WILL YOUR EUROPEAN CANDIDATES STAND WITH PALESTINE?
Will they stand for international law ?
Vote for Palestine!
Between June 6 and 9, EU citizens will vote for their new representatives at the European Parliament. A total of 720 MEPs will be elected to the European Parliament, to serve for the next five years. Find out your European candidates’ views on EU-Israel relations before the European Elections! Vote for Palestine!
Ask your candidates to show they’ve listened to the millions of EU citizens – people like you – who want the EU to adhere to international law and finally end its complicity with Israel’s crimes. By making the Vote for Palestine pledge, they will be promising to promote key commitments for Palestinian rights in the next legislative cycle.
Ask your candidate to make the pledge for Palestine. #VoteforPalestine
PLEDGE TEXT
” As part of my commitments for the human rights, and for a just and lasting peace based on international law, I pledge, if elected to be a Member of the European Parliament, to:
- demand a final and complete end to the current war and siege against the population of the Gaza Strip, the withdrawal of the Israeli forces and the start of reconstruction; oppose any forcible displacement of the Palestinian population;
- call for the end of the occupation and colonisation of the occupied Palestinian territory by the State of Israel;
- support and call for an end to EU trade with Israel’s illegal settlements in Palestine;
- call for the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in light of Israel’s violation of Article 2 for its war in Gaza, as well as the suspension of any trade of military equipment and of any military cooperation with Israel, as long as Israel violates human rights and international law;
- work towards the enforcement of the rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of self-determination, and all UN resolutions;
- work for EU compliance with the principle of non-recognition of Israel’s illegal annexation of occupied East Jerusalem, and the prevention of forced displacement of Palestinians
- support freedom of expression, and oppose any conflation of criticism of the policies of the State of Israel with antisemitism; protect the digital rights of the Palestinians;
- support funding for UNRWA and reject attempts to impose specific conditional funding on Palestinian civil society;
- work towards ending Israel’s impunity; support the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice”
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