Picket on Woodies

cork | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Sunday September 16, 2007 19:29 by Joe Moore - Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign mapuche at eircom dot net 087-2994796

Boycott Isreali Products

The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Cork will place a picket on Woodies DIY store on the Kinsale Road, (opposite the former CMP Dairy site) on Saturday 29th September between 1.00pm and 3.00pm.
All welcome

As we approach the 60th anniversary of the adoption by the UN of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which affirms a persons right to own property and to leave and return to their country, Woodies need to consider if their support for the apartheid regime is morally justifiable. In doing so they should consider the following fact, one of the many which discredits the Isreali state and calls into question the moral judgement of anyone who is willing to support such a despicable regime;

Contrary to the often recited claim, Israel is not a democracy. After the establishment of the Israeli state, 750,000 legal citizens of that state were forced from their homes and farms and their property was illegally confiscated. Today, 60 years later, their numbers swollen to over 4,000,000 and despite a UN resolution confirming their right to return they remain crammed into refugee camps through out the region, still denied their inalienable rights by the apartheid regime in Israel.