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Boycott the Jericho-Tel Aviv Public Events on October 18th!

Thursday, 18 October 2007
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

STATEMENT FROM THE PALESTINIAN ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL
(PACBI)

Celebrating Peace or Camouflaging Apartheid?
Boycott the Jericho-Tel Aviv Public Events on October 18th!

On October 18th, One Million Voices, an organization led by Israelis and
international figures with the support of some Palestinians, is organizing a
public event in Jericho and Tel Aviv, simultaneously. The event will include
performances by renowned artists Brian Adams and Ilham Madfa'i. As stated on
the organization's English webpage, the objective of the event is to "mark
the first time that massive numbers of Israelis and Palestinians gather
simultaneously to unite against violent extremism."

According to the widely accepted boycott criteria advocated by the
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
(PACBI), the event falls under the category of normalization projects and
violates the call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), endorsed by
over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations, trade unions, political
parties, and grassroots movements, for the following reasons:

Participants are required to join the One Voice Movement and sign a mandate
-- ostensibly based on a "two-state solution," but without any commitment to
international parameters -- which assumes equal responsibility of "both
sides" for the "conflict," and suspiciously fails to call for Israel's full
compliance with its obligations under international law through ending its
illegal military occupation, its denial of Palestinian refugee rights
(particularly the right of return), and its system of racial discrimination
against its own Palestinian citizens.

The event is sponsored by Israeli institutions (mostly from the private
sector) and endorsed by mainstream Israeli political figures from parties
including the Likud and Shas. These Israeli "partners" are unquestionably
complicit in maintaining Israel 's occupation and other forms of oppression.

We believe this event is being organized to promote a "peace" agreement that
is devoid of the minimal requirements of justice, and that will leave the
Palestinian people as disenfranchised as previous agreements have. The
unfortunate and harmful support of Palestinian businessmen, religious and
political figures, among others, for this event indicates either ignorance
of the hidden agenda inherent in the whole initiative, deceptively
camouflaged as a collective call for peace, or willingness to forfeit the
inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in return for advancing selfish
interests.

We call on the Palestinian public and international supporters of a just
peace in Palestine not to take part in this public relations charade that
conceals a misleading political program that falls significantly short of
international law tenets and the Palestinian national program.

We call on Arab and Palestinian artists, in particular, not to participate
in this or any similar event whose real objectives have nothing to do with
genuine peace.

We call on Palestinian board members of the One Million Voices to withdraw
their support for this movement that only serves to blind the Palestinian
public and sidetrack it from struggling, with the solidarity of its
international supporters, for its UN-sanctioned rights, for justice,
equality and freedom.

***** Organizations that would like to endorse the above statement are
requested to kindly e-mail info (at) boycottisrael.ps *****

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