OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– A Palestinian youth group called “Moving for the Sake of Palestine” launched a boycott campaign against the American Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) for its support of the Israeli occupation.
The group activists distributed on Saturday morning brochures for the campaign in Occupied Jerusalem. The campaign is launched under the theme “Israel sponsored by HP”.
The brochures explained the American company’s offensive practices against the Palestinian people’s right of movement inside homeland.
One of the activists elaborated in a press statement that the campaign aims at boycotting HP Company because it provides the Israeli occupation with monitoring systems used at the military checkpoints blocking the traffic of Palestinians in the West Bank Jerusalem 1948 Occupied Palestine and Gaza Strip.
It also aims at increasing the awareness of the Palestinian university students about the role of HP Company in this regard. It also targets the Palestinian official institutions by trying to convince them to boycott the company’s products and exclude it from public bids and tenders he said.
The independent Palestinian youth group “Moving for the Sake of Palestine” was established in 2014 within a program called “Youth for Change” in partnership with the American Friends Service Committee (Quaker) in Gaza along with other local organizations.