With settlement construction freeze possibly ending soon, protesters will hold a vigil reasserting their continued objection to Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and will call on other Palestinians to not economically cooperate with these settlements.
The Rami Levy supermarket chain has several stores in settlements throughout the West Bank, and carries many settlement products. The chain is popular among some Palestinian shoppers, attracting its clientele through cheap pricing.
The protesters will call on Palestinians to avoid supporting the Occupation and settlements’ economy by boycotting Israeli goods and settlement stores. Demonstrators will also remind Palestinians that Rami Levy, the owner of the supermarket chain, is a member of the Jerusalem municipality, and as such is directly complicit in Jerusalem house demolitions and city-sponsored settler takeovers of Palestinian homes.
Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee and one of the protest’s organizers, said today that, “The Palestinian market is one of the main export markets for Israel. It is absurd for us to support our own repression in this way, especially when viable alternatives exist. Every Shekel to Rami Levy is a Shekel to the continuation of the Occupation. This must stop.”
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