US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation : Stop the Wall Resources

Stop the Wall Resources

At the 2nd Annual US Campaign Conference of Organizers, one priority we set was for an educational and mobilizing campaign to stop the contruction of and to tear down the Wall. To that effort, this section of the website is designed to support groups taking action against the Wall and to link to resources and tools for mobilization around the Wall.

FORCE ISRAEL TO TEAR DOWN THE WALL!

At the end of July 2003, the Israeli government misleadingly announced the completion of the “first phase”—145 km from some 600km—of the Wall that it began erecting inside the West Bank in June 2002. In fact, bulldozers continue to ravage the northern West Bank by building buffer zones and expanding sections of the Wall. The Wall—falsely declared a “security barrier” by the Israeli military—is the largest land grab since the Occupation began in 1967; when completed the Wall will de-facto annex nearly 50% of the West Bank by the Israeli government.

The Wall effectively annexes West Bank land on which Illegal Jewish-only settlements were built and confiscates prime resources, turning the West Bank into a series of cantons and enclaves in a bantustanization of the area. The Wall has already taken over the lands of dozens of Palestinian communities and stolen the livelihoods of thousands of families in the northern West Bank as well as in the Jerusalem and Bethlehem areas. The US Administration has yet to exert pressure on the Israeli government to stop building and start dismantling the Wall. It is up to US citizens to demand that the US Administration hold the Israeli Government accountable for international law, and to coordinate their actions to stop the Wall and promote freedom for the Palestinian people and peace and security for all.

STOPTHEWALL.ORG NOW ONLINE!

The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON) has been a prime mover behind the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign. Much of PENGON’s work and resources have been poured into the www.stopthewall.org site mentioned above. You can reach PENGON through that site or directly at outreach@pengon.org.