Because…

• Israel is a settler colonial state founded on the ethnic cleansing of 80% of the indigenous Palestinian people…
• And because Israel considers Palestinian women a “demographic threat,”…
• And because one in four women in Gaza, and 4 in 5 children there, are undernourished…
• And because the siege on Gaza was described as “catastrophic” and a “prelude to genocide” even before the latest murderous assault…
• And because Amnesty International, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and a UN-commissioned independent report have concluded that Israel’s offensive in Gaza amounted to “crimes against humanity”…
• And because the restrictions imposed by Israel have resulted in a 58% increase in miscarriages among Palestinian women in the West Bank in a single year…
• And because Israel celebrates the declining Palestinian birth rate as a success, while encouraging Jewish women to have more children…
• And because Israel promotes itself as a haven for gays, while barring queer Palestinians from participating in Pride day celebrations…
• And because Palestinian children are arrested by Israeli soldiers with no right to due process, and are imprisoned without any charges against them…
• And because Israel is the largest recipient of US aid (over $3 billion/year), and our tax dollars are used to create a
  living hell for Palestinian women and children…
• And because, since 2000, nearly 6500 Palestinians have been killed, including over 1400 children, and 40,000
  have been injured…
• And because, since 2000, 20,000 Palestinian homes have been demolished; to allow for Israeli “natural growth,”…
• And because Israel has resisted all official attempts to force it to comply with international law and end its violation of Palestinian human rights…
• And because Israeli control and domination of the geographic terrain and resources of Palestine deny Palestinian families the right to free mobility, clean water, food, and other basic living necessities…
• And because reports of torture and sexual violence of Palestinian men and women political prisoners and detainees violate international human rights law…
• And because Israel’s entrenched system of discrimination and segregation constitutes an apartheid system as harsh as South Africa’s old system…
• And because the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement played a major role in ending apartheid in South Africa, and is the model and inspiration of the Palestinian people today…
• And because Palestinian civilian society, not their corrupt “leaders,” is calling upon the international community to show its solidarity and support by engaging in a similar consistent and comprehensive movement…

INCITE! Supports the Palestinian call for BDS: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel.

For more information and suggestions on actions you can take, please visit:
http://www.bdsmovement.net
http://www.pacbi.org

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