The BOYCOTT ISRAELI GOODS (BIG) CAMPAIGN, led by Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods, is being relaunched from September, with letters to supermarket HQ and local branches, and pickets and demonstrations to engage shoppers around the country.
As with the campaign against Apartheid in South Africa we want everyone to commit themselves to boycotting Israeli goods, until Israel complies with international law, with everything this would mean for Palestine. To succeed, this must be a mass movement. 60 years and inaction from the international community and our government have produced deepening injustice for the Palestinians. So ordinary people must act, and do what we can do. More than 180 Palestinian civil society organisations and unions have called for this support.
Please will you join us by:
• Not buying Israeli goods (mostly fruit – including dried fruit, and vegetables and herbs), even if they are labelled ‘West Bank’ (this means they come from illegal Israeli settlements). Look at the label to find if they are from Israel.
• Sending this message to your friends, family and work colleagues, to ask them to join in.• Looking at the BIG website, to tap into information about the many aspects of the boycott campaign, and what others are doing.
• If you live near a PSC branch and aren’t already involved, making contact and joining in their activities – handing out leaflets to shoppers, writing letters, checking supermarket shelves etc. (the week of 20 – 27 September will be a special Week of Action).
• If you are a member of a trade union or religious group, raising the boycott issue at a meeting or through a magazine.
• If you are not already a member,
please join the Palestine Solidarity Campaign at and make a donation.
Thank you – your support is so important.
http://www.bigcampaign.org/
http://www.bds-palestine.net/
http://samotalis.blogspot.com/
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