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13 oct 2019
Israel Threatens PA with Serious Consequences in Response to Boycott on Israeli Livestock
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The Israeli government has threatened the Palestinian Authority (PA) with serious consequences, in the case it continues boycotting the import of cattle and other livestock from Israel.

The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Major General Camille Abu Roken, Saturday, stated that, if Palestinian authority does not stop the boycott, it will suffer serious consequences.

He said that Israel is to stop importing Palestinian agriculture products if it persists its boycotting policy. “Israel will not allow any boycott of any kind of Israeli products,” he said, commenting on the unilateral decision of the Palestinian Authority.

He added that, after considering several approaches to resolve the issue, they warned the Palestinians that not returning things to the former will result in not allowing the entry of a significant amount of Palestinian agricultural products to Israel.

The spokesperson for PA, Ibraheem Melhem, in a statement, rejected the Israeli threats, considering it a continuation of the policy of annexation, settlement and Judaization held by the Israeli leaders.

The government, according to the statement, “upholds the right to diversify the sources of import, as stipulated in the Paris Economic Agreement, and it will continue to seek to replace Israeli goods with Arab products.”

Melhem pointed out that the Palestinian move came within the framework of the strategic vision of the gradual disengagement from the occupation.

Last September, the Palestinian government announced a complete and definitive halt to the import of a number of goods from Israel. It attributed the decision to its policy of economic disengagement from the “occupation economy.”

Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency further notes that the Israeli market is a major importer of agriculture products in the West Bank; the amount of agricultural products exported from the West Bank, to Israel, is about 280-300 tons per day, according to Palestinian data.

10 oct 2019
Bollywood: Stand Against Apartheid!
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By Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) / India

One of the stars booked to perform at Indofest TLV has said the event is cancelled.

At the time of writing, tickets are still on sale via the event website, and no formal announcement of cancellation has been made.

Bollywood film stars and celebrities, including Anil Kapoor and Sophie Choudhry, are due to perform at ‘Indo Fest TLV’ in Israel later this month. A similar event last year was indefinitely postponed after a BDS campaign.

These events are part of the ‘Brand Israel’ project, which works hard to exploit the Indian film industry to whitewash, or art-wash its violations of international law and Palestinian human rights.

Michael Oren, as a senior representative of the far-right Israeli government, urged Bollywood producers to invest in Israel during a trip to Mumbai.

He admitted that the aim of his visit was to “fight BDS” Israeli prime minister Netanyahu said, “we want Bollywood in Israel”.

While Israel is using Bollywood to cover up for its crimes, it is selling arms worth over a billion dollars each year to India. Israel’s drones, guns and missiles are fuelling India’s militarization, most evident today in the over two month long blockade in Kashmir.

Across the world, the artistic community is taking action to expose Israel’s crimes. Help us reach the artists participating in this event with this message of global solidarity with Palestinians.

We invite you to contact them on social media and remind them how their participation in this event will serve the art-washing agenda of Israel’s far-right apartheid regime.

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Don’t let your art be used as a tool by Israel’s far-right apartheid regime to mask its crimes against Palestinians: Withdraw from Indo Fest TLV! #BollywoodStandAgainstApartheid https://bdsmovement.net/bollywoodstandagainstapartheid

You can find them on Twitter and Instagram, for example:
Anil Kapoor
Twitter: @AnilKapoor
Instagram: anilskapoor
Sophie Choudry
Twitter: @Sophie_Choudry
Instagram: sophiechoudry

8 oct 2019
Holding back UN blacklist of companies working in settlements encourages impunity
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The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlement has described the UNs’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet’s abstention from disseminating the names of all companies working in the settlement, as a clear political, legal and moral violation of human rights, and contradict its rights, especially, resolution 31/36 of 2016 and the commitment made by Bachelet in March 2019 to the Head of the Human Rights’ Council.

The National Bureau confirmed that Bachelet behaves in double standard, and bows to the American and Israeli pressures as well as some EU countries on her, and on the Human Rights Council, while she has to carry out neutrally her mission to protect the rights of Palestinian citizens in the territories occupied since June 1967, but also to ensure respect for the law from all governmental and non-governmental bodies concerned with human rights, and to ensure the provision of tools and standards to promote the implementation of the law and international standards, especially as Israel stepping up, with the support of the US administration, the building of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

According to the latest data of the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics of 2018, the number of settlers in the West Bank, excluding occupied Jerusalem, reached 427,800, i.e. 4.77% of the Israeli population.

The population growth rate in Israel in 2018 was 1.9%, while the growth rate in settlement was about 3.5%. 4400 settlers i.e. 8050 born or transfer to in the West Bank, According to the data, about 3,000,000 people live in the West Bank, 14% of whom are settlers, with 2,636,244 Palestinians in the West Bank and 284,926 in East Jerusalem.

In Jerusalem, a half year on the opening of the Rami Levi Trade Center. He announced the establishment of the third stage of the so called Attirot Industrial Zone in Qalqqndia with an investment of NIS 45 million, funded by the Israeli Ministry of Economy, and Land Authority in cooperation with the occupation municipality in Jerusalem.

The third phase will be completed on an area of 50 dunums, 11 factories are scheduled to be built within the next 3 years, and the construction of 93 new housing units by the end of 2020 in the settlement “Ramat Shlomo” that built on Sha’fat lands. 1500 housing units are submitted to the Organizing Committees for approval. That is just a beginning of future projects in the settlement.

By the end of the week 2018 and the beginning of 2019, the number of settlers reached about 427,800, i.e. 4.77% in the West Bank excluding Jerusalem. The population growth rate in Israel in 2018 was 1.9%, while the number of settlers out of 14,400, more than half of which is 8,050 i.3. 56%.

According to the data, about 3 million people live in the West Bank, 14% of whom are settlers, with 2,636,244 Palestinians in the West Bank 284,926 in East Jerusalem.

On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, the International Socialist Organization (ISI) condemned the policies of the Israeli occupation in Palestine, and the statements made by the Israeli PM Netanyahu to annex the Jordan Valley and demolish houses.

It reiterated its support for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the June 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capita,l and the right of refugees to return.

7 oct 2019
Israel Considers Withdrawing Residency of BDS Co-founder Omar al-Barghouti
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Israeli Minister of Interior Arye Deri has ordered the so-called “Population and Immigration Authority” to prepare a legal opinion so as to revoke the residency status of the co-founder of the ‘Boycott-Divestment-Sactions’ (BDS) movement Omar al-Barghouti, for breach of trust.

In recent years, the Israeli government has been fighting Omar al-Barghouti, for his efforts and activities aiming at supporting the political boycott of Israel, Haaretz newspaper reported.

The newspaper indicated that al-Barghouti, a resident of Akko, was detained in 2017 by Israeli police, adding that MK Katy Shitrit asked Israeli Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber and Interior Minister Arye Deri, at that time, to work on deporting him.

The Interior Minister said that he intends to quickly withdraw the residency of al-Barghouti, and ban him from the rights of citizenship.

In turn, the leader of the Arab Joint List, Ayman Odeh, said that revoking residency or citizenship is anti-democratic, adding that today it’s al-Barghouti, and tomorrow it could be anyone who does not agree with the Israeli government, with its occupation policy and Jewish supremacist laws, saying, “We will fight to protect our rights by all legal means.”

The Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement is an international movement sparked by 150 Palestinian organizations in 2015, modeled after the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa in the 1980s. It aims at pressuring Israel using economic means to try to get Israel to adhere to its obligations under international law and withdraw its military forces and paramilitary colonial settlers from the Occupied Territories of Palestine.

4 oct 2019
Amazon, Israel, and the Occupation of Palestine
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photo: Apartment building in Gaza after bombing by Israeli aircraft.

IAI, which services 80% of Amazon’s cargo planes, also provides aircraft, missiles, and other weapons to the Israeli government.


On September 22nd, Amazon quietly launched its operations in Israel, offering local delivery from a number of Israeli brands, with a Hebrew-language version of its Israel platform coming soon.

Consumers in Israel now have faster and broader access to the world’s largest e-commerce marketplace, yet questions remained unanswered about Amazon’s ties with Israeli military, financial, and technology companies involved in the Occupation of Palestine as well as  accusations of anti-Palestinian bias against the platform and its founder Jeff Bezos.

Though Amazon Israel was launched barely two weeks ago, Amazon’s business operations with Israel go back much further. As early as 2015, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) began servicing Amazon’s fleet of cargo planes, and now services 80% of Amazon’s aircraft.

IAI is a wholly Israeli state owned aerospace and weapons manufacturer which supplies the Israeli army with aircraft, drones, missiles, armored vehicles, spy satellites and more.

Its weapons have been used in assassinations and military invasions of Gaza. In the 1970s, IAI sold weapons to the Shah of Iran, and more recently, a UN report in August this year found IAI had sold weapons to Myanmar’s military after it began its genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya minority.

IAI subsidiary Elta North America was recently commissioned to build a prototype of Donald Trump’s wall on the US-Mexico border. Amazon also works with Israeli technology firm NSLComm, which receives funding from the Israeli government, and builds network satellites “that will be used for… military applications”, according to Haaretz.

While Amazon’s ties with IAI and NSLComm are rarely reported in the media, its multi-million dollar contracts with another security firm has attracted widespread condemnation and protest.

Amazon makes millions off providing web servers and database storage for Palantir, a private US data analysis firm which aids Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in identifying and deporting migrants. 

A petition this summer for Amazon to cut ties with Palantir and ICE gained over 270,000 signatures. Palantir also provides the Israeli government with so-called “predictive systems”, which analyze social media posts to identify Palestinians deemed a “threat”.

The result of Palantir’s racially profiled analytics systems is that Palestinians are arrested and face long prison sentences for simply posting photos of family members killed by Israeli forces or in prison, citing Quranic verses, or calling for protests.

In the financial sector, Amazon signed agreements this year with Bank Hapoalim and Bank Leumi, two major Israeli banking institutions, to provide discounts to Amazon customers using Leumi and Hapoalim bank accounts.

A 2018 report by Human Rights Watch found both banks guilty of financing construction and expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank, while Bank Leumi also funds academic institutions in illegal settlements and programs for IDF recruits, even sponsoring gift packages and additional vacation days for Israeli soldiers during the 2014 invasion of Gaza, in which over 2,200 Palestinians, including more than 550 children, were killed.

Pension funds and banks in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the UK have divested from Bank Leumi and Hapoalim due to their human rights violations, while Amazon signs new cooperation agreements with them.

Amazon’s dealings with Israeli companies supporting and profiting from the Occupation aside, many more questions remain. The most troubling of these questions surround t  how Amazon Israel will deal with realities on the ground in its operations.

Will Amazon deliver to customers in illegal settlements? Will Amazon sell products manufactured or grown on Palestinian land seized by armed settlers and considered illegal by the UN and the international community? Will Amazon give Palestinian and Israeli sellers equal access to its platform?

A quick look at Amazon’s policies on its global site, amazon.com, give some indication as to how it might run its Israeli site.

The IDF Logo
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Last year, Amazon removed a top-selling T-shirt that reads “Make Israel Palestine Again”, on the grounds that it did not fulfill Amazon’s content policy. 

Amazon’s content policy prohibits the sale of “products that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual, or religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views.” Amazon seems to have no problem, however, with selling “IDF” merchandise; at the time of writing this article, IDF T shirts, dresses, Halloween costumes, and even baby clothes were available on its global site.

The occupation army has been accused of racism, sexism, religious intolerance, and countless acts of violence, torture, and human rights violations, not only by Palestinians but also by Israeli soldiers.

Amazon president, CEO, and largest shareholder Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world since 2017 (and according to Forbes, the richest man in history) has yet to speak publicly about Palestine or Israel; he rarely gives public comments on any political issues.

But indications of the Amazon founder’s political stances can be seen in the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos purchased the US paper for $250 million USD and has been its sole owner since October 2013.

The Washington Post has published a wide range of articles on Israel and Palestine, and a quick look at their articles and editorials since Bezo’s takeover in October 2013 shows where its editorial staff and leadership stand.

It describes the shooting of unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza by Israeli snipers as “clashes”, and Netanyahu as a “prudent, even cautious, statesman” who “quietly restrained the building of Jewish settlements”, even though during his last 10 years in office over 20,000 settlement units were built in the Occupied West Bank.
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From the Washington Post (of which Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the sole owner) on May 6, 2019. Israelis are killed, but Palestinians just “die”.

One Washington Post article, titled “Palestinians Kill 3 Israelis as Violence Mounts in ‘Day of Rage’”, acknowledges only in the 6th paragraph that “28 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis.”

Israelis are routinely described as “killed”, but Palestinians merely “die”.

Another article on electricity cuts in Gaza makes sure to inform the readers in the headline that “it’s not all Israel’s fault”. Last year, the Washington Post ran a full page advert calling New Zealand artist Lorde a “bigot” for canceling a concert in Israel.

Jennifer Rubin, a journalist for the Washington post, once retweeted an article describing Palestinians as “death-worshiping, innocent-butchering, child-sacrificing savages”, “devils spawn”, and “unmanned animals” who should be thrown “into the sea, to float there, food for sharks”.

Her writing in the Washington Post declared that endorsements of the one-state solution “amount to calls for genocide”, and called then–Secretary of State John Kerry “intentionally obtuse”–or a liar–for not denouncing the Palestinian right of return. The Washington Post has rejected calls to remove Rubin for promoting racism and Islamophobia.

Given Amazon’s record of involvement with corporations deeply entrenched in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, there is a high possibility of Amazon Israel failing to comply with international and human rights law in its Israeli operations.

Should it fail to respect international law and engage in operations directly normalizing, supporting, and profiting from violations of Palestinian rights, Amazon may face boycott calls similar to those taken by BDS against companies like HSBC, SodaStream, Airbnb, Caterpillar, and Hewlett Packard.

It remains to be seen what kind of corporate values Amazon Israel will deliver.
Originally posted by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

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