Petition updateBon Jovi, Boycott IsraelBon Jovi, Israel impoverishes indigenous Palestinians under the pretext of “encroachment on nature".
PACBI The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of IsraelRamallah, Palestinian Territories
Sep 17, 2015
Because Jon Bon Jovi's Soul Foundation focuses on “combating issues that force families and individuals into economic despair”. our campaign focuses on highlighting the economic aspects of Israel's apartheid regime. For example, just yesterday Israeli authorities ordered two Palestinians to leave their land within 48 hours, near the Salfit district of the occupied West Bank. The 26 dunams of land -- about six acres -- belongs to Omar Rashi Rayyan and Sabir Mustafa Mereiy, who found the notices hanging in their property in the Beir Abu Ammar area, north of Qarawat Bani Hasan village, in the Salfit district. Assi said that Rayyan and Mereiy were ordered to uproot over 100 olive trees in the past, under the pretext that the trees were an “encroachment on nature." Israeli authorities frequently confiscate private land from Palestinians living under military occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which is often used for the expansion of settlements, nature reserves, or military training grounds. Earlier this month the UN reported that some 13,000 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank are currently under Israeli demolition orders, leaving residents and homes "in a state of chronic uncertainty and threat." We hope to illustrate to Jon and the rest of the band, the economic policies which their concert will serve to whitewash, so that they may reconsider this performance- in light of Palestinian civil society call for international solidarity- to boycott Israel. We also hope to encourage you to sign and share the petition with your family, friends, and networks.
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