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IJAN Congratulates the PennBDS Conference

Popular Tribunal in Sao Paolo Focuses on Israel’s Role in Brazilian Repression

On August 16^th, 2014 the Front in Defense of the Palestinian People (Frente em Defesa do Povo Palestino) hosted a popular tribunal charging Israel with grave crimes for its attacks on the Palestinian people and its role in contributing to state repression in Brazil. The event, Popular Tribunal: Israel on the Defendant’s Bench featured powerful testimony from many important sectors affected by the Brazilian government’s close relationship with Israel, particularly its purchase of millions of dollars worth of Israeli weapons. Testimony from members of important social movements included the Homeless Workers' Movement (MTST), Quilombo Race and Class (Black caucus), the Students' Federations (ANEL and UNE) and Palestinians living in Brazil. The verdict presented by Judge Joao Batista Damasceno condemned Israel’s role in repression in Brazil itself and for supplying military equipment that Brazil uses in the UN occupation of Haiti. The tribunal follows the people’s movement assembly organized at the World Social Forum Free Palestine in Porto Alegre by IJAN, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the Palestinian Youth Movement with testimony from organizers from across the globe. Here are links to the 7 part video of this assembly: pt 1, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, pt 5, pt 6 and pt 7. The full verdict and sentence from the Sao Paulo tribunal is posted below in English. To read more about the tribunal in Portuguese, click here.

Statement by Jewish Activists and Organizations active in BDS against Israel

Because academic, cultural and commercial boycotts, divestments and sanctions of Israel:

are being called for by Palestinian civil society in response to the occupation and colonization of their land,
are a moral tool of non-violent, peaceful response to more than sixty years of Israeli colonialism, and,
rightfully place accountability on Israeli institutions (and their allies and partners) that use business, cultural, and academic ties to white-wash Israel’s responsibility for continuing crimes against humanity,

The undersigned organizations and individuals stand firm in our support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) initiatives against Israel until it meets its obligation to recognize the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and fully complies with the precepts of international law.

Statement in support of the Egyptian Revolution

The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) salutes the courage and resolve of the Egyptian people and honors the martyrs of the people's struggle. We see the increasing mobilization, determination, boldness and joy of those who every day learn more of what they want and how to get it, and are teaching all of us.

Every day we are witness to the arrogant rulers plotting against it and growing fearful of the power of the movement and what it is accomplishing against them and for all. May the Egyptian example set fire in the heart of people and may the revolution that started in Tahrir Square advance and be the mother of many revolutions all over the world.

As the Tunisians before them, the people of Egypt has risen up against the tyrannical and brutal imposed on them by the United States in conjunction with the Zionist regime of Israel and their collaborators, a larcenous rule that condemned the Egyptian people to decades of poverty, torture, and humiliation. For three decades, Egypt has been the second largest recipient of US aid after Israel, monies that were invested in oppression and corruption and generated poverty and misery for Egypt while facilitating Israel’s continuing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. As Israeli politicians and their allies in the US flock to support Mubarak’s tattering regime, the world can see what the phrase, “the only democracy in the Middle East,” really stands for.