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Posted on September 5, 2014September 5, 2014 By rayhanania No Comments on BDS protests against Israeli Apartheid in Houston planned Saturday
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BDS protests against Israeli Apartheid in Houston planned Saturday Sept. 6

The home of The Arab Daily News photographer and journalist Mohammed Asad destroyed in Shujaiyya by Israeli forces.
The home of The Arab Daily News photographer and journalist Mohammed Asad destroyed in Shujaiyya by Israeli forces.

Houstonians Are Invited to Join the Worldwide Movement to Save Palestine: Educational Gathering on Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israeli Apartheid This Saturday

The community will gather to spread awareness about the worldwide Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, which calls for conscious consumerism in the face of the illegal occupation and oppression of Palestinian people by the State of Israel.

In light of recent events in the media about Gaza, Palestine, the Houston BDS Campaign is hosting a gathering to teach and encourage those who would like to help. The gathering will occur at the grassroots level with the goal of spreading awareness of the worldwide Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions Movement against Israeli occupation of Palestine. Attendees will be given tools and information on how they, as consumers, can control their dollar for a better, more just, and peaceful world.

The gathering will be held at Discovery Green at 1500 McKinney Street, Houston, TX 77010 between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Saturday.
The global movement for a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights was initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005, and is coordinated by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), established in 2007. BDS is a strategy that allows people of conscience to play an effective role in the Palestinian struggle for justice.

For decades, Israel has denied Palestinians their fundamental rights of freedom, equality, and self-determination through ethnic cleansing, colonization, racial discrimination, and military occupation. Despite abundant condemnation of Israeli policies by the UN, other international bodies, and preeminent human rights organisations, the world community has failed to hold Israel accountable and enforce compliance with basic principles of law. Israel’s crimes have continued with impunity.

The campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) is shaped by a rights-based approach and highlights the three broad sections of the Palestinian people: the refugees, those under military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Palestinians in Israel. The call urges various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets its obligations under international law by:

Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall;
Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and
Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.
The BDS call was endorsed by over 170 Palestinian political parties, organizations, trade unions and movements. The signatories represent the refugees, Palestinians in the OPT, and Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Boycotts target products and companies (Israeli and international) that profit from the violation of Palestinian rights, as well as Israeli sporting, cultural and academic institutions. Anyone can boycott Israeli goods, simply by making sure that they don’t buy produce made in Israel or by Israeli companies. Campaigners and groups call on consumers not to buy Israeli goods and on businesses not to buy or sell them.

Israeli cultural and academic institutions directly contribute to maintaining, defending or whitewashing the oppression of Palestinians, as Israel deliberately tries to boost its image internationally through academic and cultural collaborations. As part of the boycott, academics, artists and consumers are campaigning against such collaboration and ‘rebranding’. A growing number of artists have refused to exhibit or play in Israel.

Divestment means targeting corporations complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights and ensuring that the likes of university investment portfolios and pension funds are not used to finance such companies. These efforts raise awareness about the reality of Israel’s policies and encourage companies to use their economic influence to pressure Israel to end its systematic denial of Palestinian rights.

Sanctions are an essential part of demonstrating disapproval for a country’s actions. Israel’s membership of various diplomatic and economic forums provides both an unmerited veneer of respectability and material support for its crimes. By calling for sanctions against Israel, campaigners educate society about violations of international law and seek to end the complicity of other nations in these violations.

The BDS National Committee

The efforts to coordinate the BDS campaign, that began to grow rapidly as soon as/once the 2005 Call was made public, culminated in the first Palestinian BDS Conference held in Ramallah in November 2007. Out of this conference emerged the BDS National Committee (BNC) as the Palestinian coordinating body for the BDS campaign worldwide. See the BNC page for more

http://www.bdsmovement.net/bdsintro
For more information on the event, please visit Texans for Palestine on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/texansforpalestine

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