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London Vigil for GAZA @Israeli Embassy, as Israel massacres Gazans

mswithacause | 11.03.2012 20:22 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

Human Right supporters hold a vigil outside the Israeli Embassy, London on 10th March 2012, as Israel continues to massacre Gazans.

Human Rights supporter, outside Israeli Embassy London, 10th March 2012
Human Rights supporter, outside Israeli Embassy London, 10th March 2012




Waking up to the news on Saturday 10th March 2012, that 15 Gazans have been murdered by Israel under their latest areal and land offensive upon Gaza was deeply striking. The inherent lack of substantive reporting by U.K’s main news channels of the adversity faced by Gazans was notably usual. Whilst those in Gaza via social network sites and Palestinian new channels strived to keep the world informed of events as they occurred. An emergency vigil was organised outside London’s Israeli embassy primarily to ensure that Israel’s latest crimes are not whitewashed by silence manufactured by Israel and our Government.

The UK government is complicit in Israel’s illegal actions, due to its support of Israel, its failure to take reasonable steps to oppose Israel’s gross violations of International law & by the protection it affords Israel. Our Government was a staunch supporter of Apartheid South Africa and one of the last countries globally to withdraw its support for the apartheid South African regime. In a similar manner, the UK now funds & is complicit in Israeli apartheid.

The UK government controls our media & uses this to further its own objectives. As a result, the news of regular Israeli massacres upon Palestinians is not a clarion of truth or a voice often produced.

Israel works to silence dissent which our Government supports by directing its police force, a force the people pay for, to police the people, to further the Governments own objectives.

People took to the streets of London to let others know what is happening in GAZA now, to say this is NOT in our name & ask all to stand against this injustice. A video of this vigil can be viewed here:  http://youtu.be/-8ht3r4DffM

A positive response was received from the public who stood by to listen and stand in solidarity often expressing their agreement and hopelessness as what they could do to help change the situation for Palestinians who are being systematically murdered & ethnically cleansed from their homeland until it seems that both they and their land no longer exist.

As a result of the failure of World leaders to stop Israel’s violations against International Law & crimes, in 2005, The Palestinian civil society called for a global people’s response, they are asking us to boycott, divest from & sanction Israel until:

1. Israel ends its occupation & colonisation of occupied Arab lands & the apartheid wall is dismantled; &
2. Israel recognises the rights of Arab Palestinians citizens of Israel, to full equality; &
3. Israel allows Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland.

For more information please visit www.bdsmovement.net.

At a similar event recently, I thanked a police officer and as I left and I told him he was different, he had a gentle and caring nature to him. The officer told me he has one of the ‘boycott Israel’ cards in his pocket and he will no longer be buying any of the products listed on it.

Assalamu alaikum, peace be upon you.




mswithacause

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thank you for an excellent list

11.03.2012 20:35

I will make a special effort to purchase from these companies as frequently as possible over the next few months.

But first, a quick calculation - Intel has a half-billion-dollar research park in Israel. How many oranges do you have to skip to balance out Intel's half-billion-dollar investment in Israel? How many thousands of years will it take you to do?

excellent list

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Intel

11.03.2012 22:21

I hope that this article was not uploaded using a computer containing an Intel chip...

Concerned of Chapletown

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Ethical business.

11.03.2012 23:01

Thanks for posting.

As a small business owner (Telec coms) I use specialist equipment components for parts which we supply to a GSM sector business and have already divested from buying Israeli components and do so from an ethical perspective.

Its very important in this day and age to source from ethical suppliers and that means avoiding companies who raise tax revenue for dubious governments with human rights abuses.

Initially it was difficult justifying this position and it all came down to the inevitable bottom line of cost but with a little effort it wasn't hard to find a cheaper supplier who could produce to the quality we needed.

No we have a good business model with the added benefit of being able to maintain an ethical position which works across the board. We have certainly found it works for us.

Being able to state an ethical line shows we have what it takes to find the best components in the global marketplace and that we are savvy to the modern political environment too. It also allows our end users to avoid many of the problems associated with modern business by not being undermined by their suppliers.

Anthony Harris (FMC)

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Don't mix issues

11.03.2012 23:15

This isn't the former invasion (yet) of Gaza, but very good military actions against people planning to attack Israel with very low collateral damage. Most were seen preparing missiles to hit Israel. This also is not about apartheid, but about Iran proxies -especially Islamic Jihad- threatening the existence of Israel and need to be cleaned up. Problem is that though most of Hamas is not part of this, they don't have control over the minority of Hamas directly working for Iran and no control over Iran's Islamic Jihad who is responsible for most missiles. As Hamas is weak and divided to have control over the Iran proxies, they risk a new invasion to be cleaned up, before the big thing of an Iran war.

Al

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Here the other side of this story:

12.03.2012 00:01

 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4201484,00.html Slandering the Jewish state - Instead of criticizing ‘Israeli apartheid,’ rights group should focus on Syria, Saudi Arabia

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Difficult to disinvest

12.03.2012 08:14

It's now near impossible to disinvest from Israel when their economy is so tightly integrated with those of Europe and the US. In addition some technology is 100% Israeli (most obviously computer and mobile phone).

Trying to live a life without giving money to Israel is impossible.

Situation highlighter

Ethical Business.

12.03.2012 10:59

Thanks for posting.

As a small business owner (Telec coms) I use specialist equipment components for parts which we supply to a GSM sector business and have already divested from buying Israeli components and do so from an ethical perspective.

Its very important in this day and age to source from ethical suppliers and that means avoiding companies who raise tax revenue for dubious governments with human rights abuses.

Initially it was difficult justifying this position and it all came down to the inevitable bottom line of cost but with a little effort it wasn't hard to find a cheaper supplier who could produce to the quality we needed.

No we have a good business model with the added benefit of being able to maintain an ethical position which works across the board. We have certainly found it works for us.

Being able to state an ethical line shows we have what it takes to find the best components in the global marketplace and that we are savvy to the modern political environment too. It also allows our end users to avoid many of the problems associated with modern business by not being undermined by their suppliers.

Anthony Harris (FMC)

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12.03.2012 23:26

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What Roy Bard Really Means

14.03.2012 00:00

"If anyone is going to be goose-stepping down the High Street, I reckon its gonna be the ones that want to control the discourse and tell people what they may and may not think about."

Ah, but peeps, if that was what you really believed, then you wouldn't have hidden all the posts about the moon landing, now would you? After all, isn't the moon landing exactly the kind of Official Historical Truth Thought Police you claim to be railing against?

No, of course not! The moon landing wasn't about an alleged giant international Jewish conspiracy. If it hadn't taken all the way to the space shuttle before they put an American Jew in space, you'd be all over The Conspiracy!

What you really mean to say is that you're quite comfortable with associating yourself with old-guard four-swastika-and-SS-insignia Nazi propaganda as long as everyone involved sticks to the cover story that they're only attacking the 'zionists' with it -- and not The Jews, whom the lies were designed to attack in the first place.

It's okay in the Book of Bard to use what's long been recognized as anti-Jewish lies, as long as you use those lies in the *right way*.

And the fact that know that you're using pseudo-historical attacks that were created to target The Jews gives you ... no pause whatsoever. To you, an absolute non-issue. What could possibly be relevant about the fact that you're defending stuff that came from people like Ernst Zündel - author of "The Hitler We Loved and Why"?

I tried to talk sense into you, and so did a lot of other people. But you were too cool to be schooled, and look where that road took you -- straight to posting on a neo-Nazi propaganda site.

Congratulations.

Now you can hold that "I'm not an anti-Semite myself, I only quote anti-Semites as necessary to attack Zionists" position - at least inside your own head - as long as nobody questions it more stringently than you question it yourself. Which is to say, as long as nobody questions it at all, because you sure don't.

But now, here you are hanging around -- and, worse, contributing articles to -- what even Mayday would recognize as a Holocaust denial site.

Were you intentionally *trying* to prove me right, peeps? Because if so, you couldn't have done a better job blowing your own rhetorical brains out than to embrace and contribute to the Holocaust denial site "deliberation.info" even as every major Palestinian activist is making it clear that there is no room in the movement for Gilad Atzmon's antisemitism and Holocaust denial.

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