The Palestinian-led global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights, and particularly its affiliate in France, @Campagnebds, warmly congratulate French author Annie Ernaux for winning the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature 2022.
We join many in celebrating this distinguished recognition of Ernaux’s literary creativity and prowess also because of her principled commitment to fighting oppression globally, including her support for the nonviolent struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality.
Ernaux’s courageous endorsement of impactful measures to hold accountable Israel’s apartheid regime and its complicit cultural institutions stands out.
It is a strong indicator of her ethical consistency in understanding and exercising the responsibility of intellectuals towards ending complicity in oppression.
She embodies the famous principle articulated by the late South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1984: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Alfred Nobel notably said that the Nobel Prize for Literature should reward a work rendering service to humanity and “which demonstrates a powerful ideal.” Annie Ernaux’s literary and social justice work perfectly fit the bill.
Since last Friday, 4 Palestinian children were murdered by apartheid Israel.
⚠️ Adel Daud, 14
⚠️ Mahdi Ladadwa, 17
⚠️ Mahmoud Sous, 17
⚠️ Mahmoud Samoudi, 12
Apartheid Israel has murdered at least 44 Palestinian children, so far this year. #MilitaryEmbargo
While Jewish worshippers celebrate Sukkot, apartheid Israel continues to violently repress the Indigenous Palestinians. Many areas including Nablus in the occupied West Bank and Shufat and Anata in occupied East Jerusalem have been placed under siege.
Israeli settlers, often under the watchful eye of Israel's apartheid forces, carried out violent attacks against Indigenous Palestinians and their property across the occupied West Bank.
4 schools in Masafer Yatta (Jinba, Khalet Athaba’, Khirbet Al-Fakhiet, Khirbet al-Majaz) received demolition orders last week and Umm Qassah School, which serves 50 students from 4 Bedouin villages, is under threat from demolition since last year.
As the school year started, Israeli occupation forces denied teachers & students access to their schools in Jinba and Al-Fakhiet & arrested a teacher confiscating his car that he needs to reach the school.
BREAKING:@Google worker organizing with #NoTechForApartheid resigns over punishment of Palestinian & allied workers who speak up for Palestinian freedom. Workers don't want their labor to enable Israeli violence against Palestinians, but Google is systematically silencing them.🧵
Along with 100s of other Google workers, Ariel Koren spent over a year organizing against @amazon & @Google’s $1B contract with Israeli government & military which helps them surveil Palestinians, expand illegal settlements, and inflict violence on Palestinians under occupation.
Google workers don’t want to be complicit in Israeli apartheid and human rights violations.
As @nytimes reports, one Palestinian worker said, “Project Nimbus makes me feel like I am making a living off my family’s oppression.”
The Israeli government + private companies like NSO Group are exporting the Palestinian experience of mass surveillance under apartheid, threatening civil society globally.
Pegasus spyware is just the latest example of #ApartheidTech piloted on Palestinians and deployed globally. Palestinian civil society is calling for a ban on the trade of mass surveillance technology.
Learn more about how the Israeli military functions as an incubator for private cyber companies like NSO Group, the maker of #PegasusSpyware in this fact sheet:
16 Palestinian children were murdered by apartheid Israel during the brutal 3 day bombardment of besieged Gaza. All of these children previously survived at least 1 war, some of those killed had survived 5 since 2008.
Alaa Abdullah Qaddoum, aged 5
Momen Muhammed ِAhmed al-Nairab, 5
Hazem Muhammed Ali Salem, 9
Ahmed Muhammed al-Nairab, 11
Ahmed Walid Ahmed al-Farram 16
Muhammed Iyad Muhammed Hassouna, 14
Fatma Aaed Abdulfattah Ubaid, 15
Ahmed Yasser Nimr al-Nabahin, 9
The Google & Amazon contract for cloud tech, #ProjectNimbus, helps entrench Israel's regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid & occupation.
It assists the Israeli state & military in carrying out violence & ethnic cleansing against Indigenous Palestinians.
Heeding the Palestinian call to end corporate profiteering from apartheid, activists, workers, and shareholders globally call on Google & Amazon to end Project Nimbus.
Non-assistance to crimes against humanity is an international duty. #NoTechForApartheid