O fam Belgium and
Don't like the swastika in Oxfam? See the image below, from Oxfam Solidarity's friends at inminds.co.uk

The boycott of Israeli goods produced in the Occupied Territories: a boycott for peace 
The position of Oxfam-Solidarity

Together with 15 Belgian NGOs, Oxfam-Solidarity calls for boycotting Israeli goods produced in the Occupied Territories.

...Our aim is to express our opposition to the policy of Israeli Government towards the Palestinians which upholds occupation of their territory and includes acts of grave violence, which we believe is the main cause for the continuing conflict.

We have consistently condemned and called for an end to Palestinian suicide bombings and other acts of terror which violate the 4th protocole of the Geneva Convention. [This is lip service. Oxfam Solidarity does not call for a boycott of the Palestinian Authority despite ongoing acts of violence by Palestinian terrorists.]

The APP regrets the daily violence of this conflict and condemns the killing of innocent citizen victims on both sides. As for the APP, this violent conflict is caused by the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. And a solution can only be reached if and when this occupation has come to an end. Therefore, the APP sides resolutely with the Palestinian people and the Israeli peace organisations.

Belgium is responsible to ensure that the EU
a. increases the pressure on Israel 
b. relies on this international law when taking any diplomatic initiative

Nothing here about pressuring the Palestinians to stop blowing up Seders, buses, schools, dance halls, stores, and so on...

a. An immediate and unconditional suspension of the geographical and demographic elaboration of the Jewish settlements and by-pass roads on the West Bank (including Eastern Jerusalem) and Gaza. The dismantlement should be negotiated
b. Lift of the blockades on Palestinian villages, cities and territories.
c. Suspension of the military aggression towards and executions of Palestinians
d. Implementation of the agreements of Taba (Oslo II) relating to the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian authorities
e. Suspension of all violations of human rights

• "Unconditional?" They mean that it's not conditional on the Palestinians ceasing to blow up Seders, buses, schools, dance halls, stores, and so on?
• "Lift the blockades?" In other words, Israel should allow the free passage of murderers and terrorists?
• "Suspension of military aggression toward and execution of Palestinians." Israel should not defend itself against people who blow up Seders, buses, schools, dance halls, stores, and so on. Israel has no death penalty and Israel has never held a capital court-martial of any captured terrorist.
• Masquerading as civilians makes terrorists spies under international law even if they do nothing else, and they can be executed for this alone. Intentional murder of Israeli civilians is a capital war crime, and murder is also a capital civilian crime in many U.S. jurisdictions. Omdurman.org's position is that terrorists should be tried by capital court martial and executed upon conviction for masquerading as civilians and/or attacking Israeli civilians.
  
• "Suspension of all violation of human rights," except apparently for the right of Israeli men, women, and children to be secure against being murdered in their own homes or in public places.

Steps to be taken immediately and certainly by the Belgian government and the European Union:

a. Suspension of the Association agreement between the EU and Israel that accords trade benefits to the import of Israeli products. The association-agreement itself stipulates after all that its implementation is linked to the respect to human rights and the democratic principles (article 2) and that no products from Jewish settlements are to be imported (article 83). Both stipulations are not respected by Israel.
b. * A formal ban on the export of arms:
- from Belgium to Israel, in application of article 4 of the Belgian law.
- from the EU to Israël, in application of several criteria of the European Code of Conduct
* A formal ban on the import of arms from Israel to Belgium and the European Union, including the suspension or destruction of still running or already closed contracts.
c. Within the UN a continued urge to establish a UN-protection force that positions itself along the green demarcation line of 1949.
d. A call upon the Israeli government to account for the violations of the human rights and the use of excessive violence towards the Palestinian people

4. The final goal of the negotiations should be:

a. The total withdrawal of the Israeli army from all occupied territories (West Bank, Gaza and Eastern Jerusalem)
b. The evacuation and dismantlement of the Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, and the compensation of the damage Palestinians suffered due to the occupier and the colonists
c. The installation of a sovereign and democratic Palestinian state that is politically and economically liveable
d. Equal rights for the others on each other's territory. For Israel this means the equal treatment of the own Palestinian citizens, which comes down to abolishing discriminating laws and customs, returning stolen land and so on.
e. The claim of return and/or compensation of Palestinian refugees
f. A fair regulation

What is Actieplateform Palestina (Action Platform Palestine)?

The visit was organized by Holland’s Palestine Solidarity Group – “Stop the Occupation”, of which Gretta Druisenberg is Chair. Other organizations involved in the visit were Medical Aid for the Third World; Doctors for Peace (Flemish Division of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War); the Flemish Action Platform Palestine and CODIP (Center for the Development, Documentation and Information Palestinians).

"The Israeli occupation was worse than Nazi Germany's occupation of the Netherlands, Greta was quoted by a Dutch newspaper as saying."

The fact that she is still breathing after making this remark in the "occupied territories" proves that she is a liar. Anyone who criticized genuine Nazis in occupied Holland found themselves on a one-way trip to an "arbeit macht frei" camp.

Meanwhile, Wafa’ Bobnad, Chairwoman of the sponsor committee of Arab Women festival, scheduled on March 6 through 9, told IslamOnline that the festival would lionize Greta in the closing ceremony.

"This praise comes in appreciation from the Arab and Muslim community for her pains-taking efforts, which serve best the Palestinian cause, and to assert that all Arab and Muslim women in the Netherlands are rallying behind her in her uphill struggle against the brutal campaigns launched by the Zionists and their followers," Bobnad said.

In April 2002 , Duisenberg hung a Palestinian flag from the balcony of her house in Amsterdam.

Boycott Israel News-- that's boycott Israel, not the occupied territories-- praises Greta Duisenberg at http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-news-0181.html

Organizers said hanging the Palestinian flags was also an act of solidarity with Greta Duisenberg, wife of the European Central Bank CEO, who has been recently sued for insisting on hanging the Palestinian flag outside the balcony of her home in an upper class neighborhood in Amsterdam.

Duisenberg took part in a demonstration April 13 in solidarity with the Palestinian Intifada. She decided to keep the Palestinian flag outside her home balcony as an expression of her sympathy with the Palestinian resistance and their legitimate right to an independent state, and her rejection of the Isr**li aggressions against the Palestinian people.

Note that this organization won't spell out the word "Israel," perhaps because it doesn't recognize Israel's right to exist. I thought it was a misprint but see two more examples below:

She is unhappy with the way Holland and Europe have been dealing with hardline Isr**li Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government’s actions in Palestinian cities during the last few weeks, she said, adding that she insists on her position.

“I am an independent thinking woman and responsible for my actions. Both my husband and I own this house which means I can practice my beliefs here,” she said.

Dutch papers have recently attacked Muslim protestors who burnt the Isr**li flag in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that were held in the Dutch capital during the month of April. They saw these demonstrations as an indication of the end of the Jewish control over the city and the start of a new era in which Muslims are in control.

The mayor of Amsterdam, Cohen, of Jewish origins, appeared in the Dutch media angry at the burning of the Isr**li flag in his city, which is the first time this has taken place ever since Isr**l came into existence in 1947.

Despite their being a minority, Jews exercise a lot of political and economic influence in the Netherland. They also control the media. The Dutch authorities have always appointed a Jewish mayor for the city in recognition of the role that was played by the Jews in the flourishing of the city. They arrived as refugees with the start of Inquisition, following the fall of Muslim Spain (Al-Andalus) in the fifteenth century.

The recent events in Palestine and the second Intifada against Isr**li occupation have pushed the Muslim minority in the city to surmount their differences and to unite in huge demonstrations which many felt threatened the “Jewish indentity” of the city.

A dagger through the Star of David: how quaint. Note that the demonstration is against Israel, not the "occupation." Nice company that Oxfam Belgium keeps, isn't it? They also sell a book that apparently praises mass murderer Ayatollah Khomeini, who held American citizens hostage during 1979.

The one on the right is also from Greta Duisenberg's and Oxfam Solidarity's friends. Title: The Vampires of the West and East all feeding on the Muslim Ummah. Note how the Great Satan is in the front (I bet these guys are unhappy that Flight 93 didn't make it to that dome on September 11, 2001) and the Lesser Satan is in the background.

Palestinian supporters' recommendation for a Sirhan-Sirhan-style "regime change" in the United States. http://www.inminds.co.uk/ home page.  Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, is a Palestinian. The word "assassin" itself (Hashisheen, hashish-user) also is Arabic in origin. http://www.inminds.co.uk displays this image in a manner that suggests approval, not condemnation, of a terroristic threat against the President of the United States. It presents this image on its home page among other pro-Palestinian images; that is, the context is one of approval as opposed to condemnation. Note the nearby "Freedom for Palestine" sign and remember Aesop's fable. "Birds of a feather flock together."

Don't like "O xfam Solidarity?" Re: inminds.com copyright. Again, this image (actually, half of the original) is displayed for the noncommercial and educational purpose of showing the positions that inminds.co.uk apparently endorses. In other words, I don't think they can use their copyright to prevent me from showing their denouncement of Israel as an "illegal fascist state," as well as their use of swastikas with regard to both Israel and the United States. Recall that the Violence Policy Center could apparently display entire gun magazine covers and firearm advertisements for similar purposes without being in violation of the copyright owners' rights. I am no friend of the VPC and I brought this to the attention of the copyright owners, but they apparently had no recourse against  the VPC's noncommercial and "educational" use of the material. In addition, the watermark "Illustration of material that promotes hatred of the U.S. and Israel" has been added to this image to prevent its use for any purpose other than the one I have described. The deleted portion of the image says, "Blair must go." I suppose these people don't like the fact that Blair supported the removal of Saddam Hussein. http://www.inminds.co.uk/palestine-rally-1-17may03.html

Oxfam-Solidarity Belgium calls upon the international community and the European Governments to take urgently the following steps:

...The strengthening of the political pressure on the Israeli government to enforce the various UN-resolutions (242,338,194 ): the immediate withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from all 1967 occupied Palestinian and Arab territories, the return of the Palestinian refugees and the establishment of a sovereign, independent Palestinian State in the 1967 occupied territories with Jerusalem as its capital.

The European Campaign:
A strategy workshop organized by Oxfam Solidarity/Belgium between March 29 and 1 April 1999 set the foundations for two Palestinian-European Campaigns, a
campaign for Palestinian Economic Development, and a Campaign for Palestinian Refugee Rights. Participants were Palestinian and European NGOs (BADIL Resource Center, Forum of Palestinian NGOs-Lebanon, PARC, Belgo-Palestinian Association, Flamish Palestine Committee, Oxfam Solidarity, UCL CERMAC, a.o.), representatives of the ECCP, Belgian parliamentarians and trade unionists, representatives of the European parliament and EU commissions, and PLO and Arab League representatives. The Campaign for Palestinian Refugee Rights will:
- Empower Palestinian refugee initiatives and NGOs;
- Advocate for the Palestinian right of return;
- Lobby for increased government support for UNRWA.

"There will be no peace in the Middle East without recognition of Palestinian refugees' right of return, because Palestinian refugees, i.e. two thirds of the Palestinian people, reject a solution of the Palestinian refugee question which does not meet the standards set by international law and UN Resolution 194."

"The delegation, composed of BADIL Program Coordinator Muhammad Jaradat and international refugee law expert Susan Akram, was hosted and assisted by Brussels-based Oxfam Solidarity, the European Coordinating Committee on Palestine (ECCP), and by the Palestine working groups in the Belgian and European parliament."

Oxfam Belgium is the partner of the AEL, who called up for the anti-Semitic demonstrations in Antwerp, where a puppet representing an orthodox Jew was burned in public.
Oxfam Belgium is part of the Flemish Palestine Platform that stated on the website: the bomb-attack are a fait divers.
Oxfam Belgium participates in a lie-campaign about Israel (several of their statements are wrong, such as: that 3.5 million were expulsed in 1948)
Oxfam has written an open letter to the Jewish community in Belgium to justify their boycott but also let them understand " that Israel is a country that is not worth to life neither to exist!

In the anti-Israel demonstration of June 8th in Antwerp (they call it a pro-palestinian demonstration...) to which OXFAM was a co-organisor, several masked demonstrators burned a puppet. We have now full confirmation that the puppet had black clothes, a kippa and was definitely designed to represent an orthodox jew and not Sharon neither Buish! [I think he means "Bush"] Your local delegates did not react in any way to that action and therefor we can only assume that they endorsed this very antisemitic and racist act in Antwerp!"

Traduction : Magasins du Monde - OXFAM ("Translation: Magazine of the World- OXFAM")

By boycotting US products, I want to put pressure on the US government to join the international community, complying with the rules of the United Nations and international law. With the military attack and invasion of Iraq in March 2003 the US acted as a rogue state. [These guys are calling our country, the most free democracy in the world, a "rogue state." What do they call the Butcher of Baghdad, an "enlightened humanitarian?"]

With the attack the US violated the UN charter. Today more than ever US companies seem to have a major impact on the policy of the US administration. The US government policy has increasingly been marked by arrogance and self-interest:

The unilateral policies of the US must stop now and all US troops must leave Iraq immediately. [Right, leave the place to Saddam's Fedayeen and death squad holdovers!]

Belgium
KP Kommunistische Partij [KP Communist Party]
Oxfam Wereldwinkel Gent Centrum
Oxfam Wereldwinkel Gent West
Oxfam Wereldwinkel Herzele

To:  information "at" oxfaminternational.org (Ian Anderson, head of Oxfam)
CC:  oxfam "at" oxfam.org.uk,  info "at" oxfamamerica.org,  information "at" wiesenthal.net,
 oxfamsol "at" oxfamsol.be
(wiesenthal.net is the Simon Wiesenthal Center)

Dear Mr. Ian Anderson,

I spoke with Oxfam USA today, and I understand clearly that Oxfam USA has nothing to do with Oxfam Belgium's anti-Israel boycott. I am sure the British group has nothing to do with it either. Nonetheless, your Belgian group has put the "Oxfam" label on this activity. Sometimes you have to amputate a diseased limb or excise a cancerous organ to save the rest of the body. Oxfam International has cancer and the tumor is Oxfam Belgium.

Oxfam International now (through no fault of its own) finds itself in the position of harboring a rogue organization for whose actions the entire Oxfam organization will be held accountable if you do not cut them loose. "Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists." Oxfam Belgium is with the terrorists and, if Oxfam International continues to allow Oxfam Belgium to use Oxfam's name, then Oxfam International is with the terrorists. Oxfam will lose all moral credibility and people around the world will rightly cut their financial support. If this were to happen, my advice to Oxfam America would be to wash its hands of the international organization and go its separate way.