A-Infos (en) Israel-Palestine, Call for action: "Freedom Ride" Against Apartheid Travel Ban by AATW

Next Friday, January 19th Palestinian, Israeli, and International 
activists will form a caravan of cars against the Apartheid decree 
prohibiting Israelis and foreign nationals from driving Palestinians 
inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories.  Next Friday, January 19th 
Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists will form a caravan of 
cars against the Apartheid decree prohibiting Israelis and foreign 
nationals from driving Palestinians inside the Occupied Palestinian 
Territories. Inspired by the freedom rides of the early 1960s which 
helped end Segregation in the American South, Israelis and 
Internationals will transport Palestinians in their cars on a 
settler-only road, risking arrest and punishment in defiance of this 
racist law. On November 19th, the Commanding General at Israeli army 
Central-Region command, Ya'ir Naveh, issued an unprecedented decree 
forbidding Israelis from driving Palestinians in the West Bank. The 
decree implements the Israeli policy of racial separation in the boldest 
possible manner. For the first time ever, it imposes legal penalties on 
members of different nations meeting each other in the private realm.

The decree is the peak of targeted and deliberate institutional 
discrimination that was designed to strengthen the rule of one national 
grouping over another - the precise legal definition of the crime of 
Apartheid.

But the burden is even heavier, as even during the Apartheid regime in 
South Africa, no such ban was implemented.

This coming Friday, January 19th, on the day this racist decree comes 
into force, a group of activists including the newly founded Coalition 
to End the Occupation and the Popular Committees Against the Wall and 
Settlements in the Ramallah region, will join together in a caravan of 
cars to cry out: "We will not participate in Israel's Apartheid regime 
in the Occupied Palestinian Territories!"

International and Israeli activists will gather at the El-Al terminal at 
the Northern railway station in Tel Aviv and leave in a caravan of 
vehicles, gathering Palestinians from the Ramallah area and driving them 
to the weekly demonstration in Bil'in.

The Popular Committees Against the Wall and the Settlements, Gush 
Shalom, Ta'ayush, The International Solidarity Movement, Sons of 
Abraham, Olive Tree Movement, Balad, Anarchists Against the Wall, Yesh 
Din, Yesh Gvul, Coalition of Women for Peace, and others.

For more info contact:
Jonathan Pollack - +972-54-632-7736
ISM Media Office - +972-2-297-1824, +972-59-994-3157

http://www.awalls.org
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