Today marks a watershed moment as the UN deadline for Israel to end its occupation of Palestine passes. Twelve months on, Israel's military might in occupied Gaza has brought the livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians to unimaginable horrors, and accelerates the ethnic cleansing and annexation. Yet, bar a handful of states, most have failed to start addressing these obligations. Israel is now officially a rogue state and must be treated at least as apartheid South Africa was.
The BDS movement calls on you to immediately escalate our existing call for lawful and targeted sanctions by joining our #DisruptComplicity Global Weekend of Action, 18 - 21 September.
As a matter of life-or-death urgency, Palestinian civil society calls on you to block highways, ports, and facilities of complicit corporations — to end business as usual with a rogue, apartheid state and its livestreamed genocide.
We are calling on you to stage mass protests at ministries and parliaments to demand a military embargo, the suspension of trade and academic ties, and the suspension of Israel from the UN, to organize strikes and work stoppages, where possible and reasonable, to escalate boycott campaigns against BDS priority targets, including disruptions at stores and offices, and to launch and support intersectional campaigns — pushing universities, unions, hospitals, and councils to exclude war-profiteering companies from contracts.
The BDS movement, with its tens of millions of supporters in over 120 countries worldwide, will not stop until we end Israel’s genocide and until Palestinians everywhere can exercise self-determination and enjoy freedom, justice and equality.
*Consult movement lawyers wherever you are before staging any disruptive actions.
Signatories:
- Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU - Gaza)
- Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine
- Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
- Global Palestine Right of Return Coalition
- General Union of Palestinian Workers
- Palestinian Federation of New Unions
- General Union of Palestinian Teachers (GUPT)
- Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE)
- General Union of Palestinian Women
- General Union of Palestinian Writers
- Engineers Association - Jerusalem Center
- Palestinian Bar Association
- General Union of Palestinian Peasants
- Palestinian Union of Postal, IT & Telecommunications Workers
- Union of Professional Associations
- Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO)
- Palestinian National Institute for NGOs
- Federation of Independent Trade Unions
- Veterinarians Syndicate - Jerusalem Center
- Occupied Palestine and Syrian Golan Heights Initiative (OPGAI)
- Union of Palestinian Farmers
- Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (STW)
- Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
- Popular Struggle Coordination Committee (PSCC)
- Civic Coalition for the Defense of Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem
- Coalition for Jerusalem
- Union of Palestinian Communities’ Institutions and Activities in Europe (IGMAH)
- Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)
- Palestine Community in Belgium and Luxembourg
- Palestinian Community of Catalonia
- Union of Palestinian Charitable Organizations
- Women's Campaign to Boycott Israeli Products
- Agricultural Cooperatives Union
- National Committee for Grassroots Resistance
- Southern Electricity Company Employees Union
- Association of Employees of The Financial Sector, Palestine
- Health Services Employees’ Association
- Union of Workers in Kindergartens and Private Schools
- Jawwal Employee Association
- Union of Workers' Unions in Local Authorities - Hebron
- Palestinian Electricians Union - Hebron