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<h1 class="reader-title">Hewlett Packard To Lose Millions as
India's Student Federation Endorses Pro-Palestinian BDS<br>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time">June 13, 2018<br>
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<p>The Student Federation of India (SFI),
a four-million-strong national organization, joined the
global campaign to boycott Hewlett Packard over its
record of complicity in Israel's violation of human
rights against Palestinians. </p>
<p>Apoorva Gautam, coordinator for the Palestinian
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National
Committee for South Asia, announced the SFI joined the
campaign on June 9, and explained "this means that
Hewlett Packard companies now risk losing over 4 million
potential clients in India because of their complicity
in Israel’s gross violations of Palestinian human
rights." </p>
<p>HP has provided technology to support Israel's military
occupation and racial profiling by providing the Israeli
government with the servers for the country's population
registry used in military checkpoints and for the ID
card system that underpins movement restrictions for
Palestinians.</p>
<p>According to the BDS movement, HP also provides the
Israeli navy with the necessary technology to impose the
over-a-decade-long blockade of Gaza. </p>
<p>United States-based churches have previously divested
from HP. In 2012 the Friends Fiduciary Corporation, the
investment firm serving over 300 Quaker institutions
divested. In 2014 the U.S. Presbyterian Church voted to
divest from HP, and a year later the United Church of
Christ did the same.</p>
<p>The SFI resolution condemned Israel’s use of lethal
force against Palestinians participating in the <a
href="https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Gaza-United-Nations-Votes-to-Launch-War-Crimes-Investigation-Into-Israeli-Armys-Use-of-Force-20180518-0006.html">Great
March of Return</a> in Gaza, which resulted in over
120 deaths and 13,000 injuries. It also criticized the
Indian government for its “close security and military
ties with Israel [becoming] the largest arms buyer from
Israel.”</p>
<p>Gautam celebrated the decision by the SFI, saying "what
Palestinians and Indian students are showing is that
companies seeking to profit from Israel’s military
occupation and discriminatory regime face growing
popular opposition and risk a serious hit to both their
reputations and pocket-books."</p>
<p>The Israeli occupation has faced increasing
international pressure due to the BDS movement. In a
span of less than a month Shakira canceled her concert
in Tel Aviv, Argentina canceled the friendly soccer
match with Israel, and many well-known and international
artists and filmmakers pulled out of <a
href="https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Filmmakers-Boycott-Tel-Aviv-LGBT-Film-Festival-Over-Pinkwashing-20180602-0007.html">Tel
Aviv’s LGBT film festival</a> and Paris’ France-Israel
Season.</p>
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