between the oppressors and the oppressed and implies that both are equally responsible for the “conflict.” Normalization initiatives help whitewash Israel’s ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people and undermine the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality.

Close Up is a spin-off of the Greenhouse Film Centre. Close Up’s founding members comprise the Greenhouse director and four of its partners.
Greenhouse is a project of the Israeli government-funded New Fund for Cinema and Television (NFCT).

In 2006, Palestinian filmmakers raised serious concerns over Greenhouse being shortlisted for a grant from the EU Euromed Audiovisual program. At the time, Greenhouse was run by NFCT in partnership with the wholly discredited Ramallah Film Institute (RFI), which served as a fig leaf.

RFI had already been banned by the Palestinian Ministry of Culture over failure to provide audited financial and administrative reports and its entire board had resigned in protest over its director’s professional misconduct.

In their letter to Euromed, the filmmakers stated:

“We realize how important this funding can be for the development of documentary film practices in the region and especially in Palestine. However, in order for Palestinian filmmakers to benefit from such an opportunity to develop their film careers, we believe this funding must be channeled in an acceptable framework, that is transparent, trusted, and rooted in the community.
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“We would hope that, considering that we live under a harsh military occupation and an apartheid system, that it is understandable why we would not want to work with organizations that are part of the same government that imposes this system on us.”

The letter from Palestinian filmmakers was supported by nearly 70 Israeli film professionals and artists.

Of the 41 completed films listed on the Greenhouse website, nearly 40% are listed as Israeli productions or co-productions. Of the five Palestinian films, only two are listed without Israel co-production.

Given its roots, Close Up appears destined to repeat its predecessor’s pattern of favoring Israeli filmmakers for funding while normalizing Israel’s apartheid regime in the region.

We echo the call from Filmmakers Against Normalization urging film professionals to refuse to collaborate in any way with Close Up or its affiliated initiatives. We call on international filmmakers to support the call from Filmmakers Against Normalization by adding their names to the statement.

Visit BDS official for more news.

25 aug 2019
#BoycottPuma Round Two: Join Second Global Day of Action, October 26
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(photo: Groups around the world are gearing up for the second day of action protesting Puma’s support for Israel’s illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land. Join them on October 26!)

by  Palestinian Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)


Across the world, fans of fair play and sports for everyone are joining the call from Palestinian teams and athletes to boycott sportswear manufacturer Puma until it ends support for Israel’s illegal military occupation and denial of Palestinian human rights.

Puma is the main sponsor of the Israel Football Association (IFA), which proudly includes and advocates on behalf of teams in Israeli settlements pushing Palestinian families off their land. Israeli settlements are illegal and constitute a war crime under international law.

Last June, groups in more than 20 countries joined the first Global #BoycottPuma Day of Action, with protests at Puma shops and offices and at Puma-sponsored teams. On social media, #BoycottPuma was THE most tweeted Puma-related hashtag that day.
We’re back for round two.

Join the Second Global #BoycottPuma Day of Action, October 26, 2019.

Register your group’s interest now to receive updates and material.

Puma is feeling the pressure. To sideline criticism, Puma is resorting to ridiculous claims, including a “devotion to universal equality.”
A “devotion to universal equality” must mean not sporting with apartheid! It requires Puma to end its:

  • complicity in whitewashing Israel’s illegal land grabs that rob Palestinians of territory and natural resources.
  • support for Israel’s occupation infrastructure that denies Palestinian athletes their rights to freedom of movement and to practice sports.
  • sponsorship of the Israel Football Association.

This year’s Palestine Football Cup has been postponed indefinitely because Israel has denied permits for virtually all players from the winning team of the Gaza League to travel to the occupied West Bank for the finals. Just last week, Israeli forces raided a family football tournament in occupied East Jerusalem, preventing it from going ahead.

Puma’s iconic leaping cat is profiting from Israel’s ever-expanding illegal settlement enterprise and its denial of basic Palestinian human rights.
Join us as we step up pressure on Puma to live up to its claim of promoting social justice.

Register your group’s interest for the Second Global #BoycottPuma Day of Action, October 26, 2019
Action links at BDS official.

19 aug 2019
Prime Minister urges South Korean not to include settlements in trade agreement with Israel
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Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh today urged the government of South Korea not to include the illegal settlement products in the free trade agreement it intends to sign with Israel.

Shtayyeh told the weekly Palestinian cabinet meeting held in Ramallah that Foreign Minister Riyad Malki is going to get in touch with the South Koreans to press them on excluding the settlement products in their free trade agreement with Israel.

Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are considered illegal under international law and many governments insist on labelling settlement products as made in the settlements and not in Israel, as is the case with the Europe Union.

17 aug 2019
BDS movement calls to boycott three anti-Palestinian German clubs
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The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights called last week for the boycott of three anti-Palestinian German clubs because of their complicity in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians, according to a statement by the Israel boycott movement.

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding member of the largest Palestinian civil society coalition that leads the global BDS movement, called in a statement for boycott of Conne Island in Leipzig, Golden Pudel in Hamburg, and ://about blank in Berlin.

“Conne Island, Golden Pudel and ://about blank have, to varying degrees, demonstrated glaring and persistent anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism.

All three are complicit in promoting Israel’s regime of apartheid, settler-colonialism and occupation and shielding it from criticism and accountability in accordance with international law,” said PACBI.

“These clubs have repeatedly cancelled or denied performances to electronic artists who have given their support to the inspiring #DJsforPalestine initiative, engaging in censorship, intimidation and outrageous suppression of freedom of expression.”

PACBI said the three clubs have taken measures against DJs who support Palestinian rights and denied them appearance in shows in Germany.

“Conne Island, Golden Pudel and ://about blank should end their shameful complicity in whitewashing Israel’s decades-old oppression against Palestinians, especially by ending their censorship,” said PACBI.

“Until then, we urge artists and cultural workers to refuse offers from these repressive, anti-Palestinian venues, and we call on progressive club-goers to refrain from attending, in support of freedom of expression and in principled opposition to racism, censorship and intimidation against progressive artists who support Palestinian human rights.”

Update : Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Declines Israel’s Conditions
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Detroit born congresswoman Rashida Tlaib released a statement, Friday, regarding Israel’s decision to allow her into the occupied Palestinian territories.

“In my attempt to visit Palestine, I’ve experienced the same racist treatment that many Palestinian-Americans endure when encountering the Israeli government. In preparation for my visit, my grandmother was deciding which fig tree we would pick from together, while Palestinians and Israelis who are against the illegal military occupation were looking forward to Members of Congress finally listening to and seeing them for the first time.”

“The Israeli government used my love and desire to see my grandmother to silence me and made my ability to do so contingently upon my signing a letter – reflecting just how undemocratic and afraid they are of the truth my the trip would reveal about what is happening in the State of Israel and to Palestinians living under occupation with United States support.”

“I have therefore decided not to travel to Palestine and Israel at this time. Visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions meant to humiliate me would break my grandmother’s heart. Silencing me with treatment to make me feel less-than is not what she wants for me – it would kill a piece of me that always stands up against racism and injustice.”

“When I won the election to become a United States Congresswoman, many Palestinians, especially my grandmother, felt a sense of hope, a hope that they would finally have a voice. I cannot allow the Israeli government to take that away from them or to use my deep desire to see my grandmother, potentially for the last time, as a political bargaining chip.

My family and I have cried together throughout this ordeal; they’ve promised to keep my grandmother alive until I can one day reunite with her.”

“It is with their strength and heart that I reiterate I am a duly elected United States Congresswoman and I will not allow the Israeli government to humiliate me and my family or take away our right to speak out. I will not allow the Israeli government to take away from our hope.”

“Racism and the politics of hate is thriving in Israel and the American people should fear what this will mean for the relationship between our two nations.

If you truly believe in democracy, then the close alignment of Netanyahu with Trump’s hate agenda must prompt a re-evaluation of our unwavering support for the State of Israel.”

“The denial of entry of a congressional delegation is not only about Congresswoman Omar and I, but also about the deep-rooted racism within Israel that is taking us further away from peace.”

“The Israeli and Palestinian people need us to be more courageous and to be honest brokers of peace. Being silent and not condemning the human rights violations of the Israeli government is a disservice to all who live there, including my incredibly strong and loving grandmother.”

“This type of oppression is painful for all humanity, but it is especially painful for me personally every time I hear my loving family members cry out for the freedom to live and the right to feel human.”

Source : Palestine News Network

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