 action & events End Israeli Apartheid: Cairo Declaration
We, international delegates meeting in Cairo during the Gaza Freedom March 2009 in collective response to an initiative from the South African delegation, state: In view of: We reaffirm our commitment to: We therefore reaffirm our commitment to the United Palestinian call of July 2005 for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to compel Israel to comply with international law. To that end, we call for and wish to help initiate a global mass, democratic anti-apartheid movement to work in full consultation with Palestinian civil society to implement the Palestinian call for BDS. Mindful of the many strong similarities between apartheid Israel and the former apartheid regime in South Africa, we propose: 1) An international speaking tour in the first 6 months of 2010 by Palestinian and South African trade unionists and civil society activists, to be joined by trade unionists and activists committed to this programme within the countries toured, to take mass education on BDS directly to the trade union membership and wider public internationally; 2) Participation in the Israeli Apartheid Week in March 2010; 3) A systematic unified approach to the boycott of Israeli products, involving consumers, workers and their unions in the retail, warehousing, and transportation sectors; 4) Developing the Academic, Cultural and Sports boycott; 5) Campaigns to encourage divestment of trade union and other pension funds from companies directly implicated in the Occupation and/or the Israeli military industries; 6) Legal actions targeting the external recruitment of soldiers to serve in the Israeli military, and the prosecution of Israeli government war criminals; coordination of Citizen's Arrest Bureaux to identify, campaign and seek to prosecute Israeli war criminals; support for the Goldstone Report and the implementation of its recommendations; 7) Campaigns against charitable status of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). We appeal to organisations and individuals committed to this declaration to sign it and work with us to make it a reality. Please e-mail us at cairodec@gmail.com Related Links 
more from this section  • Letter sent to the Presbyterian Church to negate the Simon Wiesenthal Center's anti-BDS spam campaign (Thursday, February 25th, 2010)  • Video: Protesting Israeli racist and ethnic cleansing advocate Efraim Eitam @ Pittsburgh Hillel (Thursday, February 4th, 2010) • Letter to Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs about Egypt's actions against convoys to Gaza (Wednesday, January 6th, 2010) • End Israeli Apartheid: Cairo Declaration (Friday, January 1st, 2010) • Urgent Appeal: Support Independent Media (Thursday, October 1st, 2009) • Statement by Richard Goldstone on behalf of the Members of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict before the Human Rights Council (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009) |
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