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Boycott Zionist Marks and Spencer!

Arthur Dent | 20.02.2004 10:30 | Anti-racism | London

Demonstrations against Briatain's biggest corporate sponsor of Israel continue, despite attacks from Zionist extremists.

Victory to the Intifada!
Our slogan is bold and declares our solidarity with the Palestinian struggle against not only the Israeli state but all Zionists, who are not all Jewish, that give their support to a nation built through terror and massacres. Israel continues the ethnic cleansing required to achieve the Zionist racist goal of an all Jewish state and have recently introduced a law disallowing marriage between Jews and Arabs in order to maintain a clear Jewish majority. This is nothing but a blatant apartheid law which barks back to the old days in South Africa, but we should not be surprised by this parallel as Israel was one of the biggest supporters of the sparatheid regime in South Africa.
Marks and Spencer are continuing to be the staunchest British commercial ally of this racist, apartheid state and while this support continues we will continue to protest against them.

Some would say (including so called peaceful 'liberal Zionists') that Israel is just defending itself against terrorist attack, but this is nonsense - the facts speak for themselves:
Millions of Palestinians have been ethnicaly cleansed from Palestine since 1948.
They have no right of return (which under international law they do have).
Only 15% of historical Palestine remains.
Israel has broken more U.N resolutions than any other country on the face of the planet.
Israel has the 3rd biggest army in the world at it's disposal.
Israel has over 200 nuclear weapons in it's arsenal (the only country in the Middle East with WMD).
Israel recieves over $15m in aid every single day from the U.S (the most reactinary government in the world) - more than any other country.
Israel has just finished building a wall twice as high as the Berlin Wall.
From Oslo to Camp David, Israel has never offered offered the Palestinian people anything beyond a bantustan statelet with no reality authority or independent economy.
Now come on, who are the real terrorists?

The list goes on. What Israel is doing is a crime against humanity and we ask all conscientious individuals to join us in the nationwide demonstrations which have been going against Marks and Sparks every week without fail for over the last 3 years.

The pathetic backward Israeli state is on the point of economic collapse and is becoming increasingly isolated amongst the international community, it has no real resources of its own and relies upon the financial backing of imperialist powers such as the U.S and Britain for its spineless self to function properly. Now is the time more than ever to cut these links and isolate the Zionist state. The best way to do that in Britain is to join the demonstrations against Marks and Spencer.

The counter-demonstrations are continuing against us. They are failing. They are failing because their whole aim is to end the pickets in support of Palestine, and after 6 months, they have still pathetically failed to achieve this. We will never go away. We will never stop campaigning in support of the Palestinian people. The fascists Betar whose leader Vladimir Jabotinsky supported Mussolini and did deals with the Nazis which condemned many Jews to the concentration camps (don't believe me? Check out '51 Documents of Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis' by the Jewish historian Lenni Brenner) will not succeed in intimidating us and our supporters in stopping our campaigning in support of the Palestinians.

Come and join us every Thursday from 6-8pm outside the Oxford Street (Marble Arch end) Marks and Spencer and help show your support too. All welcome - socialists, anarchists, communists, Muslims, Jews, Christians, asylum seekers and all human beings with a conscience. Unlike Zionists we are anti-racists and through a broad and unified movement justice will prevail.

Arthur Dent
- e-mail: victoryintifada@hotmail.com

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Get some BASIC facts right

20.02.2004 13:33

"and have recently introduced a law disallowing marriage between Jews and Arabs"

HUH? There has never been "civil marriage" in Israel and so all marriages between people of different religions are performed outside the country -- the usual term being "going to Cyprus" which apparently is a popular destination for this.

But it's not illegal and the marriages are recognized when the couple comes home. There are plenty of Israeli Jews married to Israeli Muslim (and Christian) Arabs. Perfectly legal, just no way to do that in Israel. If you wish to object to the lack of civil marriage in Israel, fine, I think that's silly too (as do many Israelis) but you SHOULD note that you people haven't had civil marriage all THAT long and that this is a problem in many countries.

You might perhaps be referring to somethign quite different and unrelated whihc WOULD qualify as "recent law" -- Israel is no longer making granting citizenship for spouses of citizens automatic. That one you folks probably do consider strange, but what precisely IS your law and custom? Still sexist? (At one time at least, the WOMAN assumed the citizenship of her husband but not the other way around).

Mike
mail e-mail: stepbystpefarm mtdata.com


hmm

20.02.2004 15:11

As much as i disagree with the Israeli governments occupation of Plaestine, i do not feel any more comfortable supporting the palestinai ruling class

'Victory to the intifada!', amounts to little more than support for the bourgeois thugs gun runners racists and child murderers. Just as ''support for the israeli government does. They are both the same, they both benefit from war. Just as bourgeoisie of many neighbouring middle eastern states benefit from having a scapegoat they can blame all their problems on in the shape of israel, rather than having to face the massive poverty in their own states.

So before we start defining that we're all 'For the intifada' and 'Against Zionism'(which is a slogan i'm personally getting sick of seeing, considering that some groups tend to use it as a cloak for simply being a bunch of anti-semetic bastards) mght be useful to apply a little analysis to events and see who it is taht benefits from this war.

No war but the class war!

Nobody7


racist Britain

20.02.2004 19:05

Hold on a minute Mike. Why do you think that cos we campaign against Israel we are upholding Britain as some great example of civilised values. Yes this is still a country where church and state are linked, civil marriage or not, and yes, this country has incredibly racist immigration laws (has had ever since 1905 when it introduced them to keep out Jews fleeing oppression in eastern Europe. And yes Britain supports Israel (was instrumental in setting it up) and M&S is a British company. So our prime focus is here not there. Our way of supporting the struggle in Palestine is to oppose the support of the govt and businesses of this country for those oppressing that struggle. So hitting us with 'don't be nasty about Israel, Britain isn't very nice either' doesn't really cut much ice.

M


The Intifada is an illegal terrorist campaign

21.02.2004 17:10

How can anyone say such crap as "victory to the Intifada", when the Intifada ia an illegal terrorist campaign? Thousands of Israeli civilians have been killed and maimed since the second Intifada began. What about those victims? How can anyone support the Palestinian Intifada which is a mass campaign of violence and terror aimed at innocent Israeli civilians?

solo


The repression of the Intifada is a legal terrorist campaign

21.02.2004 22:01

How can anyone say such crap as "victory to the Israelis", when they're conducting a legal terrorist campaign? Three times as many Palestinian children have been killed as Israeli civilians since the Intifada began. What about those victims? How can anyone support the actions of Israel, which is a mass campaign of violence and terror aimed at innocent Palestinian civilians?

solo


We all have a part to play in the fight against Zionist racism

13.03.2004 16:29

I am tired of pro-Zionist fanatics pretending that the Palestinians don't have a right to resist the occupation of their country. How is Palestinian resistance any different to the resistance of Europeans to German occupation during WW2. What would you do if the Zionists decided to take over your country, and with the help of massive handouts from America, ethnically cleanse your population? If I was a Palestinian, I would definitely fight those racists. Every Palestinian has a right to return the their property, and to their country - and to be compensated for the years of brutal occupation. Until the Zionist racists accept this, and reconstitute 'israel' as a secular democracy, with all stolen land returned to its rightful owners, they will inevitably suffer bloodshed. It shows the level of despair that these nazis have inflicted on the long suffering Palestinian people, that anyone can be driven to commit such grave acts as suicide bombings. It shows how the hope has been driven from these poor people by the brutal Zionist oppressor. Everyone needs to do their part in boycotting this terrible regime. By boycotting the sponsors of these terrorists (eg. Marks and Spencers), you can do your part to make the world a safer place for us all. In my opinion, the creation of 'israel' is the worst crime committed in living memory. Millions of Jewish people live peacefully in many other countries. The racist hatred of the Zionists is damaging those people too. By committing such attrocities against the Palestinians, they are making innocent jews a target for revenge in other parts of the world.

ivs


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