Kenne Mwikya talks about Israel's ties with "conservative and anti-freedom elements" of Kenya.
People's solidarity lies with the Palestinian people, as both Africans and Palestinians have been under some form colonial oppression through history.
.@Nawajaa : Divestment and boycott campaigns are working. We hope sanctions against Israel will start from Africa, which can then have a rolling effect.
We know the BDS movement is working because Israel is trying to delegitimize and sabotage it but is failing at it.
.@Shokispeare "The GSR called for a resolution to recognize Israel's regime as apartheid and target sanctions including a military embargo
..it is our obligation to guarantee that our governments meet these demands across the African continent"
"We are building the network across the Global South to build coordinated, synchronized & effective action
We want to have all 54 African countries represented at a rally like this next year!" .@Shokispeare
Rev. Kolade "The Palestine situation has called our Christianity into question.
From Kairos Nigeria we are questioning pilgrimage that does not respect human rights, the pilgrimage that is one sided and supports Israeli occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people."
Maureen Kasuku, Kenya "We are bringing feminists across the continent on board with the BDS campaigning.
I hope that the Global South campaign and all African countries can form a formidable BDS movement"
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Israel’s Genocide against Palestinians Accelerating its Economic Collapse.
#ShutDownNation
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A leading Israeli paper revealed on Wednesday that 46,000 Israeli businesses have shut down since the start of Israel’s #GazaGenocide against 2.3m Palestinians.
This is the strongest indicator to date of the accelerating and “very serious” damage to the Israeli economy. #ShutDownNation
As things are going, Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid may not live to “celebrate its centennial,” according to a recent report by Eugene Kandel, former head of Israel’s National Economic Council at the PM's Office, and Ron Tzur, who was a senior government official.
They paint “a picture of total failure in the systems, management and operations of the [Israeli] administration … a collapse.”
Today marks 19 years since the historic call from the largest Palestinian coalition to boycott, divest from, and impose sanctions on Israel’s regime of military occupation, settler-colonialism, apartheid, and now genocide.
For our 19th anniversary we have highlighted a sample of significant BDS impacts since the beginning of Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip.
Over the last 19 years, the BDS movement has built a massive network worldwide, supported by trade unions, farmers’ coalitions, as well as racial, social, gender and climate justice movements, together representing tens of millions.
It has had a large impact on isolating apartheid Israel, including by making large multinationals, like G4S, Veolia, Orange, HP, PUMA, and others totally or partially end their complicity in its crimes against Indigenous Palestinians.
Answering some of the most frequently asked questions about the #BDS movement’s boycott targets.
The BDS movement carefully evaluates and prioritises targeted companies based on the level of their complicity in Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, among other targeting criteria.
If new information comes to light indicating that a company is significantly contributing to Israel’s genocide or its regime of settler-colonial apartheid, we will consider prioritizing it.
Imposing US sanctions on Israel, once taboo, is finally mainstreaming. Calls for trade sanctions, canceling arms shipments, or conditioning military sales are now rising even among dozens of Congress members & former senior White House officials.
For 6 months, the US has been arming, funding and diplomatically shielding Israel’s #GazaGenocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in occupied & besieged Gaza. Polls show that at least 52% of Americans now support stopping all arms shipments to Israel.
Longtime Democratic leader and AIPAC-beneficiary Nancy Pelosi is among the 56+ members of Congress urging Biden to suspend arms transfers to Israel over the “harm to innocent [Palestinian] civilians in Gaza” and the deadly attacks on humanitarian aid workers.
US VP Kamala Harris said: “People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane & our common humanity compels us to act.” Affirming starving Palestinians in Gaza were met with Israeli gunfire, Harris said Israel must allow more aid in, “no excuses.”
What is the “excuse” then for the US government partnering in Israel’s #GazaGenocide, excluding itself from any “common humanity.”
It arms, funds and defends Israel’s genocide, preventing a ceasefire and any form of accountability to international law.
All 2.3M Palestinians in occupied Gaza are hungry & over half a million are “starving,” according to UN experts. By defunding UNRWA, the colonial West led by the US is directly starving Palestinians, according to @LemkinInstitute for Genocide Prevention.
For the first time in its history, Israel’s credit rating has been downgraded by Moody’s. Its rating outlook was also changed to “negative,” reflecting its growing debt, budget deficit, and structural economic woes. archive.fo/DXEXX
This is a major blow to Israel's economy as it continues its genocidal war on the 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. More than ever, Israel is looking like a #ShutDownNation.
Moody’s stated on Friday that Israel’s war on Gaza and its aftermath will “materially raise political risk for Israel as well as weaken its executive and legislative institutions and its fiscal strength, for the foreseeable future.”