Movimentos expressam solidariedade a Roger Water após ataques sionistas no Brasil

Movimentos e organizações em solidariedade à Palestina no Brasil emitiram uma nota em defesa de Roger Waters, que tem sido alvo de uma campanha difamatória promovida por entidades sionistas no país e no mundo. De acordo com o comunicado, a acusação de antissemitismo é usada como uma estratégia para silenciar vozes críticas ao apartheid israelense.

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NOTA DE SOLIDARIEDADE AO ARTISTA ROGER WATERS

 

Os movimentos de solidariedade ao povo palestino, reunidos sob o chamado do movimento BDS (Boicote, Desinvestimento e Sanções), expressam sua profunda solidariedade ao renomado artista britânico, Roger Waters, que tem sido alvo de uma campanha difamatória promovida por entidades sionistas no Brasil e no mundo. Essa campanha busca desacreditar Waters e impedir os shows de sua turnê "Farewell", alegando suposta "exaltação" do nazismo.

É importante destacar que, ao longo de mais de 40 anos de carreira, Waters tem sido um crítico ferrenho do fascismo, da opressão dos povos e do autoritarismo. Sua postura de oposição a governos e estados coloniais e opressores sempre foi central e histórica em sua produção cultural e artística. Em sua famosa interpretação como Pink Floyd, Waters incorpora o papel de um general nazista durante um comício fascista, usando a imagem como uma metáfora poderosa para expressar os horrores do nazifascismo e da extrema-direta. Essa representação icônica foi imortalizada no filme "Pink Floyd: The Wall" (1982), onde o ator Bob Geldof desempenha o papel principal.

Além disso, o álbum "The Wall", composto por Waters, é uma obra que foi inspirada pela história pessoal do artista. Seu pai, morto durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial enquanto participava de uma campanha de resistência contra os nazistas, é uma fonte de influência significativa para o tema do álbum. Portanto, acusar Waters de exaltar o nazismo é uma distorção flagrante dos fatos e uma tentativa injusta de difamá-lo.

É fundamental compreender que a acusação de antissemitismo é frequentemente usada como uma estratégia para silenciar vozes críticas ao apartheid israelense. O movimento BDS já discutiu amplamente a instrumentalização do antissemitismo com o intuito de deslegitimar as críticas ao tratamento injusto e discriminatório imposto ao povo palestino. Nesse contexto, é ainda mais inaceitável que o Estado brasileiro ceda às pressões sionistas e permita que a difamação comprometa a liberdade de expressão e a capacidade de artistas como Roger Waters de se manifestarem.

Portanto, reiteramos nossa solidariedade a Roger Waters e a todos aqueles que são vítimas dessas campanhas difamatórias sionistas. Repudiamos veementemente a desonestidade dessas acusações de antissemitismo, que são utilizadas como uma forma de desviar o foco das violações de direitos humanos e das políticas de ocupação e apartheid promovidas pelo Estado de Israel. Estamos comprometidos com a luta pelos direitos humanos fundamentais do povo palestino e pela justiça social, e continuaremos a apoiar artistas e ativistas que se manifestam em defesa desses princípios universais.

Campanha Global

Boicotear HP

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HP plays a key role in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. It provides technology, equipment and services to the Israeli military, including for the checkpoints and ID card system that underpin Israel’s apartheid policies and its movement restrictions for Palestinians. The international Boycott HP campaign has already seen several US churches divest from the company and has attracted support from student governments across the US.
BDS

Why?

HP provides and operates much of the technology infrastructure that Israel uses to maintain its system of apartheid and settler colonialism over the Palestinian people. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the prime contractor of the Basel system, an automated biometric access control system employed within Israel’s checkpoints and apartheid wall. The ID cards distributed as part of this system form the basis of Israel’s systematic discrimination against Palestinians. HP technology helps the Israeli navy enforce the siege on Gaza. In November 2015, HP split into two firms: HP Inc. for consumer hardware (PCs and printers), and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for business and government services. Because the companies share facilitates, branding and supply chains, and collaborate in a wide range of ways, both remain deeply complicit with Israeli apartheid. HP has been described as the “Polaroid of our times”, a reference to huge mobilisations against the use of Polaroid technology used for the South African apartheid regime's passbook system. Polaroid’s 1977 withdrawal from South Africa marked a turning point in the international effort to end apartheid.

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HP company Electronic Data Systems (EDS), now Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is the prime contractor of the Basel system, an automated biometric access control system used in Israel’s checkpoints and apartheid wall.  

These checkpoints fragment and segregate the Occupied Palestinian Territories and its residents through electric fences, watchtowers, sensors, and concrete barriers. The checkpoint system separates Palestinian workers from their jobs, farmers from their land, students from their schools, patients from hospitals, and families from each other.

HP provides the technology infrastructure for Israel’s ID card system. This ID system forms the part of the Israeli apartheid regime’s tiered system of citizenship that gives different rights to different people and leads to institutionalised discrimination in housing, employment, marriage, healthcare, education, and policing.

HP also directly contracts with the Israeli municipalities of Modi’in Ilit and Ariel, two of the largest Jewish-only Israeli settlements in the West Bank, providing them with a range of services.

HP provides broad IT infrastructure and support services for Israeli occupation forces, particularly the Israeli Navy that maintains the siege on Gaza.

Israel’s frequent massacres of Palestinians in Gaza and its siege are deliberately implemented to deny Palestinians their basic rights to life, freedom and self-determination, and to physically segregate them.

Israel’s siege severely limits what goods can go in and out. This denial of supply of essential goods was once described by a senior Israeli official in the following terms: “the idea is put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.”

HP also provides services and equipment to the Israeli Prison Service (IPS), including providing and maintaining its central server system.

 

Israel’s prison system is used to suppress Palestinian political activity, and to stifle opposition to its policies. By helping Israel run its prisons, HP is at the heart of Israel’s use of mass incarceration to undermine Palestinian opposition to apartheid.

According to Human Rights Watch, “the extraction of confessions under duress, and the acceptance into evidence of such confessions…form the backbone of Israel’s military justice system”. Each year, 500-700 Palestinian children are arrested, detained and prosecuted by Israel. The ill-treatment of children imprisoned by Israel is “widespread, systematic and institutionalized” according to UNICEF.

As the coalition Massachusetts Against HP has noted, HP technology underpins oppressive practises across the world:

  • In the US, HP donated technology to the National Security Agency that play a key part of the NSA’s illegal domestic surveillance programs.

  • HP is a major player in the US prison-industrial complex, providing essential infrastructure to private and public prisons.

  • HP is a ‘Top 20’ provider of military and ‘homeland security’ contracts to the US government and military.

  • HP caters to repressive governments around the world, which use HP network surveillance technology to identify and suppress dissidents, as well as censor information.

Impact

The campaign against HP was launched quite recently but has already achieved some important successes.

Milestones

US churches divest from HP

Friends Fiduciary Corporation, the socially responsible investment firm serving over 300 Quaker institutions in the United States, divested from HP in 2012. The US Presbyterian Church voted to divest from HP in 2014. The United Church of Christ (US) voted to divest from HP in 2015.

1.8m
More than 1.8 million people have signed a petition urging HP to end its role in Israeli apartheid

Mass mobilization

More than 1.8 million people have signed a petition calling on HP to end its role in Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. In 2014, 1,000 activists with the Boston for Palestine coalition marched on an HP conference. There is active campaigning on HP across the US, as well as in the UK and Italy. More than a dozen student governments in the US have called on their university to divest from HP.

Take Action

HP relies on its good image and its contracts with public organisations, civil society bodies and private businesses. Effective grassroots campaigning can push HP to end its role in Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. Sign the international pledge to boycott HP. 

Boycott HP & Sign the International Pledge to Boycott HP!

The Palestinian BDS National Committee is calling for a boycott of all HP consumer products including laptops, printers and printer ink. Ask consumers not to buy HP products and work with your local retailers to get them to deshelve HP products.

Also, sign the international pledge to boycott HP. Click here to sign the pledge.


Campaign for Divestment

Banks and pension funds that you are a customer of are likely to be invested in HP. Pressure them to divest.

On Campus

Universities across the world have contracts with HP or are invested in the company. Campaign for your university to cut their ties to Israel’s military industry!

Get Community Organizations & Progressive Organizations to Boycott HP

Many trade unions and other membership bodies have contracts with HP or hold investments in the company.

Organise a Boycott HP Pledge in Your Community

Ask community organisations, trade unions, churches and progressive organisations in your city to sign a pledge not to buy HP products.

Local Governments

Campaign for local governments to commit to not collaborate with or invest in HP.