[09/10/25 IG Repost]
🚨📲 SMASH THE MATCH WEEK 10📲🚨
[INSTRUCTIONS ON SLIDES 4!]
http://actionnetwork.org/letters/when-will-aichi-respect-human-rights-6
(Updated template ∆)
Apologies for being a day late! Next week we are back to our regularly scheduled Wednesday pickets, with a new target in the works…
With over 2,000 e-mails sent and hundreds of comments posted on Aichi-related pages, the recent disruption and takeover of the Aichi Triennale, & the RESIGNATION of the corporate liaison connected to the Aichi-Israel Matching Program from the Triennale Committee, the SMASHTHEMATCH campaign just keeps going!!
Now in our 10th week, we need to keep the pressure on. The Nagoya Mothers for Palestinian Children handed in their petition on 17/09, but the only thing that will get it heard sooner is making it a BIG international issue that the governor of Aichi (Omura) will ultimately prioritise as it becomes an unavoidable issue. He is now on the list of people you e-mail when you send the petition, as well as the Obayashi Corporation, the main sponsor of the Aichi Triennale. They are complicit in both the occupation of Okinawa through its construction of the Henoko base, AND a BDS violator for employing Innoviz laser technology in doing so from the Zionist Entity!
So we ask our global community to KEEP SENDING E-MAILS this week, EVEN IF YOU DID IT BEFORE! Log out & back in, or use another e-mail address to LET THEM KNOW what we think about hosting this ‘peaceful’ sporting event in a prefecture complicit in genocide!
DO NOT think your comments and emails are meaningless. We consistently hear back from our comrades in Japan that it 1) boosts local organisers’ confidence, 2) creates a headache and pressure on Aichi officials who care a lot about their int’l ‘image’, and 3) creates the ‘chatter’ that gets reporters and human rights orgs interested in the deep-investigative work we need to PROVE the despicable genocidal links in the global supply chain locally in Aichi.
The four main demands of SMASHTHEMATCH continue to be:
A full report on historical details of the Matching Program
The IMMEDIATE end of the Matching Program + written confirmation
A formal apology to the community for the harms caused by this program
A written commitment to NEVER engage in any future partnerships with ‘Israeli’ companies
Slide 1: CANCEL the Aichi-Israel Matching Program!
Weekly Phone & Inbox Blockade
#SMASHTHEMATCH!
A smart phone which has two notifications. The first reads: 愛知はジェノサイドへの加担をやめろ！The second: Sheikh Freih Abu Meddien (Palestine flag emoji) “The Naqab is free of the Zionist blight, and we’ve returned to the lands of our ancestors. God is great.”
Slide 2: WHAT IS IT?
Since 2022, the Aichi Prefectural Government in Japan has partnered with the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) & Startup Nation Central (SNC) to promote collaborations between ‘Israeli’ startups and companies in Aichi.
Despite 22+ months of non-stop genocidal war crimes and calls by the local community to cancel this program, this collaboration is belligerently pushing forward to “integrate Israeli cutting-edge technology” into Japan’s manufacturing region.
Claiming to promote “Climate, Agri-Food, and Health Tech”, in reality, this “innovation” alliance is in lock-step with Japan’s rapid re-militarization. This program is a deadly fusion of Israel’s immoral, genocidal tech industry with some of the most advanced manufacturers in the world, many of which have barely washed their hands of the bloody profits of Japan’s own imperialist wars.
Slide 3: WHAT’S NEXT?
We have sent a combined total of 2,047 e-mails and hundreds of Instagram comments to Aichi prefecture, Triennale, and Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games–and we don’t plan on stopping!
This past week Aichi activists demonstrated in front of Aichi Prefectural offices in Nagoya denouncing the Matching Program. Assembly members have been contacted directly to demand support of Mother’s Group petition!
Aichi is one of only 3 sites in the world where F-35 warplanes are completed! SHAME! Next week we support BDS National Global Week of Action to GROUND THE F-35!
For our 10th global day of action we continue to email blast Aichi stakeholders!
Please see slide 4 for instructions!
[A picture of activists standing in front of Aichi prefecture with a banner & an image of an F-35 on top]
Slide 4: This week, we call on our global community to keep flooding e-mails as we have updated our petition with new targets! Follow this QR code to send more e-mails now, even if you already did so before! (Log out & back in if necessary)
Don’t worry, it’s really easy to do & all privacy setting are on, so they will only see your name. We want to flood their inboxes this week, so please do it and send to a friend!
[image of a QR code with a red arrow]
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/when-will-aichi-respect-human-rights-6
Screenshots of the petition
Slide 5: THEMES
Japanese companies/gov’t care a lot about their international image. It’s important that we show them that the world is watching–and that we won’t accept quiet evasions!
tinyurl.com/CancelAichiTemplates
Points to cover:
- No sports-, art-, or eco-washing genocide, Okinawa occupation & militarization!
- Demand that the Aichi-Israel Matching Program be cancelled immediately
- Disappointment at the violation of human rights & international law
- Cancelling future plans to travel to Aichi/Japan because of this partnership
- Commitment to spread the boycott amongst the Japanese diaspora
- Demand transparency around why past petition of 20,000+ signatures was ignored
Slide 6: For more information about ‘Cancel Aichi-Israel Matching Program’, see the link in our bio or visit
- tinyurl.com/CancelAichiMatching
- @think4olive
- @bdsjapanbulletin
- @takeshi_evolstak
We won’t stop until our four key demands are met:
- A full report on historical details of the Matching Program
- The IMMEDIATE end of the Matching Program + written confirmation
- A written commitment to NEVER engage in any future partnerships with ‘Israeli’ companies
- An apology to the community
FREE PALESTINE/パレスチナ解放!!!