BDS movement calls for a Global Day of Action on November 29th

 

Millions of you have taken to the streets for the largest protests the world has seen in the last 20 years! We are grateful to each one of you who, through your voices and creative actions, have built up unprecedented grassroots power to end Israel’s genocidal war against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.   Yet, Western governments are continuing to arm, fund and provide political cover for Israel’s genocide.Theirs is an alliance of the world’s racist, colonial and hegemonic regimes that is a partner in Israel’s mass murder and starvation of Palestinians.   Ending all state, corporate and institutional complicity with Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime is more urgent than ever. Palestinian lives and livelihoods literally depend on it. To this end, and as time has shown, BDS is the most effective form of solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle.

Under the banner, Unite now to stop #GazaGenocide and start dismantling Israeli apartheid!, the Palestinian-led global BDS movement calls for a Global Day of Action on November 29th, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, to end business-as-usual with apartheid Israel. We call for escalating worldwide peaceful mobilizations and expressions of meaningful solidarity to stop the genocide including:   Whenever feasible, organizing peaceful disruptions, sit-ins, occupations, etc.   Disrupting the transport of weapons, or weapon parts, to Israel, including in transit states.   Pressuring parliaments and governments to cancel existing military-security contracts and agreements with Israel.   Intensifying #BDS campaigns and campaigns to cut all ties to apartheid Israel and its complicit academic and cultural institutions as well as sports teams.   Mobilizing your community, trade union, association, church, social network, student government/union, city council, cultural center, etc. to declare itself an Apartheid Free Zone (AFZ) on November 29th.   Pressuring your elected officials to demand real pressure on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to urgently prosecute Netanyahu and all other Israeli officials responsible for genocide, apartheid, and war crimes. The ICC prosecutor should be replaced if he continues to drag his feet and ignore his legal obligations to stop the genocide.