Palestinian Red Crescent Society Set to host BDS
conference
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Red Crescent ambulances near the Rafah border crossing
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Palestinian Media Watch reveals that, in direct breach of
its commitments, the Palestinian Red Crescent
Society (PRCS), which is a member of the International Federation of
the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), is set to host a conference
sponsored by the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement on Saturday.
In a notice posted on its Facebook page, the BDS movement
announced that it will hold its biannual conference on March 16 on the premises
of the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Posted text: “Under the auspices of the Palestinian
people, the Palestinian National Boycott Movement invites you to participate in
the Sixth National Conference of the Movement to Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) Israel, under the title
‘Another boycott and struggle against normalization in order to resist the
colonialist and racist Israeli regime and to isolate it.’ This is on Saturday,
March 16, 2019, from 10:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., at the Congress Hall in the
Palestinian Red Crescent [Building] in El-Bireh.” [Facebook page of BDS
Arabic, March 10, 2019]
The PRCS is a member of the International Federation of
the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) associated with the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Maurice Hirsch, head of legal strategies at PMW explains:
In order for the PRCS to join the IFRC, it had to commit to upholding seven
fundamental principles set down by the latter, which mirror the same fundamental
principles set down by the ICRC.”
In particular, the PRCS would have had to commit to
upholding the principle of Neutrality, which requires that “in order to
continue to enjoy the confidence of all, the Movement may not take sides in
hostilities or engage at any time in controversies of a political, racial,
religious or ideological nature.”
Hirsch continued: “Needless to say, the use of the
facilities of the PRCS to host a BDS conference named “Another boycott and
struggle against normalization in order to resist the colonialist and racist
Israeli regime and to isolate it,” is a direct breach of the principle of
neutrality, and should be condemned in the strongest form.”
Unfortunately, the politicization of the PRCS is not new.
Palestinian
Media Watch reported that the organization cancelled its 50th-year
anniversary in December last year to honor three terrorists: “Out of respect
for the blood of the martyrs (shahids) who ascended to Heaven recently
after being shot by the Israeli occupation … ”
Just prior to the cancellation, two terrorist murderers
were shot and killed when they opened fire on Israeli forces who came to arrest
them. Saleh Omar Saleh Barghouti murdered a baby who died as a result of his
shooting attack in which he wounded seven Israelis, including the pregnant
mother who was carrying the baby. Ashraf Walid Suleiman Na’alwa shot and
murdered two of his Israeli coworkers earlier that year. A third terrorist,
Majdi Mteir, was shot and killed while carrying out a stabbing attack just
prior to the PRCS’s cancellation.
It is these three terrorists the Palestinian Red Crescent
referred to as shahids.
The willingness of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society
to allow the BDS movement to use its premises and its contemptuous opinion that
terrorist murderers are “Martyrs” who died for Allah clearly shows that this
organization has no respect for the fundamental principles set down by the IFRC
and the ICRC.
Hirsch concludes: “Palestinian Media Watch calls on the
IFRC and the ICRC to act immediately and to do all that is in its power to
prevent this anti-Israel BDS event, which is scheduled to take place on
Saturday, on the premises of the PRCS.
Should the PRCS hold the event, in breach of the
fundamental principles in general and in breach of the principle of neutrality
specifically, PMW calls on the IFRC and ICRC to re-evaluate PRCS’ status as a
member of the Federation.”
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