Ongoing Israeli
instigated violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (along with
intermittent Gaza bombings and cross-border incursions) is part of its
longstanding ethnic cleansing policy. The objective: maximum Jews and
minimum Arabs, remaining ones confined to isolated ghettoized bantustans
on worthless scrubland.
Nothing this extreme would be happening without US approval.
What began in late
July with settlers killing three Dawabsha family members by immolation,
followed by violent Israeli rampaging through the Al-Aqsa Mosque shifted
to intensified state terror throughout the West Bank and East
Jerusalem, turning the entire territory into a battleground while
Mahmoud Abbas and other PA officials do nothing to help defenseless
Palestinians they’re sworn to serve and protect. Their inaction reflects
complicity, collaboration with Israeli viciousness.
Where is world outrage? Why are Western and most regional leaders virtually silent in the face of ongoing Israeli atrocities?
They include
murdering young children threatening no one, breaking into Palestinian
homes pre-dawn, terrorizing families, traumatizing children, damaging
property, arresting innocent people, killing and brutalizing at will – a
devastating reign of terror on an entire population.
Israel is run by
Arab-hating fascists, Zionist extremists and religious fundamentalist
zealots – a police state rejecting rule of law principles, enforcing
apartheid worse than South Africa’s version, allowed to get away with it
because Washington approves.
One rogue state
supports another, partnering in each other’s high crimes. Israel is no
democracy. It’s a machine for the manufacture of human rights abuses,
Joel Kovel explains. Its Zionist ideology is a cancer harming Jews and
non-Jews alike – a scourge on humanity.
More than ever,
global BDS activism is needed. The most effective way to confront
Israeli ruthlessness is economic – hitting it in the pocketbook where it
hurts most, convincing growing numbers of people worldwide to lend
support.
Israel considers
BDS a strategic threat. It’s a significant force to be reckoned with.
Each time a company or institution divests, Israel’s economy takes
another body blow.
Palestinians are
buying fewer Israeli products, choosing ones from other countries more
often. The whole world needs to follow their example. Shun everything
made in Israel, especially illegal settlement products.
The Palestinian BDS
National Committee (BNC) coordinates Palestinian boycott campaigns, its
General Coordinator Mahmoud Nawajaa, saying:
Declining
Palestinian purchases of Israeli products “indicate that the grassroots
boycott campaigns against Israel that have taken off across Palestine in
recent years are already costing the Israeli economy hundreds of
millions of dollars and could become an even more important factor in
the near future.”
“This adds to the growing economic and political isolation that Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid is starting to face internationally as a result of the fast-growing impact of the BDS movement.”
In 2014, direct
foreign investment in Israel declined by 46%, BDS effectiveness a
contributing factor. In September, French company Viola divested
entirely from Israel, costing its economy billions of dollars.
Nawajaa cites the urgency of BDS activism, needed more than ever, saying:
“The recent upsurge in popular resistance by Palestinians is a response to the way in which this far-right Israeli government has done everything possible to intensify the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the desecration of our holy sites, the collective punishment of our people in Gaza, the construction of colonial settlements, and the adoption of more apartheid laws.”“As a typical settler-colonial regime, Israel is viciously attacking and repressing popular Palestinian resistance with military violence, including indiscriminate use of force against Palestinian civilians, which constitutes war crimes.”“Israel is only able to attack Palestinians with impunity and maintain its decades-old regime of settler colonialism and apartheid because of direct complicity of governments and their failure to ensure that Israel complies with international law.”“Governments should meet their legal obligations to hold Israel accountable for its indiscriminate use of force against Palestinians, including by imposing an immediate two-way military embargo on Israel and cutting ties with Israeli academic institutions that are deeply involved in military research.”“Grassroots BDS pressure on Israel will continue to grow rapidly and become even more widely supported both in Palestine and internationally.”
It bears repeating. The best way to combat Israeli viciousness is economic, making its economy scream.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.” http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
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