WHY BOYCOTT ISRAELI GOODS?

RAINBOW BIG (Boycott Israeli Goods) is a group of shoppers and worker-owners at Rainbow Grocery organized to encourage the store to remove Israeli products from its shelves. RBIG is part of a mounting international campaign to pressure Israel to end its brutal occupation of the Palestinian territories and its racist system of discrimination against its own non-Jewish citizens. The following are among the most oppressive features of the occupation and apartheid system:

* Expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians from their homeland and creation of an exclusionary Jewish State

* Israeli West Bank settlements populated by over 400,000 Jewish

colonists built on Palestinian land, in violation of U.N. Security

Council Resolution 465

* A 25-foot-high concrete separation wall reaching far into Palestinian territory to incorporate the settlements into greater Israel, ruled a

violation of international law by the International Court of Justice

* A massive highway network, restricted to Jewish travelers only, which connects the settlements with Israel proper. This network, along with the settlements and the separation wall, fragments the West Bank into economically unsustainable areas similar to bantustans of the apartheid era in South Africa.

* Israeli control of water resources meagerly distributed to Palestinians(e.g. in the city of Hebron, 400 Jewish settlers get 85% of the water and 15% goes to 120,000 Palestinians)

* 12,000 Palestinian homes demolished; over 500,000 olive and fruit trees uprooted to make way for the separation wall

* Imprisonment of 10,000 Palestinians, many indefinitely and without

trial, in violation of the Geneva Convention