The NGOs called on the German parliament to retract its decision against the boycott movement and the withdrawal of BDS Investments, which aims to delegitimize the peaceful Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation and the apartheid regime, asserting that depriving the Palestinians of their right to peacefully call for freedom Justice and Equality place the German Chamber of Deputies at odds with international law.
The participants in the vigil organized by the network of Palestinian NGOs in front of the headquarters of the German representation in Gaza City, with the wide participation of activists, jurists and representatives of the institutions, denounced the decision of the German parliament to criminalize the boycott of the BDS province, they raised slogans denouncing The German decision to consider the BDS Province movement in support of the rights of the Palestinian people to be equal to that of the non-Semitic. They also called on the German parliament to undo its decision and respect the rights of our people.
Hala Jabr, a member of the network´s coordinating body, said in a statement that the boycott and divestment movement BDS calls for peaceful pressure on Israeli colonization and apartheid--as well as against companies and institutions complicit in human rights violations--to comply with Full of its obligations under international law.
Jabr noted that the BDS global boycott movement, led by the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society, was based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which rejects all forms of racism and discrimination, including Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, sexual discrimination and anti-black racism, It is inspired by the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and the American civil rights movement. The boycott movement is aimed at complicity, not identity.
It called on Germany to end all forms of collusion with the Israeli occupation by banning Israel´s illegal settlement products and services, ending all military research and military trade relations with Israel, as well as supporting the suspension of the EU partnership agreement so so that Israel respects the provisions of the Human Rights Convention.
In his speech, Ayman Ali, a member of the National Committee of the boycott campaign BDS the German parliament, demanded that the wrong step be undone, and support the right of the Palestinian people to liberate themselves from occupation and exercise the right to self- determination that all the peoples of the Earth have won.
A delegation from the NGO network met with engineer Imad Alshlfoh, director of the Office of the German representation in the Gaza Strip, and delivered a letter to the German parliament and government.
