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Stop London stores supporting Israeli massacres!

Campaign for Palestinian Rights | 19.04.2002 15:20

Come down and make your voice heard in Oxford St before the main demo on Saturday! We will be loud and extremely noisy, and aim to ask the stores to stop selling these goods and support human rights.

Meet at: 12.45, outside Marble Arch Station. Sat 20th April. Do not be late!

Stop London stores supporting Israeli massacres!

"It is totally destroyed, it looks like an earthquake has hit it.
. We have expert people here who have been in war zones and earthquakes
and they say they have never seen anything like it... Horrific beyond
belief"

- Terje Roed-Larsen, UN envoy to Palestine

Not content with his brutal repression of Palestinians resisting
Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land, the war-criminal
Ariel Sharon has ordered his troops into Palestinian towns to destroy
homes, with soldiers carrying out the most horrendous crimes from
summary executions, burying people alive, gang-raping women, looting,
and it is now beyond doubt that wholesale massacres have taken place.

Despite international condemnation our government has refused to
take any action, preferring to sit idly by while Israel continues
its slaughter of Palestinians. In the meantime business with Israel
goes on as ever before, with major London stores showing unflinching
support for Israel, making shopping Britons unwitting accessories
for Israel's murderous economy.

Come out and show your solidarity, boycott all stores that sell Israeli
goods. Some examples:

Marks & Spencer - purchasers of well over 50% of all Israel's retail
exports to the UK.

Lord Marcus Sieff, long-time Chairman of M&S, wrote that one of the
objectives of M&S is to aid the economic development of Israel (Management:
The Marks & Spencer Way,Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1990).

Starbucks - "The Palestinians aren't doing their job, they're not
stopping terrorism." CEO Howard Schultz's heartless reaction to
the recent Israeli atrocities.

Selfridges - After initially pulling illegal Israeli goods produced
on the illegal settlements in the Palestinian occupied territories,
the London department store spinelessly returned them after coming
under pressure from the Israeli government. With the full knowledge
that they are directly aiding Israel's military occupation, selling
goods misleadingly labelled and contravening EU customs and excise
laws, Selfridges has stuck by these settlement goods despite massive
protests.

Come down and make your voice heard in Oxford St before the main
demo on Saturday! We will be loud and extremely noisy, and aim to
ask the stores to stop selling these goods and support human rights.

Meet at: 12.45, outside Marble Arch Station. Sat 20th April. Do not
be late!

Followed by a major demo outside the Israeli embassy, 3-5 pm. Nearest
tube Hi St Ken.

Supported by Palestinian rights groups
Powered by Rhythms of Resistance (www.rhythmsofresistance.co.uk)

Campaign for Palestinian Rights

Comments

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This action was advertised a bit too late

19.04.2002 15:45

This action has been advertise far too late to get a significant number of people to attend. Actions like these should be advertised at least two weeks in advance! We need to get thousands of people to take part in actions like this like there were at the excellent march for the Palestinians last week.

There should be a really big action done to draw attention to the plight of the Palestinian people like a mass blockade of Oxford Street outside these stores!

steelgate

What a waste of resources!

19.04.2002 18:23

when people will be needed to stop the nf in bermondsey!
stop isreali fascism or stop home grown fascism? tricky...

nazi-hater

Twatty

19.04.2002 23:08

Thats because this issue has become the stupid focus for single issues. These stupid people forget that British Thugs are acting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why not boycott British goods and companies??
Its all this single-issuism thats so effending. They don't see past their latest protest. Next month it will be something else. None of them has even met a Palestinian or an Israeli.
Yawn, Yawn...I bet none of them have even heard a AFA.

darlin' - you really gotta get out more often

20.04.2002 03:34

darlin' - you really gotta get out more often

We were AFA when it counted - so's where are you going to be when it's going down - on the streets or on your computer - you say you've not met Arab or Israeli people - I dunno where you live - but, sweetheart, you need to get out more.... radical change will happen by us acting in our afinities and in our neighbourhoods-
go for it -

multitude againgst Empire

many worlds are posssible

love and rage

Answer to Twatty
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a message from tel aviv

21.04.2002 15:41

it is all very well to shoot your mouths off from the safety of the uk- you people have no real idea of what it is like living in palestine OR israel right now. many people in israel are fighting the government and their ways and it is very hard to do, as you can come back from a demo and get blown up by a palestinian bomb. it is very easy to blame israelies for not resising enough but the trueth is most people stay at home in fear of getting killed. i fail to see why you all feel so sure of yourselves in boycoting israel while the us and uk are preparing to kill a million more iraqies-the attack is planned for this summer i believe- and don't forget that while you are busy demoing against israelies we will be sitting in shelters trying to guess whether the scud which just destroyed our street is just a bomb or boi chemical...
the hurry which you the world's freedom fighters desplay stincks of anti semitism. and this comes from someone who has demoed with most of you for years, against her own country too, and will continiue to do so, but at least i know what i am on about.

ellyott

Response to ellyott

21.04.2002 16:48

Pam Laurance

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