IPSC Statement in Solidarity with the London 'Ahava 4'

international | rights, freedoms and repression | press release Monday August 09, 2010 20:21 by IPSC - IPSC

Subject: IPSC Statement in Solidarity with the 'Ahava 4'

Date: Monday 9th August 2010

To: The 'Ahava 4', London

Dear colleagues,

I am writing on behalf of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) to express our support for you as you face trial on ridiculous charges of “aggravated trespass” for blockading a London-based Ahava store. You should be commended, not criminalised, for your attempts to prevent the sale of these illegal products of Israeli apartheid and colonialism.

The allegations are patently absurd, but they are also very grave. As with the recent cases of the "Scottish PSC 5" and the "EDO 7", this is another appalling attempt to criminalise one of the most effective tools at the disposal of international Palestine solidarity activists, namely the Boycott Campaign.

We wish you all the best in the trial, and we await what - as with the SPSC 5 and EDO 7 - can only be the dismissal of these ludicrous charges.

You have our full support.

In Solidarity

Freda Hughes
National Chairperson
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign

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For more info on the court case and Ahava in general please see:

http://freepalestinefortnightlydemo.wordpress.com/

http://www.stolenbeauty.org/