Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Protest Thursday March 11th at 7:30 AM NO OREGON TRADE WITH AN APARTHEID STATE! The Oregon Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid. More info: 503-421-6845

We will hold a picket outside the "Doing Business with Israel/Middle East: A Business Oregon Seminar", at the Embassy Suites Hotel - 319 SW Pine Street

Here is the description of the event we will be protesting:

Doing Business with Israel/Middle East: A Business Oregon Seminar with Atid-E.D.I. Registration opens at 7:30 and the seminar starts at 8:00 am. Main presenters: Sherwin Pomerantz, President and Ben Dansker, Vice President of Atid-E.D.I. Come to learn about the latest market conditions in Israel and the Middle East and network with other businesses interested in this region.

Until Israel revokes its apartheid policies and becomes a democratic state with equal rights for all its residents, we call for BOYCOTT AND DIVESTMENT of all business and trade with Israel.

The Oregon Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid. More info: 503-421-6845

Why protest business and trade relations with Israel? Israeli is an apartheid state, under the definition given by the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid GA Resolution 3068 (1973), which state: 1.Apartheid refers to policies and practices enacted in order establish and maintain domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them. 2.More broadly, Apartheid refers to any social system that separates and discriminates against people based on race or ethnicity or other similar non-malleable characteristic, when that system is institutionalized by laws or decrees.

Israel defines itself as a Jewish and Democratic State. That means that while some rights are based on citizenship, others are based on nationality, distinguishing the rights available to Jew and non-Jew, irrespective of one's citizenship. In effect, Israel's Jewish citizens are privileged over non-Jews. A full list of Israel's apartheid laws and practices can be found at http://www.endtheoccupation.org

Why should the international community divest from Israel? Israel will not abandon its apartheid policies without concerted pressure from an international community concerned with social, economic, and political justice. According to South African anti-apartheid activist, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 'The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century, but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure'in particular the divestment movement of the 1980s. Over the past six months a similar movement has taken shape, this time aiming at an end to the Israeli occupation'.These tactics are not the only parallels to the struggle against apartheid. Yesterday's South African township dwellers can tell you about life in the Occupied Territories.' Why protest business and trade relations with Israel? Israeli is an apartheid state, under the definition given by the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid GA Resolution 3068 (1973), which state: 3.Apartheid refers to policies and practices enacted in order establish and maintain domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them. 4.More broadly, Apartheid refers to any social system that separates and discriminates against people based on race or ethnicity or other similar non-malleable characteristic, when that system is institutionalized by laws or decrees.

Israel defines itself as a Jewish and Democratic State. That means that while some rights are based on citizenship, others are based on nationality, distinguishing the rights available to Jew and non-Jew, irrespective of one's citizenship. In effect, Israel's Jewish citizens are privileged over non-Jews. A full list of Israel's apartheid laws and practices can be found at http://www.endtheoccupation.org

Why should the international community divest from Israel? Israel will not abandon its apartheid policies without concerted pressure from an international community concerned with social, economic, and political justice. According to South African anti-apartheid activist, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 'The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century, but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure'in particular the divestment movement of the 1980s. Over the past six months a similar movement has taken shape, this time aiming at an end to the Israeli occupation'.These tactics are not the only parallels to the struggle against apartheid. Yesterday's South African township dwellers can tell you about life in the Occupied Territories.'