-------- Original Message -------- Subject: (en) Syndicalist Youth of Sweden: Boycot Israel! Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 03:27:16 -0500 (EST) From: Mikael Altemark <altemark at home.se> Reply-To: a-infos-en at ainfos.ca To: <a-infos-en at ainfos.ca>
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Swedish Syndicalist Youth Federation: The Intifada shows us the way - Boycot Israel!
Since one and a half year back, the Palestine revolt is raging against the Israeli occupation government. The [swedish] Syndicalist Youth Federation's twelth congress expresses its full support for the Palestinian people's heroic struggle against this the last outpost of European colonialism. It was the European colonial governments who let the zionists colonize Palestine in the beginning of the 20th century. It was with the good memory of these powers the zionist forces drive out the Palestines, stole their land and erected their racist state on Palestinian ground. This is a process which still continues. When Israel closed it's claws around what remained of Palestine in 1967 they became the western world's foremost outpost in the arab world and now, when they yet again try to crush the Palestinian struggle for liberation the USA-led imperialism stand by Israel in word and deed. This means that we the population of the imperialist countries has an obligation to protest.
When a Palestinian child throws a stone at the USA-made Israeli tanks, or when a Palestinian revolutionary points a Kalasjnikiv against an illegal Israeli settlement, they are not only bright examples for their people. Not only do they show the way to liberation for the masses who are weighed down under the reactionary USA-supported arab regeimes, or for the billions of africans, asians or south-americans who suffer under the direct or indirect imperialism of the western world, under the USA-supported dictatorships or under the suffocating grip of the IMF and the World Bank. No, the Intifada also shows the way for millions of workers in the west and for us revolutionaries who struggle in the heart of imperialism. The struggle which is waged in the workplaces in Sweden, the struggle on the streets of Seattle, Prague, Nice and Gothenburg is the same struggle that is waged in Palestine, against the USA-supported imperialism.
We wholeheartedly support this struggle, and at the same time we distance ourselves from those who classify the Palestinian freedom fighters as "terrorists" or demand a "stop for the violence on both sides". What is an occupation if not violence? It is in accordance with all morality, logic and international right that the occupied have the right to resist. The armed attacks against the Israeli occupation government are as legitimate as the armed Norwegian resistance movement during the WWII, and the armed Palestinian struggle for liberation is as legitimate as those that have occured in Algeria, Angola, Mozambique, Vietnam - any given colonized country.
We express our special support for the Palestinian left. Both for it's tactics - struggle with stones and those weapons available against Israeli settlers and military, and for it's disassociation from attacks directed at civilians inside the zionist entity (the state Israel), and also their goal of a democratic state for both jews and Palestianians in the whole of historic Palestine and full right for the Palestinian refugees to return.
At the same time it is clear that the Intifada can't victor alone. It is not only our moral duty to support it but also a neccessity. We must put the pressure which is needed on Israel to make the occupation to costly to uphold. We join in on the demand of boycotting Israel that has begun to be heard in solidarity movements in Europe. Don't by Israeli fruit! Don't travel to Israel! Just as we made the Apartheid of South Africa fall on it's knees, so shall we bring down the Israeli occupation.
So: The Intifada shows us the way! Boycot Israel!
The 12th Congress of the Syndicalist Youth Federation, 19th February 2002.
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