Boycott Section

In July 2004, the International Court of Justice confirmed what had already been obvious to much of the world: the Apartheid Wall being built by Israel is in complete violation of international law.

Don’t let the ICJ decision follow the path of the countless UN Resolutions that have gone unattended, and the hundreds of international reports that have condemned the racist Israeli Apartheid Wall and Occupation without stopping it!

• Launch, promote & coordinate consumer boycotts on goods “Made by Israeli Apartheid”!
  
  
• Mobilize on the local level to involve institutions, community networks, activists & public personalities in the campaign    to spread the academic, cultural and sports boycott on Israeli Apartheid!
  
  
• Insist that companies and institutions divest/disinvest from Israeli Apartheid!
  
  
• Pressure your governments & lobby your representatives to impose sanctions and enforce an arms embargo on Israeli Apartheid as a tool to implement the ICJ decision!

• Provide Research and Information
  An important part of successful boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns is updated and precise information accessible to everyone. Companies and governments are generally not interested in publicizing their links to criminal states. It is the task of activists and movements to gather the necessary information for campaigns against Israeli Apartheid and Occupation, and to share information with other activists and groups to ensure successful campaigns.
  
  This section of our website is designed to support these efforts. You will find links to selected boycott / divestment campaigns and information sites below. If you are running a campaign or a website, or if you have done or planning to do your own research about these issues, please contact us at mobilize@stopthewall.org. Coordination of the local efforts and information sharing is crucial to ensure the strengthening and success of the movement to isolate Israeli apartheid!

• Boycott Israeli Goods
  Don’t buy “Made by Israeli Apartheid”! Make it a point not to buy Israeli goods, and ask stores to stop supporting Israeli Occupation and Apartheid and to change the brand of their merchandise. Ask your friends and colleagues to join the boycott of Israeli Occupation and Apartheid. It depends on each of us to make the boycott grow and become more effective – it doesn’t cost time or money, but it can be an important step towards the fall of the Apartheid Wall and the end of Israeli Apartheid.
  
  The Campaign has made activist resources available that will help you to raise awareness. To know more about the products and brands to boycott see the list of websites below.

• PrepareInformation Tables and Stalls
  Awareness-raising in your area is important. Inform the public about the suffering and struggle of the Palestinian people, the reality of Israeli Occupation and Apartheid, and the construction of the Wall, and unmask Israel’s real face in your streets.
  
  Information Stalls can be put up everywhere – at universities, in market places, and at all kinds of gatherings. It is important to remember that the struggle against racism, colonialism, and occupation is not just an issue for “specialists.” For info and activist material for your info stall see our “activist resources”.

• Organize Picket Lines
  Picket lines and leafleting in front of stores and shopping malls that are known for selling Israeli goods is a simple but effective way of promoting the boycott. You are able to inform the public, raise awareness and, at the same time, pressure the management of the stores to stop selling Israeli goods.

• Target Your Media
  In most of the mainstream media it is not easy to obtain space to get your message across. Work with independent and local media, and approach publications of organizations and those intended for specific target groups that might be more sensitive to the issue. Write letters to the editor and opinion-editorial articles.

• Organize Divestment Campaigns
  You can organize divestment campaigns almost everywhere. Support for Israeli Occupation and Apartheid through ties with Israel or companies that are overtly supporting Zionism is still world wide. All that is necessary is some information gathering about the investments and the trade of the universities, institutions, and companies in your area (for a start, see the list of links below).
  
  Raise awareness about Israeli Apartheid and the complicity of these universities, institutions, and companies in supporting Israeli crimes and the interests of Israeli Apartheid world wide. Create networks of supporters of the call for divestment in order to mount pressure until the targeted institutions or companies divest. There are already many divestment campaigns against various multinationals in action, so you might want to coordinate with them if you have a branch in your area.

• Campaign for Academic, Cultural, and Sports Boycotts
  Make sure that institutions, universities, and other organisations are not legitimising Israeli Apartheid through “business as usual.” Pressure them to not allow invitations and cooperation with Israeli academics, cultural institutions, and sports clubs as long as Israeli Occupation and Apartheid persist.

• Pressure for Sanctions
  Sanctions are originally a governmental and intergovernmental means to enforce international law and resolutions. However, sanctions have been more often used by developed countries to oppress other countries and their people; they have seldom been implemented as a means to stop the oppression of a people (as they were, for example, against Apartheid South Africa).
  Ask your representatives and governments to implement sanctions in cases where they do not kill but stop the killing, where they are not part of colonial warfare but a way to stop colonial occupation.
  
  Apartheid Israel cannot continue to neglect international law and resolutions: the decision of the International Court of Justice—a decision against the Apartheid Wall, against Israeli Occupation, and against colonial settlement policies—needs to be implemented immediately!

The links below are from a selected list of initiatives that have been in contact with the Campaign. We are aware that many other groups and initiatives all over the world are sharing the call to Isolate Israel and would like to encourage you to get in contact with us. If you have your own initiative, website or research, please contact us at: mobilize@stopthewall.org.


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