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ISRAELI BDS
DAY (BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS) AND PALESTINIAN LAND DAY, MARCH 30, 2023.
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PART
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CONTENTS Israeli BDS Day and Palestinian Land Day, March 30, 2023
Abel
Tomlinson 3-12-23
Google
Search 3-29-23
UPJ
Announces FOR Showing of Documentary Boycott
on legislation
blocking boycotts 3-16-23. Other ways to see the film.
Americans
for Peace Now 3-7-23.
Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) 2-23-23.
ARKANSAS: ACLU v. Anti-BDS Bills 7-10-22.
DIVESTMENT: AFSC Weekend Reading 6-4-22.
TEXTS
OMNI’S MONTHLY ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION
Seeking
Student Peace Activists & Upcoming Events
Dear
Peace Friends, 3-12-23
We
really need help promoting our upcoming antiwar peace events on the U of A
campus. Are any of you still University of Arkansas students that
strongly dislike war & strongly care about peace? Or, do you know any
such UA students that would be interested in helping us on campus?
We need help promoting our monthly No More War Peace Protests calling for No
Nuclear War with Russia or China. We must remind the public that Mutually
Assured Destruction means Nobody Wins! We are also beginning to plan for
a roundtable or panel discussion on the Ukraine war & more, and will need
help promoting that.
Our
next monthly No More War Peace Protest is on March 25th at 11 A.M. in front of
the Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville. Here is the
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/732167408357126
For
this next protest, we are adding an additional special focus to include peace
for Palestine, so this month's title is No More War from Palestine to Ukraine,
since that war has recently faced a significant escalation in Huwara, occupied
Palestine.
Major human rights organizations report that over 400 illegal
Israeli settlers carried out a pogrom,
setting fire to a large number of homes, cars, businesses, etc and injured
hundreds of innocent Palestinians. This was done with the support of Israeli
Occupation Forces and the Israeli government.
Alarmingly, none of the settlers face any accountability for
their violence, and even worse, the Finance Minister of the Israeli
government, Bezalel Smotrich, said the entire
city of Huwara should be "erased" or "wiped out."
This is an open admission of the longstanding Israeli policy of ethnic
cleansing, and a powerful incitement for the half million illegal Israeli
settlers to engage in more of this vigilante mob violence.
It is especially important for Americans to rise up and say No
to the war on Palestinians because it is our U.S. government that sponsors the
Israeli occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Our government gives Israel
$3.8 billion per year in foreign military aid, and massive
political support by vetoing over 40 U.N. Security Council
resolutions over the past 40 years that condemned Israeli crimes and violations
of international law.
Thank
You & Hope to See You Soon,
Abel
Tomlinson 3-12-23
Arkansas Nonviolence Alliance, Founder
(479)283-5762
GOOGLE SEARCH, 3-29-23
Land Day BDS
Movement |
https://bdsmovement.net ›
tags › land-day
On March 30,
Palestinians will commemorate Land
day, a day in
1976 when Israeli military forces shot and killed six young Palestinian
citizens of Israel. These ...
Palestinians in Gaza call for right of return on
Land Day
Al
Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com ›
news › palestinians-in-gaz...
Mar
30, 2022 — Palestinians commemorate Land Day on an
annual basis, dating back to March 30, 1976, when six unarmed Palestinians were killed
by Israeli ...
Land Day
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org ›
wiki › Land_Day
Land
Day March 30, is a day of
commemoration for Arab citizens of Israel and Palestinians of the events of
that date in 1976 in Israel. Land
Day.
Land Day
+972 Magazine https://www.972mag.com ›
topic › land-day
Independent
commentary and news from Israel & Palestine.
BDS Global Day of Action to mark Land Day on
March 30
The
Electronic Intifada https://electronicintifada.net › blogs ›
michael-deas
Campaigners
for Palestinian rights are again gearing up for the BDS Global Day of
Action, an annual wave of protests, creative actions and media outreach
in ...
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We are too late for this showing, but here are
other ways to see it.
Boycott
Just Vision https://justvision.org ›
boycott
A
legal thriller with “accidental plaintiffs” at the center of the story, Boycott is a
bracing look at the far-reaching implications of anti-boycott legislation ...
Synopsis ·
Our Events ·
Anti-boycott Legislation Tracker · Protagonists
Boycott (2021)
IMDb https://www.imdb.com ›
title
Boycott (2021). Documentary.
When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona and a speech
therapist in Texas are told they must choose between ..
Boycott | Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Human
Rights Watch https://ff.hrw.org › film › boycott
In Boycott,
award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha pulls back the curtain on a movement of
conservative legislators and lobbyists in the United States who are ...
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Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP)
Washington,
D.C. - February 23, 2023
Media Contact: media@cmep.org 202-543-1222
Churches for Middle East Peace
(CMEP) Condemns Increasing Violence and Calls on the United States and
Israel to Address Core Issues of Settlements and State Violence
Churches for Middle East Peace
(CMEP) condemns the alarming increase in violence against Palestinians in the
West Bank by Israeli authorities and settlers. Every day brings news of new
violations, killings, and provocations. Core issues–Israeli settlement
activities, lack of accountability for settler and state violence, and
provocations at Al-Aqsa Mosque–must be solved for cycles of violence to end.
CMEP calls on the United States to do everything in its power to intervene to
stop violence from both sides.
On Sunday, February 12, the
Israeli cabinet moved to legitimize nine illegal Israeli outposts in the West
Bank. These outposts are considered illegal by the international community,
international law, and by Israel itself. Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich, a
settler himself, also announced on the same day that plans were moving forward
to build 10,000 new residential units in existing settlements, the largest
single expansion in years.
In the past, these kinds of
settlement developments have occasionally been challenged by the Supreme Court
of Israel, but the new government is advancing laws that would severely curtail
needed judicial oversight of Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian
territories (oPt). The massive protests taking place in Israel right now are in
opposition to this move to reduce judicial oversight. These cabinet actions are
a natural outcome of the radical
position the new government expressed late last year to “promote and develop the settlement of all parts of the Land of
Israel — in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan and Judea and Samaria.” This settlement action demonstrates that the new Israeli
government is not merely radical in its rhetoric but also in its policies on
core issues that fuel violence.
Wednesday, February 22, brought
headlines of further violence. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) made an incursion into Nablus, killing 11 people and
wounding more than 100 others. Settler groups entered and openly prayed at the
Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Settlers cut down olive trees owned by Palestinian
farmers south of Nablus.
CMEP’s executive director Rev.
Dr. Mae Elise Cannon, said, “I am horrified by the latest flood of violence,
the killings, the raids, the provocations. Tensions are overflowing. Families
are grieving. People are scared and angry. When will the current US
administration wake up and truly engage? We must act to end violence on both sides
by addressing the core issues that fuel the conflict.”
Israel agreed to reduce its raids in West Bank cities last weekend in a negotiation to prevent a UN binding
resolution calling for a halt to settlement activities. The raid into Nablus on
Wednesday violates the spirit of that agreement.
On February 14, the U.S. State
Department joined with the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Italy, and
the U.K. to express they “strongly oppose” Israel’s settlement expansions, stating that they
“only serve to exacerbate tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.”
CMEP calls on the United States
to follow up on their statement with action. Words are not enough. The United
States government and the Biden Administration should take a clear and explicit
position that settlements are inconsistent with international law and that the
United States will distinguish between settlements and Israel proper in its
dealings with Israel. Furthermore, Congress must ensure that no U.S. aid to
Israel is used to annex Palestinian land, forcibly remove Palestinians from
their land, or demolish Palestinian structures. Only when these and other core
issues are addressed can the cycle of violence end.
“As anti-BDS bills become the norm, ACLU takes free
speech fight to the Supreme Court.”
Editor.
Mronline.org (7-10-22).
In June, a federal appeals court upheld an
Arkansas law barring state contractors from boycotting Israel, sparking
concerns over First Amendment rights in the United States.
Originally
published: MintPress News on July 7, 2022 by Jessica Buxbaum (more by MintPress News) | (Posted Jul
09, 2022)
Empire, Ideology, Inequality, StrategyAmericas, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, United StatesNewswireAnti-BDS Law, Arkansas, Arkansas Times, Boycott, Divest, First Amendment rights,
Sanction, Supreme Court
In June, a
federal appeals court upheld an Arkansas law barring state contractors from
boycotting Israel, sparking concerns over First Amendment rights in the United
States.
The Eighth
Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision made last year by a panel of three
judges who found that mandating a pledge to not boycott Israel is
unconstitutional.
However,
the recent court ruling determined boycotts are not expressive conduct and
instead related to commercial activity and therefore the state can regulate
such actions.
“It only
prohibits economic decisions that discriminate against Israel,” Judge Jonathan
Kobes, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, wrote in the court’s
opinion.
Because
those commercial decisions are invisible to observers unless explained, they
are not inherently expressive and do not implicate the First Amendment.
“By declaring Arkansas’
Anti-BDS Law to be constitutional, the court has tacitly endorsed a
Palestine-exception to the First Amendment,” Council on American Islamic
Relations (CAIR) National Litigation Director, Lena Masri, said in a statement.
In 2018, The
Arkansas Times sued the state over its Israel boycott law after
refusing to sign the pledge. Originally, Arkansas Times publisher
Alan Leveritt lost in District Court but won when he appealed to the Eighth
Circuit Court. The state then appealed to the full appeals court and was
granted a rehearing.
The American Civil
Liberties Union, which represented The Arkansas Times, confirmed it
plans to appeal to the Supreme Court.
MORE
DIVESTMENT
AFSC Weekend Reading (6-4-22).
This week we were reminded of the power of people coming together
to stand up for human rights. In 2020, AFSC and partners started a campaign
calling on General Mills to stop making
Pillsbury products on stolen Palestinian land. Just days ago, the company
announced it had divested its Israeli business altogether, selling its stake in
the subsidiary that manufactures Pillsbury products in an illegal
settlement. Read more.