Boycott Israel Campaign

TEACH-IN: ARTICLES

The misinformation and lies the zionists disseminate is truly all engulfing. This section aims to redress this by providing well researched articles that shatter the zionist lies. Please read them, share them and most importantly use them against the zionist propagandists. If people out there dont know the truth how can they support our cause?

Case Study Of Pro-Israel Bias: Children's BBC Website

BBC's childrens website CBBC has "ready to use lessons-plans" on the middle-east conflict for teachers to print out and use in the classroom, the traget audience being 11-14 year olds. We dissect each lesson page by page to reveal their pro-Israel bias.

We suggest this case study of pro-Israel bias in a leading "educational" website be used to form the basis of a lesson on media bias to be taught at schools, and Madressa's, and by parents to their children at home. The best way to teach your children about the pro-zionist bias around them is to show them an example, one which they can understand and relate to because it targets them.

Khiam Prison - Israels Torture Den

Khiam prison was a detention and interrogation camp during the years of the Israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. From 1985 until the Israeli defeat in May 2000, thousands of Lebanese men, women and even children were held in Khiam without trial. Most were brutally tortured - some died. The photo-article is quiet graphic at times but it must be read.

Ali Kashmar was imprisoned for 10 yrs, starting as a child aged 14:

"It's really hard to summarise all that period [of imprisonment] in seconds. But I tell you something - when you die you die in a second but in that prison you died a hundred times every day."

It is important to understand what happened at Khiam as it is the only Israeli torture den that has been liberated, from seeing what went on there we can understand what goes on in the countless other "detention and interrogation" centres that we do not have access to. Next time you hear of a Palestinian being held in detention think of Khiam.

The Jews of Iraq by Naeim Giladi

After the Palestinians were uprooted from their land, foreign Jews came to populate the confiscated land. Among then, came over half a million Jews from Islamic lands. Zionist propagandists claim that Israel "rescued" these Jews from their anti-Jewish Muslim neighbours. One of those "rescued" Jews-Naeim Giladi-knows otherwise. He describes how the zionists terrorized the Jews in Muslim lands in to emigrating to Israel.

In his own words:

"I write this article to tell the American people, and especially American Jews, that Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel; that, to force them to leave, Jews killed Jews..."

This article shatters the zionist lie that Jews were evicted from Muslim lands because of anti-semitism and provides evidence that the zionists were happy to "manufacture" anti-semitism to the extent of murdering fellow Jews in order to further the interests of the zionist state.

TEACH-IN: AUDIO LECTURES

	Eye-Witness To Sabra-Shatila Massacre A moving eye-witness account of the massacres of Sabra-Shatila by Dr Ang Swee Chai.	"The slaughter of unarmed children, women, the aged and the infirm was shocking. For me, I was doubly outraged that I had to discover the truth about a brave and generous people only through their deaths. Until then, I never knew Palestinian refugees existed. As a fundamentalist Christian, I had been a supporter of Israel, hated Arabs and saw the Palestinian Liberation Organisation as terrorists to be loathed and feared."
	Palestine: History & Our Responsibility A Ramadhan lecture on the history of Palestine and what our responsibility as Muslims is. Concise history of Palestine in 10 minutes!
	Jews Against Zionism Inaugural meeting. Listen to three great speakers and the discussion that followed: Lenni Brenner - is an expert on the suppressed history of Zionist collaboration with the Nazis. He is the author of “Zionism in the Age of the Dictators” and "51 Documents - Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis". Prof. Haim Bresheeth - a film maker, author and anti-zionist activist Alice Coy - an activist with the International Solidarity Movement, was with Rachel Corrie when she was killed and with Tom Hurndall when he was shot. She was recently deported after spending 4 months in Gaza.
	Interview - Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss is the spokesperson for the Neturei Karta International - Jews against Zionism. We asked him about their opposition to zionism, their rejection of a two-state solution and their wish for the dismantlement of the zionist state. And on how Muslims and anti-zionist Jews can best work together to defeat zionism.	"Zionism is a rebellion against God"
	How to Campaign for Human Rights An IHRC workshop for students on campaigning for Human Rights. Palestine formed the special case study for international campaigning.
	Interview - Imam Achmad Cassiem A veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, he was imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela. We asked him about Palestine. His insights based on his experience of the anti-apartheid struggle and its eventual capitulation with the apartheid regime, are very revealing and need to be studied by all Muslims, especially Palestinians.
	Palestine - An Islamic Approach A lecture by Imam Al-Asi. We have witnessed the failure of un-Islamic approaches to the issue of Palestine from Camp David to Oslo, from pan-arabism to the PA. Now listen to an Islamic approach to the issue of Palestine - a very thought provoking lecture which reflects on where we are and where we need to be and how to get there and what will happen if we don't. A must for every Muslim.
	Pro-Israel Lobby - A Lobby to Reckon With An interesting radio programme (BBC) about the alliance that has formed in America between the zionists and the ultra-right Christians culminating in a stronger pro-israel lobby.
	Judaism and zionism A lecture by Rabbi Goldstein of the Neturei Karta (Jews against zionism) in which he gives a historic overview of zionism and the creation of the zionist state, explaining its incompatibility with Judaism.
	USA, Israel and the UN World Conference Against Racism (Durban, Sept 2001) A lecture by Massoud Shadjareh of the IHRC in which he describes what happened at Durban and how the NGO conference managed to achieve its historic declaration condemning zionism as racism and Israel for genocide, resulting in a US/Israel walkout.

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A Day Of Comments. In case you every wondered what sort of comments we receive, we have decided to share with you a sample from the last 24 hours (Sat 20th April to Sun 21st April , 2002). Its worth a peek!

USEFUL EXTERNAL LINKS

	Islamic Human Rights Commision (IHRC) - organisers of the Marks & Spencers Boycott Campaign as well as several other Palestine related projects. Good reports on Palestine for download (PDF). Newly redesigned website - check it out!
	Friends of Al-Aqsa - Good source of information on the different campaigns and boycotts in place aswell as the actual struggle taking place in Palestine.
	Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) - organisers of the BIG (Boycott Israeli Goods) campaign. Regularly hosts seminars, etc - just look at our Events Calendar above!
	Sustain - "Stop US Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now" campaign. Good information about US funding of israel and israels use of the money in terrorizing Palestinians.
	Al-Awda [ Palestine Right to Return Coalition] . Several campaigns, including Intel boycott. Watch out for upcomming documentary production "Palestine is Waiting".
	Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) - produce some good videos about Palestine, recommended is "The Return (Awda)" showing first hand the lives of Palestinian refugees in camps in Syria, Lebanon and Jordon. Available in english or arabic.
	Occupation101 - great trailer for upcomming documentary on the israeli occupation. Well worth the download!
	MPACUK - active group of campaigners, helps picket M&S every Thursday 6-8pm in Marble Arch
	Boycott Israeli Goods - New site launched in the USA - current campaigns include boycott israeli tomatoes. Promising site - keep an eye on it.(NB: not related to PSCs BIG campaign).
	Boycott Israel - A new UK portal for Palestine, good links with descriptions.
	Palestine is Bleeding - active Canadian Palestinian Human Rights group, have arranged Hunger Strike for Palestine, protest marches, etc. New website.
	Boycott Southam Newspapers - Israel “Izzy”Aspers, owners of CanWest Global Communications, Canada’s largest media corporation, have “clamped down on news, criticism, or commentary that is anything but 100 percent pro-Israeli.”. Support the boycott against their newspapers. [see boycott news item]
	Al Saher - According to the chinese saying, a picture is worth 10,000 words. Well its certainly true here. Visit this site to see the struggle in photos, each annotated with a brief succinct message.