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 Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) including all its local branches, in partnership with the Trade Union Congress
(TUC), has launched a campaign to ban the import of goods and produce from illegal Israeli settlements into the UK.
The sale of these goods helps to economically bolster the illegal settlements, which now occupy over 40% of West
Bank land, and strengthens the illegal occupation.
This must end. The Palestinians have a right to live with dignity, free from occupation.
The British government and the international community has recognised that the settlements are illegal and an
obstacle to peace. Yet goods from Palestine's stolen land - including fruit, herbs and beauty products - continues to
be sold in our shops and supermarkets.
Get involved. You can help to take these stolen goods from stolen lands off our supermarket shelves.
While settlement goods and produce remain on sale in the UK, the Palestinians have urged people of conscience to
boycott them. And, internationally, calls for boycott, sanctions and disinvestment from Israel are also growing stronger. Click here to read why Ronnie Kasrils, a former member of South Africa's ANC government, thinks the 'time
is ripe for boycott' in the UK.
Please click here to download the PSC file of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
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Dear Friends, Supporters & Members,
The most important thing you can do to help Palestinians! This is something really easy to
promote the Boycott Israeli Goods campaign. This campaign puts pressure on Israel to
respect Human Rights and International Law.
Many of you are now using supermarket deliveries. Please when doing this, on each
occasion in the 'remarks/requests/delivery instruction' box, put the statement NO ISRAELI PRODUCTS PLEASE
and ask your friends to do likewise. This will put pressure on Tesco,
Waitrose, Sainsburys, Asda, Ocado etc not to stock israeli products. It is easy to do,
requires no confrontation and will have a dramatic effect on the buying policies of Supermarkets.
Peter
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BDS Actions (Local Norwich Branch)
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 Dear PSC Supporter,
A leafletting of the Norwich public will take place on Saturday January 28th 2012 at the end of The Walk opposite M&S (see map). We will be there from 10:00 am to
1:30 pm, but please come for any period within these times that you can manage.
Wrap up warm and give out leaflets explaining the plight of Palestinians and encourage shoppers to Boycott Israeli Goods.
All materials supplied.
Peter can supply more details if required (contact Peter).
Any suggestions for other actions are welcome.
Happy New Year,
Peter,
Norwich PSC
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Please click here to read the briefing of the leafletting for the actions mentioned above.
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I pledge that I will never knowingly buy Israeli goods until
Israel complies with international law and recognises Palestinian rights.
Please, click here to go the Boycott Pledge page
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Take Apartheid off the Menu! A European Day of Action
Against Israeli Agricultural Produce Exporters – November 26, 2011
“Export of Israeli agricultural produce is at the heart of Israel's apartheid regime over the
Palestinian people. It is an integral component of the ongoing process of colonisation and environmental
destruction of Palestinian land, the theft of water, and the abuse of Palestinian workers' rights...” Read more by clicking here or download the statement as PDF file.
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Please click here to read the briefing of the leafletting for the street leafletting action. This briefing applies
to all streets leafletting actions.
To read the
DEFRA (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, released last year on 10 December 2009) Guide Line, please click here.
Defra has stated that: “producers cannot simply label a product as 'packed in the UK' as
this may be misleading to the actual country of origin of the ingredient and would be
illegal under food labelling legislation”
Super markets’ responses
We have received some responses to the letters sent by our “BIG” officer Peter Norton and Chair Keith Rowley.
Please click on the links below for each letter (all are in jpg image format):
Please notice that all are welcome to post their response or feedback with regard to any BIG issue. Please use this page for your feedback.
Click here to read some basic facts about the Israeli settlements built in the West Bank, and their impact on the
daily lives of the Palestinians.
Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign - Ten Years On
July 4th 2011, marks the tenth anniversary of the launch by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign of the boycott of
Israeli goods at a meeting at the House of Commons, London in 2001. Many other organisations and individuals
supported this response to the call from Palestinian civil society for international action for boycotts, divestment and
sanctions upon Israel.
Please click here to see documents from our archive which show the original statements and signatories to the
campaign.
Palestinian civil society welcomes Agrexco liquidation, calls for celebration of this BDS victory
- Supporters of Palestinian rights claim victory as target Agrexco ordered into liquidation
- Court papers warn that company is Israeli symbol whose downfall will have ‘wider impli cations’
- Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions National Committee (BNC) calls on the
movement internationally to celebrate this victory and to intensify BDS campaigns
Campaigners for Palestinian rights are celebrating after the primary Israeli
agricultural produce export company Agrexco, which has been a key target of the
boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement in support of Palestinian rights,
has been ordered into liquidation after being unable to pay its creditors.
Agrexco is a partially state-owned Israeli exporter responsible for the export of a
large proportion of fresh Israeli produce, including 60-70% of the agricultural
produce grown in Israel’s illegal settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT
). In a translation of the court documents on the liquidation process that the BNC obtained, it is clearly stated that
Agrexco acted as an arm of the Israeli state, effectively providing state subsidies to the agricultural sector. The
documents indicate criticism of the government for allowing the company to default on its debts and also warn that
Agrexco is a primary Israeli symbol and that its downfall is likely to have great implications.
“We congratulate and warmly salute our European partners for their dedicated and determined campaign against
Agrexco. This ruling follows the news that Veolia, a French multinational that has lost billions of euros worth of
municipality contracts over its provision of infrastructure to illegal Israeli settlements, is facing a financial meltdown.
Clearly, the BDS movement is coming of age and is raising the cost of corporate complicity with Israeli war crimes.
Strategic BDS campaigns are proving, through every day successes, that BDS is the most effective form of solidarity
needed to challenge Israel’s system of colonialism, occupation and apartheid” said Jamal Juma’, coordinator of Stop
the Wall Campaign and member of BNC secretariat.
Adel Abu Ni’meh, director of the Palestinian Farmers Union, a member organisation of the Palestinian BDS National
Committee, welcomed the news but warned that “Agrexco assets are still being sold. We are following this closely
and call on all international companies to withdraw their offers. Those companies that purchase Agrexco assets and
brand names or seek to replace the company as the primary Israeli agricultural exporter will be similarly targeted by
the BDS movement”.
Agrexco has been targeted with popular boycotts, blockades, demonstrations and direct action throughout Europe.
In France, a broad civil society coalition containing dozens of organisations took legal action against the company
and fiercely opposed the construction of a terminal at Sete that has laid unused since its construction. In Italy and
the UK, campaigners took direct action and pressured supermarkets to drop the Agrexco brand. In July, a new
coalition of organisations from over 13 European countries vowed to “put an end to Agrexco’s presence in Europe”.
The coalition is expected to examine developments and may initiate new campaigns in response to the outcome of the liquidation.
As respected Israeli economist Shir Hever has stated, the European-wide campaign against the company was among
the factors that led to the company’s downfall. “The company has been found to produce misleading reports, and
did not warn its investors of the possible impact of the BDS campaign to boycott the company products. Many
farmers have left the company, opting to work with competing ones which have not yet been at the focus of the BDS
campaign, and as a result Agrexco entered a liquidity crisis. Several companies have considered bidding to buy
Agrexco, but have withdrawn their bids after a brief research, which has no doubt uncovered the company’s
prominence in the BDS campaign, among other things,” he explained.
The campaign against Agrexco was initiated in response to the 2005 call from Palestinian civil society for boycotts,
divestment initiatives and sanctions on Israel and its supporters until the state complies with international law by
ending its occupation and dismantling its apartheid Wall, ensuring equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel and
implementing the right of refugees to return to their homes as stipulated under UN resolution 194.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND INTERVIEWS:
info@bdsmovement.net
In Palestine: +972 (0) 598 921 821
In Europe: +44 (0) 2032 392 170
Palestinians Call for boycott: does the Co-op adhere to its own policy and standards regarding human rights
and trade? You might find our answer in the Events page but please read their statement and check out our actions. For more information, please contact our BDS officer Peter Norton.
A screenshot of the statement as shown on the Co-op website. Click on the image to view it in a different resolution.
BDS Dance Routine.
As part of the Global BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) Day of Action
commemorating Land Day, Adalah-NY: the New York Campaign for the Boycott of
Israel surprised commuters in New York's Grand Central Station with a song and
dance. They performed to the tune of "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey, but with a
little twist to remind people to boycott Israel. You can watch the video on youtube.
Anecdotes from the front-line: what people of Norwich said to us? Hover the mouse over the text to pause.
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Download the Script of the
short ‘speech’ at NPSC and NSW vigil on 28th March
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Global BDS Movement
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Why Boycott Israel: The BIG
campaign Information you need. Please download the file as
PDF format, or as Word document format.
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Please check out Paul Grenville's Why Boycott Israel?
Download Boycott Stickers
size 3x8 (PDF)
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Contact Details Useful for Lobbying
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