[van-announce] False Claims Against Picket - Your Support Needed! Nov. 20 - Lavan, You Can't Whitewash the Occupation!

[Charlotte Kates]

*False Claims made by Lavan against BIAC Picket - your support and
participation is needed on Sunday!

*
It has come to the attention of BIAC that Lavan is making false,
inflammatory and racist claims about BIAC and the protest scheduled for
Sunday. Despite the fact that BDS has a local, national and international
record of being a non-violent and peaceful means of action and that BIAC
has never called for, engaged in or endorsed violent confrontation, Lavan
is claiming that they fear violence because of the "amount of anger and
hatred the Palestinians and their supporters hold towards the state of
Israel." Invoking the Stanley Cup riots and asserting that Occupy Vancouver
has met a "violent end" (as the occupation peacefully continues at the
Vancouver Art Gallery), Lavan has inflamed the situation by requesting an
unnecessary police presence at the informational picket.  (View Lavan's
claims here: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185841724834767).
Nov. 20: Lavan – You Can’t Whitewash the
Occupation!<http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org/2011/nov-20-lavan-you-cant-whitewash-the-occupation/>
*LAVAN – YOU CAN’T WHITEWASH THE OCCUPATION!*

*Picket Lavan Body Mind and Soap*
* Sunday, November 20*
* 1:00 PM*
* 840 Granville St (Granville and Robson), Vancouver*

*Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=319182874762426*

Part of the International Week of Action Against the Apartheid
Wall<http://stopthewall.org/week-against-apartheid-wall>

Join the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign for an informational picket
outside Lavan: Body Mind and Soap on Sunday, November 20 at 1:00 PM. Lavan
Vancouver boasts of its ‘natural’ Israeli soaps and beauty products. Join
us to inform Vancouver that there’s nothing green about apartheid!
 While Israeli companies like Lavan benefit from the minerals of the Dead
Sea, Palestinians from the illegally Israeli-occupied West Bank have been
denied access to the northern Dead Sea’s beaches and minerals for over a
decade. The northern Dead Sea area, inside the West Bank, is 77%
confiscated by occupation military officials and illegal colonial
settlements. Furthermore, all Israeli companies – and the Israeli economy,
based on apartheid and exploitation of Palestinian resources – benefit from
Israeli apartheid, while the Palestinian people, living under occupation
and apartheid and in exile, have called for a global campaign of boycott,
divestment and sanctions against all Israeli goods, products, and
institutions.

Israel destroys Palestinian lives, livelihoods and homes daily, refuses to
stop building its illegal settlements and apartheid wall on stolen land,
continues to control Gaza while slicing the West Bank into Bantustans,
denies Palestinian refugees their right to return, grows produce and sets
up industrial zones on stolen Palestinian land, and operates an apartheid,
racist system on both sides of the ‘green line’. Companies like Lavan,
which one news article reported that “when creating the store and the
products, pride in Israel was part of the package,” reflect pride in
apartheid.

Join us for an informational picket and literature distribution – Boycott
Lavan, Boycott Israeli Apartheid!

Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign
http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org
boycottapartheid at gmail.com


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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com




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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com