Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
on bds from korea
I heard about the BDS call at the time of ecumenical conference of the World Council of Churches in Amman, Jordan, although I understood the notion in the context of the WCC Program to Combat Racism. I understand it to be a resistance movement of the globally committed people against the Israeli Apartheid Regime in a wholistic way.
In Korea we are making a slow but significant progress, for our ecumenical community is fighting against the Christian Zionist political ideology, which is closely related to the U.S.-based Cold War regime, which divided our people for the last 75 years. This is closely related to Israeli Zionism. We are seeking to build a network of BDS on the linkage of the Korean Pilgrimage program with Israeli Zionism.
I believe that the colonial process, U.S.-led American geopolitical hegemony and economic globalization and technocratic and cultural hegemony must be dismantled with the spiritual resistance. I believe that the polity and power of liberal nation states, their international organizations have failed to foster the peoples’ free self-determination.
The spiritual convergence of creativity, both evolutionary and transformative, needs to be promoted. The spirituality of all faiths must seek to overcome theological, doctrinal, ecclesial and religious organizational divisions and boundaries for the sake of justice, peace and conviviality.
quote:
In Korea we are making a slow but significant progress, for our ecumenical community is fighting against the Christian Zionist political ideology, which is closely related to the U.S.-based Cold War regime, which divided our people for the last 75 years. This is closely related to Israeli Zionism. We are seeking to build a network of BDS on the linkage of the Korean Pilgrimage program with Israeli Zionism.
Korean civil society calls for end to military cooperation with Israel
The following statement was published by Korean civil society organization in 2014.
Korean civil society and popular movement organizations demand an immediate halt to all military transactions by the Korean government with Israel at a time of ongoing bombings and escalating casualties in Gaza.
Weapons exports data reported to UN Comtrade reveal that Korea has exported some $30 million worth of weapons to Israel in the last ten years, and imported around $40 million of Israeli weaponry over the same period.