“Palestine is one of the most reported places in the world….
But there still is a bunch of misinformation….
What much of the media fails to explain….
Since 1948 nearly 75 percent of the indigenous population….
have been forcibly driven off their land….
Denied the Right of Return
All under brutal Occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The remaining 25 percent of Palestinians live as second-class citizens in Israel
While our government provides 8.5 million dollars in military aid to Israel each day
While our tax dollars are used to purchase weapons and sustain an illegal Occupation
Our government stands by a country that has and continues to violate International Law,
“[Altogether] “We, we, we, we, The Ohio State Buckeyes, stand with the Palesinian people and support their struggle for freedom and equal rights.
If I boycott Israeli goods…,
It’s because it’s because I oppose racism, it’s because I oppose brutality toward the indigenous people.
There’s only one line of division:
It’s not a line of division between Muslims and Jews,
It’s not a line of division between Palestinians and Israelis….
It is a line of division…. between those who stand for the equality of all
And those who stand for the supremacy of some,
It’s a line of division between what is right and what is wrong
Boycott Apartheid, boycott Israel….”
Grace in caring, gentleness in choice, fortitude in action: What principle.
Wish I’d written that. A beautiful statement of the case.
Beautiful indeed.
Fantastic- thanks for sharing Susie, and congratulations to the Ohio State Buckeyes on a wonderful video!
Text of Wayne State University’s Student Council Divestment Resolution:
Approved on April 17, 2003,
Detroit, Michigan.
This Resolution is on the Web at:
http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-news-0376.html
“WHEREAS, the Student Council of Wayne State University has grave misgivings about financing violent ethnic cleansing, racially directed against millions of occupied Palestinian civilians, who are both innocent and helpless,
“WHEREAS, those millions of Palestinians suffer long-term malnutrition, are surrounded by Israeli army bulldozers, tanks, soldiers, and by jet bombers, all of which have killed thousands of occupied Palestinians,
“WHEREAS, on Sunday, March 16, 2003, an American college student, Rachel Corrie, was killed in plain sight, while dressed in bright orange, while waving, and while shouting at an Israeli Army bulldozer through a megaphone, by that same Israeli Army bulldozer, in the Occupied Gaza Strip,
“WHEREAS, that Israeli Army bulldozer ran her over twice,
“WHEREAS, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has urged us all to divest from Israel due to its violent and humiliating apartheid policies,
“WHEREAS, Israel was a long-time, close ally of White Apartheid South Africa,
“WHEREAS, the Wayne State University Board of Governors (“the Board”) has knowledge of University investments, including what governments our University is paying taxes to by means of investment, and has the authority to seek such information from its fund managers,
“THEREFORE IT IS RESOLVED, that we ask the Board to immediately divest (dis-invest) our university from Israel,
“THEREFORE IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, that we ask the Board for a report this semester, on its progress in divesting the University from its investments in Israel, including divestment from all companies doing business in Israel, and divestment from all stocks and pension funds which include those companies.”
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Poignant. Effective.