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Victory! Release of Jamal Juma’ and Mohammad Othman demonstrates importance of international grassroots pressure
You have probably heard by now that Jamal Juma’ and Mohammad Othman, leaders of the Palestinian grassroots struggle against Israeli occupation and apartheid and proponents of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS), have been released from their imprisonment-without-charge in Israeli jail. Their freedom is a huge victory for the grassroots struggle for Palestinian self-determination and equality. […]
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The Sixth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week 2010
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.4464903&w=425&h=350&fv=config%3D%7B] more about "The Sixth Annual Israeli Apartheid We…", posted with vodpod Israeli Apartheid Week 2010 Poster Competition We are proud to announce the first international Israeli Apartheid Week poster competition. First launched in Toronto in 2005, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) has grown to become one of the most important global events in the […]
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For Israel, a reckoning
John Pilger Published 14 January 2010 A new global movement is challenging Israel’s violations of international law with the same strategies that were used against apartheid The farce of the climate summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never […]
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Ali Abunimah puts Noam Chomsky in his place on BDS
This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we”ll have a conversation with Ali Abu Nimah, co-Founder of Electronic Intifada and activist and Middle East expert Jeff Blankfort, in which they each comment on an interview Voices of the Middle East and North Africa first taped and aired last month with Professor […]
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Lessons from the Gaza Freedom March
by Joshua Brollier When I traveled to Cairo to participate in the Gaza Freedom March, I hoped to enter Gaza to contribute toward ending the siege and preventing future air assaults and invasions, such as the 22-day Operation Cast Lead that Israel launched against Gaza at the close of 2008. I was also keenly looking […]
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Press Statement By The South African Palestine Solidarity Movement and COSATU
STATEMENT BY SA PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT AND COSATU 7 January, 2010 PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED JOINTLY BY THE South African Palestine Solidarity Movement and COSATU We salute the gallant and heroic actions of over 1,400 people from around the world – especially the South African delegation – who went to Cairo to embark on the historic […]
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Palestinian resistance and international solidarity: the BDS campaign
Click here to download ABIGAIL B. BAKAN and YASMEEN ABU-LABAN’s article in Race & Class.
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South African Transport Workers’ Union international secretary calls for isolation of Israel
transcript Zico Tamela (at demo in front of UN in Cairo, Monday 28th Jan) ——— “I always say, remember in South Africa we also fought for the isolation of the racist labour movement from the international labour movement. So what is the difference now? It’s not a question of fighting Jewish workers, no, no, it’s […]
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Richard Falk Interview on Radio Intifada
RADIO INTIFADA intifada=shaking off – oppression/silence brought to you by SWANA, the South/West Asia and Northern Africa Collective follow us on twitter: @radiointifada ONE HOUR SPECIAL on GAZA/Freedom March Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:00 -3pm PST KPFK 90.7fm Los Angeles, 98.7 Santa Barbara and streaming live at www.kpfk.org The SWANA team that brought you ongoing […]
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End Israeli Apartheid: The Cairo Declaration
The Gaza Freedom March has come to an end, but before the protesters dispersed they agreed on the following statement: January 1, 2010 We, international delegates meeting in Cairo during the Gaza Freedom March 2009 in collective response to an initiative from the South African delegation, state: In view of: o Israel”s ongoing collective punishment […]
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