Targeting Israeli Apartheid: a BDS handbook - Corporate Watch ...

“We, representatives of Palestinian civil society, call upon international civil societyorganizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts andimplement divestment initiatives against Israel, similar to those applied to South Africa inthe apartheid era. We appeal to you to pressure your respective states to impose embargoesand sanctions against Israel. We also invite conscientious Israelis to support this Call, forthe sake of justice and genuine peace.”Palestinian Civil Society Call for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, 2005“There are concrete steps that people can take, learning from the lessons of the first Intifadaand the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign to dismantle the South AfricanApartheid regime; strategies of popular resistance, strikes, occupations, direct actions. Fromthe streets into the offices, factories and headquarters is where we need to take this fight, tothe heart of decision-makers that are supposedly making decisions on our behalf and thecompanies making a killing out of the occupation. The third intifada needs to be a globalintifada.”Ewa Jasiewicz, from the besieged Gaza Strip, January 2009"Israel is committing a grave crime in Gaza. 350 children have been reported dead. It'sabsolutely disgusting that weapons are being made in our cities in our country that are beingused to kill innocent women and children and are being used indiscriminately; it's about timethat something was done about it. If the law and the police can't do anything about it, it'sabout time somebody else did."Tom Woodhead, one of the 'EDO Decomissioners', January 2009. Hours after giving thisinterview Tom broke into EDO MBM, an arms manufacturer supplying weapons to Israel,and destroyed the production line.“Clearly, the BDS movement is coming of age and is raising the cost of corporate complicitywith Israeli war crimes. Strategic BDS campaigns are proving, through every day successes,that BDS is the most effective form of solidarity needed to challenge Israel’s system ofcolonialism, occupation and apartheid”Jamal Juma, commenting on the court order to liquidate key BDS target, Carmel Agrexco.Jamal is coordinator of the Stop the Wall Campaign and member of the Palestinian BoycottDivestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) secretariat.