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(BDS): We will fight for freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people (France Press)
The Boycott of Israel Movement (BDS) confirmed today, Thursday, that it will fight for freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people, and that it will support all those who fight for a more dignified, just and beautiful world.
“With the support of our many global partners, we will resist these McCarthyites and thugs of the US administration to intimidate human rights defenders into imposing on us Israeli settler colonialism, occupation and the apartheid regime as an inevitable fate. “he added in a statement.
The (BDS) statements come after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday that his country will classify the BDS movement and other movements as “anti-Semitic”, likening the boycott of the Israeli movement to “cancer” and stating that Washington will classify him as “anti-Semitic.” And stop any government support.
In the statement, the boycott movement said: “It is ironic that the Trump administration, with incitement and coverage of Israeli settler colonialism and the apartheid regime, continues to empower and normalize white supremacy and anti-Jews and others in the United States and all over the world, while at the same time trying to discredit the BDS movement. ” BDS) “.
The movement added: “The Trump-Netanyahu alliance, which is extremist in its racism and hostility towards the Palestinian people, deliberately confuses the rejection of the Israeli occupation, colonialism and the apartheid regime against the Palestinians and calls for a boycott on the one hand. and anti-Jewish racism as Jews on the other, and this aims to suppress and silence Palestinian rights and movements in international law. ” .
“Dozens of progressive Jewish organizations, as well as hundreds of prominent Jewish intellectuals around the world, have condemned this false and misleading definition of anti-Semitism,” he added.
He also stated: “By this false definition, anti-Semitism can be accused against human rights organizations that are not part of the boycott movement, but support the ban on colonial goods, for example, and even about 22% of minor American Jews 40-year-olds supporting Total Boycott of Israel, according to a recent poll.
It should be noted that (BDS) is a human rights movement led by the largest Palestinian coalition. The BDS movement primarily and consistently rejects all forms of racism, including racism against Jews.
On the other hand, the Palestinian National Council condemned, in a statement, the visit of the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, to the settlement “Psagot” built on Palestinian lands in the occupied city of Al-Bireh, which is the first that a secretary US State Government visits Israeli settlements in occupied lands.
In a press release issued by its president, Salim Al-Zanoun, on Thursday, the National Council considered that this visit is a dangerous precedent in international relations, and a flagrant US challenge to decisions of international legitimacy, especially the Resolution of the UN Security Council No. 2334, which considers all settlements illegal and invalid. To stop.
The Palestinian National Council called on the UN Security Council, the UN Secretary General and the world’s parliaments to condemn this colonial visit and take the necessary measures against the Trump administration and its foreign minister, who defies all norms , statutes, agreements and international pacts that criminalize settlement activity and all those who support it or participate in its confirmation.
The Palestinian National Council asked the International Criminal Court to adopt the legal requirement in accordance with its Basic Law, which considers the settlement to be a war crime, while the National Council said: “This visit represents a provocation for the whole world. , ignoring international institutions and the Geneva Conventions, and the Trump administration’s insistence on its settlement and occupation partnership. It will not change the legal reality of these colonial settlements, nor will it give them any legitimacy, nor will it prove any reality of occupation that is prohibited and denied by international law. “
The National Council continued: “At a time when the countries of the world and their institutions denounce the continuation of settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories and the construction of colonial units, the latter of which is what the occupation government intends to implement in the occupied city of Jerusalem, the Trump administration continues its association with the occupation in all its violations of international law and decisions of international legitimacy. And aggression against the rights of our Palestinian people, by incorporating their independent state with Jerusalem as your capital, based on those decisions.
In addition, the official spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeina, in a press release on Thursday evening, strongly condemned the visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the “Psagot” settlement on Palestinian land in Jabal Al-Tawil. in the city of Al-Bireh, and the decision of the current US administration to consider products. Israeli settlements are Israeli products.
Abu Rudeineh said: “This decision is a flagrant challenge to all decisions of international legitimacy, and comes as a continuation of the decisions of this administration that insists on active participation in the occupation of Palestinian lands,” emphasizing that “this US step it will not legitimize the Israeli settlements that will sooner or later disappear. “.
He added: “We call on the international community, specifically the UN Security Council, to assume its responsibilities and implement its decisions, especially the latest resolution 2334, which came with the approval of the previous US administration.”
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