Trying to block a trade deal between Israel, Mercosur

Trying to block a trade deal between Israel, Mercosur

Pro-Palestinian groups call boycott on Israel

Pro-Palestinians groups launched a call for a worldwide boycott of Israel (File)

Belem/BRAZIL (AFP)

Pro-Palestinian groups meeting at the World Social Forum that ended Sunday launched a call for a worldwide boycott of Israel and a day of action on March 30.

"This is not intended to be an anti-Semitic action. It's a call against the apartheid that Israel is practicing," said one of the organizers, Yuri Haas, an Israeli Jew.

The campaign was decided by several groups headed by the Palestine National Committee.

" This is not intended to be an anti-Semitic action. It's a call against the apartheid that Israel is practicing, " Yuri Haas, an Israeli Jew At the six-day forum in Belem, Brazil, t-shirts declaring "I am Palestinian" and Palestinian scarves were a common sight as participants showed their solidarity with the Palestinians following the conflict in the Gaza Strip. "Israel killed more than 1,330 and wounded 5,000 Palestinians in 22 days in Gaza," Haas said. The pro-Palestinian groups also launched a campaign to try to block a free-trade agreement between Israel and the Mercosur trading bloc comprising (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela). "We only need one president not to sign it" for it to be scrapped, Haas affirmed.

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