Protest HP's Plans to Build on Confiscated Palestinian Land

CFL ACTION ALERT: HP PLANS DIGITAL INK PLANT ON LAND CONFISCATED FROM
PALESTINIAN VILLAGE

A recent report from Reuters
(http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030115/tech_israel_hp_1.html) indicates that
US computer giant Hewlett Packard Co. plans to establish a digital ink
factory on land Israel confiscated from the Palestinian village of Iraq
al Manshiya. If HP goes through with their plans they will be an
American company who is actively participating in the violation of
international law by being complicit in the Israeli terror which drove
the Palestinians off of their land in 1948.


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TALKING POINTS:
*Tell your Representative that you expect them to do their job by
monitoring which US companies are violating international law and that
you expect your Representatives to meet with Hewlett Packard executives
immediately. Stress the fact that HP's proposed site is located on
land Israel confiscated from the Palestinian village of Iraq Al-
Manshiya.

*Israel forced out the original inhabitants of Iraq Al-Manshiya and the
nearby village of Al-Faluja after the 1948 war ended contrary to
international law and an armistice agreement sponsored by the UN and
which Israel signed.

*Hewlett Packard should not allow Israel to have economic benefits
from the illegal dispossession of Palestinians. Israel is denying
Palestinian refugees their right of return to their lands and homes
which it is still occupying despite over 60 UN Resolutions demanding
that they end their illegal occupation. The Palestinian right of return
is in UN resolutions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
International Law.

*Given Israel's apartheid policies, continuing abuses of fundamental
human rights, and violations of International Law, Hewlett Packard
should divest from Israel forthwith.

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