Procès d’Olivia Zémor le 17 juin à Paris

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English text : (translated by Jonathan Daitch)

Dear Friends,

I have been summoned to appear alone before the Paris tribunal (17th Chambre Correctionnelle of the Palais de Justice of Paris) on Friday 17 June for having published, on our website, a video of a BDS action at the Carrefour supermarket in Evry (near Paris), organized by a dozen associations and parties, as you can see in this video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWFl...

We showed our solidarity in publishing this action on our website in July 2009, even though we did not participate ourselves, because the action took place at the same time as the Librairie Résistances was sacked by the LDJ. (Kahana movement not forbidden in France !)

The plaintiffs (usual Israeli supporters, and the government are accusing me of “the misdemeanor of provoking discrimination, hate and violence towards a group of persons for reasons of their belonging to the Israeli nation.”

As we know, only the boycott of Israel constitutes discrimination against a nation. The French government does not ask judges to condemn those who call for boycotts of Mexico, China, Syria...

Moreover, the court has given our lawyers to believe that the QPC (Question of Constitutional Priority) may not be accepted during this hearing.

So be it ! We are prepared to defend ourselves and we have many things to say and to show. Three lawyers from the Paris bar will assure my defense. A number of personalities, such as Hugo Meyer, 86 and an Auschwitz survivor, are also coming to testify against the odious charge of anti-Semitism and the French government’s encouragement of Israeli occupation and colonization.

If the principal organizers of the BDS action at Evry have not wished to implicate themselves, we thank the representatives of the IJAN, Génération Palestine, the NPA and the Comité Montreuil Palestine, who, on the other hand, have accepted to come and testify and to lay claim to their actions.

Your presence at my side is very important to show that neither I nor our association CAPJPO-EuroPalestine can be isolated, and that we can not be prevented from fully playing our role in the international Boycott, Disinvestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the Israeli occupyer.

I invite those who can free themselves to come and observe the proceedings. The appointment is on Friday 17 June at 1 pm at the 17ème Chambre correctionnelle, 1st floor of the Palais de Justice de Paris. (Metro Cité, Chatelet or St Michel).

Yours,

Olivia Zémor

President of CAPJPO-EuroPalestine