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Government complains about BBC decision to ban Gaza appeal-Add your complaint now

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The BBC must reverse its decision. Complain to the BBC here.

Stop the War understands that the government has contacted the BBC to complain about its decision to refuse the broadcasting of a humanitarian appeal for Gaza.

The BBC’s decision will prevent the raising of millions of pounds in emergency aid being sent to Gaza. Stop the War demands that the exchange between the government and the BBC be made public immediately.

Brendan Gormley, of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), which is co-ordinating a national appeal for Gaza said, “We deeply regret this decision. Agencies are already providing food, drugs and blankets as well as delivering clean water. But we will soon reach the limit of what we can do, without more money.”

The reason the BBC has given for blocking an appeal for emergency aid is that it wants “to avoid any risk of compromising public confidence in the BBC’s impartiality”.

Lindsey German, National Convenor of Stop the War said, “What has ‘impartiality’ to do with an appeal for humanitarian aid to a devastated people? How can you be impartial about that? Either these people need the aid or they don’t.”

This is the first time in the 48 years of DEC national appeals for humanitarian aid that a broadcast has been refused. DEC estimates that £10 million of urgently required aid would not now be sent to help Palestinians in Gaza, living in catastrophic conditions.

“This is a betrayal of the BBC’s obligation to be a public service,” said Tony Benn, President of Stop the War. “To deny the help that the aid agencies and the UN need is incomprehensible.”

It is imperative that the BBC responds to the government’s complaint and reverses its decision to refuse this broadcast. If it does not, we will see people in Gaza continue to suffer due to being denied emergency relief because of BBC ‘impartiality’.

Gaza Action #1

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Rally - Lobby - Boycott - Donate

Rally

MAJOR GLOBAL JANUARY RALLIES occurred from Jan 1-11, including a 100,000 strong rally in London on the 10th January. Please check the links below for further actions.

*** For updates on US cities, please visit ANSWER: Act-Now-to-Stop-War-and-Racism and US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation page

*** For updates on UK cities, please visit this Palestine Solidarity Campaign page and the Scottish Palestine Solidarity campaign

*** For updates on your city, visit your national or local anti-war group; a good source is http://www.indymedia.org http://YOURCITY.indymedia.org (insert your city)

Lobby

USA

1. Contact the White House to protest the attack and demand an immediate cease-fire. Call 202-456-1111 or send an email to [email protected].

2. Contact the State Department at 202-647-6575

3. Contact your Representative and Senators in Congress at 202-224-3121

4. Contact your local media by phoning into a talk show or writing a letter to the editor

ISRAEL

Mr. Ehud Barak,
Minister of Defence,
Ministry of Defence,
Hakirya,
Tel-Aviv 64743,
Israel.
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
Tel.: ++972-3-6975540 or ++972-3-6975423
Fax: ++972-3-6976711

    Ma’ariv:
    2 Karlibach st.
    Tel-Aviv 67132
    Israel
    Fax: +972-3-561-06-14
    e-mail: [email protected]
    Yedioth Aharonoth:
    2 Moses st.
    Tel-Aviv
    Israel
    Fax: +972-3-608-25-46
    Ha’aretz (Hebrew):
    21 Schocken st.
    Tel-Aviv, 61001
    Israel
    Fax: +972-3-681-00-12
    Ha’aretz (English edition):
    21 Schocken st.
    Tel-Aviv, 61001
    Israel
    Fax: +972-3-512-11-56
    e-mail: [email protected]
    Radio (fax numbers):
    Kol-Israel +972-2-531-33-15
    Galei Zahal +972-3-512-67-20
    Television (fax numbers):
    Channel 1 +972-2-530-15-36
    Channel 2 +972-2-533-98-09
    Channel 10 +972-3-733-16-66

UK

(courtesy of BRICUP)

1. Join or organize emergency protests and direct actions in partnership with Palestine solidarity and social justice organisations in your area. Send reports of actions you participate in so this information can be shared with people around the world.

2. Donate money through:

Medical Aid for Palestine
http://www.map-uk.org/

Middle East Children’s Alliance
https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=1171

to pay for desperately needed medical supplies and their delivery. The current conditions in Gaza medical facilities are dire.

3. Flood Israeli embassies and consulates with letters and calls decrying the attacks. Find contact info for Israeli embassies around the world.

http://www.learn4good.com/travel/israel_embassies.htm

4. Shift the framing of Israel’s actions in the media by phoning into a talk show or writing a letter to the editor.

5. Sign the petition in support of UN General Assembly President Father Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/IJAN_Brockmann_BDS/

He has spoken out to condemn Israeli Apartheid and called for boycott, divestment and sanctions.

6. Write to your member of parliament.
If you are in the UK, you can find your MP’s details on this site:

http://www.writetothem.com/

7. If you are in Europe write to your MEP

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members.do

8. Write to members of the Israeli government and members of the Knesset

Download a list of e-mail addresses

9-12. If you are in the UK you can do the following (or the equivalents if you live elsewhere)

9. Write to:

(a) the Labour Party using this online form:

http://www.labour.org.uk/contact

(b) the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron

[email protected]

(You could mention you are appalled that he has been on the BBC calling for restraint on all sides when nearly 300 Palestinians have been killed.)

10. British Consulate Jerusalem
+972 (02) 541 4100

11. British Embassy Tel Aviv
+972 (02) 3510 1167 / +972 (03) 527 1572
Call them.

12. Fax the office of the UK Prime Minister - Gordon Brown -
on +44 20 7925 0918

AUSTRALIA
Israeli Ambassador to Australia
HE Yuval Rotem
[email protected]

Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
The Hon Stephen Smith
[email protected]

Australian Ambassador to Israel
HE John Larsen
Fax: +972 3 6935002

Boycott

  • Global Boycott Movement
  • Electronic Intifada — Boycott Divestment Sanctions by topic
  • PACBI: Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural boycott of Israel
  • Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) Resources - UK
  • Boycott Israel - InMinds
  • Boycott Israel to end the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza

Donate

Charities

KinderUSA
http://www.kinderusa.org

American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
http://www.anera.org
Islamic Relief
http://www.islamic-relief.com
Medical Aid for Palestine
http://www.map-uk.org/

To Americans: Re-evaluate Aid to Israel, Vote NOW!

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Reevaluate whether the level of and the basis for the aid we provide Israel is appropriate given our tough economic circumstance. Presently I fail to see the benefits to our country that would justify the extraordinarily high per-capita level of aid.

A comment posted by Willbearsmom:

I weep that my tax dollars are being spent to support the state-sanctioned murder of children. Israel has literally penned these people in a giant prison from which there is no escape and is bombing them. Half the population of Gaza is children. The result of this invasion is both monstrous and inevitable. We can no longer pretend to be on the side of right when we blindly support a nation who has used a legitimate security threat as an excuse to force a group of people into an Apartheid situation and then treating them like the objects of a grotesque canned hunt. There can be no excuse for bombing mosques and schools. If you saw a gunman firing at you from near a school, would you destroy it with a rocket, knowing you would kill dozens of children? What kind of monsters make the choice to bomb the school?

This is what happens when the United States commits atrocities and loses the right of moral leadership. We all need to stand up and admit that our government has been wrong, that this incursion by Israel is wrong, that this must be stopped.

Also vote here:

A Change in US Policy Toward Israel and Palestine

A Change in our Policy towards Israel

Stop supplying Israel with weapons

Place real economic pressure on Israel to stop the growth of settlements in the West Bank

Engage strongly for Israeli-Palestinian peace.


Israel must be judged at the International Criminal Court - Universal petition

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Israël doit être jugé par la Cour pénale internationale - Pétition universelle

Israel debe ser juzgado por la Corte Penal Internacional - Petición universal

Israel must be judged at the International Criminal Court - Universal petition

Israel muß vor dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof verurteilt werden-universale Petition

Israel deve ser julgado pelo Tribunal Penal Internacional - Petição universal

Israele deve essere giudicato dalla CPI - Petizione universale

Israel ha de ser jutjat per la Cort Penal Internacional - Petició universal

تعين أن تحاكم اسرائيل في المحكمة الجنائية الدولية – عريضة عالمية

Israel måste dömas av den internationella brottsmålsdomstolen-Universell namninsamling

اسراییل باید در دادگاه جنایی بین‌المللی محاکمه شود

Το Ισραήλ πρέπει να δικαστεί από το Διεθνές Ποίνικό Δικαστήριο - Παγκόσμια αίτηση

Israelul trebuie să fie judecat de către Curtea Penală Internațională - Petiție universală/

ИЗРАИЛЬ ДОЛЖЕН БЫТЬ СУДИМ МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫМ УГОЛОВНЫМ СУДОМ

עצומה אוניברסלית: על ישראל להישפט בפני בית המשפט הדין הבינלאומי

Israël moet berecht worden voor het Internationaal Strafhof - Universele petitie

Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesinde İsrail yargılanmalıdır- Evrensel İmza Kampanyası