As the global anti-Israel protest campaign Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions (BDS) movement gains momentum, the Israeli regime has launched
a major bid against the movement and its threat of economic sanctions
targeting Israel.
Even Israeli opposition leaders recently joined the regime’s Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in waging diplomatic and economic war
against the BDS, a growing coalition of Palestinian and international
institutions and groups that Tel Aviv claims is “inherently
anti-Semitic” and bent on its termination, the US-based Defense News
reported Friday.
According to the report, even Israeli military firms, led by Elbit
Systems, are bracing for international protests against their products,
trade partners and subsidiaries as Tel Aviv struggles with its push to
undermine the movement and its anti-Israeli boycott campaign.
BDS has already claimed credit for prompting Barclays Bank and
Norway’s pension fund to divest from Elbit stocks as wells as cancelling
a small research satellite project with an Elbit subsidiary in Brazil
and for causing disruptions at three Elbit factories or subsidiary
facilities in Europe.
To mark the anniversary of last summer’s Israeli military onslaught
on the besieged Gaza Strip, the movement in calling for a mass protest
rally on July 6 at UAV Engines, an Elbit subsidiary near the British
city of Birmingham.
Nearly a dozen organizations, the report added, are promoting the
upcoming protest event, which is due to begin in a bid to disrupt
workers about to start their shifts.
“Groups and campaigners from across the UK are going back to Elbit’s
factory to demand that the UK stop arming Israel,” said a group called
Block the Factory in an advertisement on its Facebook page.
In addition to urging a military embargo on the Israeli regime, the
BDS is also targeting Elbit and other contractors for providing
intrusion detection systems as well as other devices used to bolster
Israel’s so-called ‘security barrier’ around the West Bank.
Other firms targeted by the movement for what it describes as their
support for Israel’s “apartheid wall,” include Magal Security Systems,
Israel Aerospace Industries’ Tamam division and Controp Precision
Technologies.
Initiated as a grassroots movement in 2005, BDS aims to use economic
sanctions to end Israel’s occupation of disputed territories captured in
1967, dismantle the separation barrier raised around the West Bank
including East al-Quds (Jerusalem) and promote the right of return for
Palestinian refugees forced out from their native land by Israeli forces
in 1948 as part of efforts to establish Israel.
Selasa, 23 Juni 2015
Terrorist israel wages major bid to ward off BDS boycott campaign
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