[van-announce] Take Action: Online Protest Against the Prawer Plan: Write John Baird

[Charlotte Kates]

Take Action: Online Protest Against the Prawer Plan: Write John
Baird<http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org/2013/take-action-online-protest-against-the-prawer-plan/#baird>

[image: prawer-english]<http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org/biac/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/prawer-english.jpg>The
Israeli government’s new initiative, the Prawer
Plan<http://adalah.org/eng/?mod=articles&ID=1589>,
means the forcible removal of up to 70,000 Palestinian Bedouin citizens of
Israel from the Naqab, the destruction of over 35 “unrecognized” villages,
and the loss of 800,000 dunums of land. The Bedouin would be relocated to
“townships” set up by the Israeli state. *Click here to write to Minister
of Foreign Affairs John Baird now and demand that Canada stand against the
Prawer Plan.*<http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org/2013/take-action-online-protest-against-the-prawer-plan/#baird>

This draft law has been approved on first reading by the Knesset. It has
second and third readings before it becomes law, so it is time for
international action and solidarity. The Bedouin community and the
Palestinian movement have universally come out in opposition to the plan
which threatens to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians of the Naqab.

The Prawer Plan violates international law, including the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, International Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It has been
condemned by the European Parliament and the UN Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

91 notable Canadian
authors<http://www.cjpme.org/DisplayHTMLDocument.aspx?DO=795&ICID=3&RecID=1124&SaveMode=0>
signed
an open letter calling for an end to the Prawer plan – and for a change in
Canadian policy. Rick Roth, spokesperson of Minister of Foreign Affairs
John Baird, described this planned ethnic cleansing and forced mass
eviction as an “internal Israeli matter.”

Human rights violations, mass expulsions, and dispossession of indigenous
people is a concern for the conscience of the world. In fact, these things
are already happening and have been happening on an ongoing basis to
Bedouins in the Naqab who are regularly subject to land confiscation, home
demolitions, and are denied public services such as electricity in their
villages.

Canadian government policy is particularly disturbing in that the Prawer
Plan and the displacement of indigenous peoples is distinctly similar to
Canada’s own dispossession of indigenous peoples on this land, from forced
evictions, to land confiscation, to “resettlement” and residential schools.

Palestinians have called for two “Days of Anger” to protest the Prawer
Plan. One of those days is today, August 1. Join in the virtual protest
against the Prawer Plan by sending the letter below to Minister of Foreign
Affairs John Baird demanding that Canada end its unconditional support to
Israeli racism and apartheid.

*Tweet now: Israeli govt threatens Bedouin w/mass expulsion.Canada calls it
“internal Israeli matter” Speak out: http://wp.me/p1SS3T-el
#StopPrawerPlan<https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Israeli+govt+threatens+Bedouin+w%2Fmass+expulsion.Canada+calls+it+%22internal+Israeli+matter%22+Speak+out%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fwp.me%2Fp1SS3T-el+%23StopPrawerPlan&source=clicktotweet>
*

For more information on the Prawer Plan, please click here:
http://adalah.org/eng/?mod=articles&ID=1589
To read the letter by 91 Canadian writers, please click here:
http://www.cjpme.org/DisplayHTMLDocument.aspx?DO=795&ICID=3&RecID=1124&SaveMode=0

*Click here to write to Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird now and
demand that Canada stand against the Prawer
Plan.<http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org/2013/take-action-online-protest-against-the-prawer-plan/#baird>
*

*Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign - boycottisraeliapartheid.org*

*Twitter: @BIACVancouver <http://twitter.com/biacvancouver> -
boycottapartheid at gmail.com*






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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com