Wednesday, 29 May
6:00 pm
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Ipsilantou 10
Athens, Greece
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/309200413339988/

Join us on Wednesday, 29 May to protest outside the German embassy in Athens-Greece!
On 19 May, #Germany‘s parliament declared #BDS (the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement against Israel) to be “anti-Semitic.” In reality, this is a racist attack on the Palestinian people. The campaign against BDS has been pushed by the extreme right from “Israel” to Germany. Just as Germany is enforcing “fortress Europe” policies against #refugees and impoverishing the people of Greece with economic domination, the German state is standing together with occupation, oppression, apartheid and colonialism in Palestine. We stand with the Palestinian people and condemn this German imperialist attack on Palestinian rights! Boycott Israel!

Η μετάφραση του αγγλικού καλέσματος είναι αυτή:

Όλοι και όλες την Τετάρτη, 29 Μαΐου, στη διαμαρτυρία μπροστά στην πρεσβεία της Γερμανίας στην Αθήνα!
Στις 19 Μαΐου, το κοινοβούλιο της #Γερμανίας κήρυξε το #BDS (κίνημα Μποϊκοτάζ, Απόσυρσης Επενδύσεων και Κυρώσεων κατά του Ισραήλ) αντισημιτικό. Στην πραγματικότητα, αυτό αποτελεί μια ρατσιστική επίθεση στο λαό των Παλαιστινίων. Η άκρα δεξιά μεταφέρει την εκστρατεία κατά του BDS από το “Ισραήλ” στη Γερμανία. Ακριβώς όπως η Γερμανία ενισχύει πολιτικές “Ευρώπης-Φρούριο” κατά των #προσφύγων και οικονομικής κυριαρχίας στο λαό της Ελλάδας, το γερμανικό κράτος συντάσσεται με το καθεστώς κατοχής, καταπίεσης, απαρτχάιντ και αποικιοκρατίας στην Παλαιστίνη. Στεκόμαστε πλάι στον παλαιστινιακό λαό και καταδικάζουμε την γερμανική ιμπεριαλιστική επίθεση στα δικαιώματα των Παλαιστινίων! Μποϊκοτάζ στο Ισραήλ!

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Το ελληνικό κείμενο που έχετε βάλει έχει πολλά λάθη και κάποια σημεία του δεν είναι κατανοητά, για αυτό δεν είναι εύκολο να το διορθώσουμε.

باسم اللاجئين الفلسطينيين والمؤسسات الفلسطينية الفاعلة في اليونان ومعنا القوى اليسارية والتقدمية اليونانية للمشاركة يوم الأربعاء القادم للاحتجاج امام السفارة الألمانية في اثينا للتنديد بقرار البرلمان الألماني الذي يجرم حركة المقاطعة وسحب الاستثمارات والعقوبات ضد إسرائيل وبعتبرها حركة معادية “للسامية”. في الواقع، هذا القرار هو ليس الا هجوم عنصري من قبل الحكومة الالمانية على الشعب الفلسطيني وحقه في المقاومة من اجل التحرر من الاستعمار الصهيوني والغربي.

ان الحملة ضد حركة المقاطعة BDS تم دفعها من قبل اليمين المتطرف الصهيوني إلى ألمانيا. تماماً كما تقوم ألمانيا بتطبيق سياسات عنصرية ضد “اللاجئين” وتمعن في إفقار الشعب اليونان عبر هيمتنها على الاقتصاد الوطني، تقف الدولة الألمانية اليوم كما دائما مع الاحتلال والقمع والفصل العنصري والاستعمار في فلسطين. لذلك ان من واجبنا ان نقف إلى جانب الشعب الفلسطيني وندين هذا الهجوم الإمبريالي الألماني على حقوق الشعب الفلسطيني على ارض فلسطين كاملة من البحر الى النهر.

Friday, 31 May
3:00 pm
Israeli Embassy
50 O’Connor St
Ottawa, Canada
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/579256239261629/

Let’s stand united against injustice & occupation! Join the global march for freedom & peace for the oppressed people & holy Land of #Palestine! #AlQudsday #Stoparmingisrael “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything” Malcolm X, #STAND4JUSTICE, if you would like to volunteer please message us

Thursday, May 23
7:00 pm
Brooklyn Commons
388 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2465714820106463/

Join us for a public forum on Thursday, May 23rd.

Three experts will discuss the importance of BDS as a global campaign to achieve human rights for Palestinians, as well as the rise of anti-BDS state and federal laws that undermine our Constitution.

Speakers include:
Nerdeen Kiswani- founder of Within Our Lifetime – United for Palestine
Brian Hauss- an ACLU Staff Attorney, working on the Speech, Privacy, and Technology project
Sumaya Awad- Palestinian writer and organizer, and co-founder of Against Canary Mission

Sunday, 19 May
4:00 pm
Piazza Guglielmo Miani
Milan, Italy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/393394484722482/

At 4:00 pm, gather in Piazza Miani for a solidarity gathering and material distribution

At 6:00 pm, assembly on the Palestinian struggle with speakers and videos, at BaRoNaTa 12/7 (Viale Faenza 12/7)

At 8:30 pm, benefit dinner for Palestinian political prisoners – Ramadan friendly! At BaRoNaTa 12/7

Dalle ore 16.00 Ritrovo in piazza Miani con merenda solidale con materiale informativo

Dalle ore 18 Assemblea di lotta per la casa con autoformazione sulla lotta Palestinese con video informativi e collegamenti telefonici alla BaRoNaTa 12/7

Dalle ore 20.30 Cena benefit per i prigionieri politici palestinesi: Ramadan Friendly! Alla BaRoNaTa 12/7 (Viale Faenza 12/7)

Bus 47-98-95-71-74
Metro M2 Famagosta

Saturday, 18 May
2:00 pm
SFU Vancouver
515 W. Hastings
Vancouver, Canada
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/441083029995730/

Followed by:
4:15 pm
BC Liquor Store, SFU Harbour Centre, gather W. Cordova entrance
Vancouver
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/872688873067520/

Speakers, Films, Personal Testimonies #ExistResistReturn

Gaza-born Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. His latest book is The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto Press, London). Baroud has a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and is a former Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara. His website is www.ramzybaroud.net.

Sobhi Al-Zobaidi is a Palestinian filmmaker, artist and scholar who was born in Jerusalem in 1961 and who grew up in the Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah. He studied economics at Birzeit University and Cinema at NYU. He is currently completing his Ph.D. at SFU.
He will be presenting his film, My Very Private Map

Local Palestinians will also present their personal stories of being Nakba survivors or descendants.
(This event is part of a Cross Canada Day of Action marking Nakba71.)
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(This event will follow the public meeting Nakba71 – The Palestinian Narrative at SFU Harbour Centre and is also part of the Nakba 71 -Cross Canada Day of Action to End Canadian Complicity)

David Eby, BC’s Attorney General, is responsible for the provincial Liquor Distribution Branch. For many years, there has been an ongoing local campaign to call for a boycott of Israeli wines, many of them produced in the Occupied Territories, which are being sold in our publicly owned BC Liquor Stores. We had hoped that the NDP government would be more concerned with these blatant violations of international human rights; we asked Mr. Eby to respond to this issue but received exactly the same response we got from previous governments, which was to completely ignore the issues raised and instead focus solely on “personal choice”.

The wines in question are either from the Galil Winery, which is a joint venture with the Golan Heights Winery (the name of which speaks for itself), or from the occupied West Bank, including the illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc around Jerusalem. Two wines of particular note are the Efrat Judean Hills Kosher and Vision Malbec, both produced by the Israeli Teperberg Winery. This winery openly states that some of its vineyards are in occupied Palestinian territories and even provides a map on its website showing vineyards in the occupied West Bank.

All of this is in direct contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention and “stated” Canadian policy. Detailed information on Israeli wineries can be found in the exhaustive study done by “Who Profits” entitled Forbidden Fruit: Israeli Wine Industry and Occupation.

Saturday, 18 May
2:00 pm
Yonge-Dundas Square
Toronto, Canada
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/392762484637473/

Join us in Toronto to show solidarity for the Palestinian people. In remembrance of the Nakba, let us gather in a show of strength and solidarity.

The Nakba was a day of catastrophe which marked the beginning of the violent ethnic cleansing and colonization of Palestine in 1948, which rested on the racist belief that Jews alone belong in Palestine.

The Israeli army and government has continued – even until now, 71 years since the Nakba – to steal land, murder and displace Palestinians, occupy Palestinian territory, and implement an apartheid regime.

Come out on the 18th to honour the ENERGY and STRENGTH of the Palestinian people who have never stopped resisting the oppressive Israeli state and its colonial violence.

Join us in our support for the RIGHT of RETURN for Palestinian refugees and for BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENTS, and SANCTIONS of the state of Israel.

Saturday, 18 May
1:00 pm
Brooklyn Public Library
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1520078454789255/

Join the NYC-DSA Anti-War Working Group as we canvas in support of H.R. 2407, the “Promoting Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation” Act.

Sign our petition calling on NY Congressional representatives to support the legislation: bit.ly/PalestinianChildren
[in the last session of Congress, the same legislation was supported by ZERO congressional reps from New York]

This is the first legislation in US history that would put in place US sanctions against Israel, in proportion to Israeli violations of Palestinian rights.

The U.S. currently gives $3.8b yearly in unconditional military aid to Israel. If implemented, this act would end US funding to systematic Israeli crimes against Palestinian children, under the Israeli military detention system in the occupied West Bank.

It should not be controversial to demand that US taxpayer dollars not go toward crimes against children— in Palestine, or anywhere!

Contact antiwar@socialists.nyc for info.

Wednesday, 15 May
6:00 pm
Migration Museum
82 Kintore Avenue
Adelaide, Australia
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/293365344890188/

Join us to commemorate 71 years since the Nakba (“catastrophe”) with a small gathering at the Migration Museum in Kintore Ave to acknowledge and hear the experiences of local Palestinian families by the Palestinian community plaque in the Museum forecourt.

May 15th, 1948, marks the day that over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and made refugees.

In 1948, the establishment of the State of Israel in historic Palestine through violent ethnic cleansing not only forced Palestinians from their homes, but also led to massacres of indigenous populations and the destruction of their villages.

After 71 years this bloodshed has not been forgotten, nor the right of Palestinians to return to their homes, property and land.

Tuesday, 14 May
5:00 pm
Norreport Station
Norre Voldgade
Copenhagen, Denmark
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/408296540024793/

Gather in Copenhagen on May 14 to commemorate the Nakba and demand a boycott of the “artwashing” Eurovision Song Contest. Stop dancing on Nakba day! Free Palestine!

Wednesday, 15 May
10:00 am
Israeli Consulate
800 2nd Avenue
NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/284427569101359/

**Please note time is TBD for now and we will confirm and update soon! It will definitely be in the morning, as that is when the consulate is open***

On May 15 (Nakba Day), clergy, people of faith, and laity will go together to the NYC Israeli consulate to embody solidarity with Palestinians. We are calling all faith leaders and people of faith in NYC to join us for prayer and to demand the Israeli government end the brutal occupation and grant Palestinians the space and right for their own self-determination.

Together, we will deliver or read the Kairos petition which states:

Declaring as unjust and illegal the occupation policies and practices of the State of Israel over seven decades, including…
• Creating over 700,000 Palestinian refugees in the Nakba (catastrophe), who were forced from their homes and villages in 1948-1949 when the State of Israel was established on 78% of historical Palestine;
• Occupying the remaining 22% of Palestine in 1967, in contravention of UN Council Resolution 242 which emphasizes the “inadmissibility of the acquiring of territory by war”;
• Imposing in Palestine military rule and segregation, including an unjust system of military law, a network of Israeli settler-only roads and checkpoints that restrict Palestinian freedom of movement and trade, and a separation wall judged by the International Court of Justice in 2004 as “a breach of international law”;
• Settling its populations into illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.This is in breach of the Geneva Conventions and has been consistently condemned by the international community and non-governmental organizations;
• Control of the airspace, territorial waters and land borders of Gaza, and restricting movement in and out of the territory, creating an urgent humanitarian crisis widely criticized by humanitarian organizations;
• Adopting the discriminatory July 2018 Nation State Law passed by Israel’s governing body, stipulating that Jewish people have a unique right to national self-determination not afforded other citizens of the state, elevating Hebrew above Arabic as Israel’s official language, unilaterally claiming Jerusalem as the “complete and united capital of Israel,” and endorsing “development of Jewish settlements as a national value.”

I (We), [a] member(s) of global civil society, call on the State of Israel to:
• End the occupation of Palestine immediately;
• Restore the full and equal rights of and end discrimination against Palestinian citizens living in Israel and between all inhabitants of the Land;
• Respect the right of return of Palestinian refugees.

Furthermore, we call on all countries to:
• Abide by their obligations under international law regarding the rights of the Palestinian people, as stipulated under the Geneva Conventions, and to provide the necessary protection afforded to them under international law from the daily violence imposed on them.