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Have You Heard from Johannesburg?: Learn from the Anti-Apartheid BDS Struggle in South Africa
Have You Heard From Johannesburg is a powerful seven-part documentary series by two-time Academy Award nominee Connie Field that shines light on the global citizens movements that took on South Africas apartheid regime. It reveals how everyday people helped challenge and end one of the greatest injustices the world has ever known. Have You Heard […]
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PSCABI and TUA – An open letter in support of the UK prisoners given extended sentences for opposing Israeli War Crimes
Besieged Gaza, Palestine 9 April 2010 We write to you as academics and student representatives of all academic institutions in the besieged Gaza Strip. We support and salute your willingness to suffer the consequences that come with demonstrating in a “free” Western country against the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against us, the […]
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The Assault on Israeli Legitimacy
Chris Hedges on Netanyahu, Lieberman and the future of Israel. Israel, with its vast settlement expansion – including the hundreds of new homes it intends to build in East Jerusalem – makes no pretense anymore about working toward a two-state solution. It is an overtly apartheid state. Its goal is no longer rapprochement with the […]
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Peace for Israelis and Palestinians? Not without America’s tough love.
An Israeli student explains why the US should act on moral outrage over Israel”s discriminatory policies before it”s too late. By Jonathan Ben-Artzi April 1, 2010 at 11:48 am EDT Providence, R.I. – More than 20 years ago, many Americans decided they could no longer watch as racial segregation divided South Africa. Compelled by an […]
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Apartheid on Two Continents
March 25, 2010 It is Back; It is Near By MATS SVENSSON We all have a common history that crosses borders in terms of both country and time. Together with black and white in South Africa we acted forcefully, taking a stand against apartheid and defining the evil and the good. We became part of […]
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Israel And Apartheid: By People Who Knew Apartheid
31 March 2010 1. André Brink, one of South Africa’s leading authors, whose opposition to the apartheid regime resulted in his novels becoming the first books in Afrikaans to be banned by the government. This extract is from his memoir, A Fork In The Road (in French, from which the excerpt is taken, Mes bifurcations, […]
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Israel’s acts against Palestinians exceed the worst of apartheid’s crimes, writes Iqbal Jassat
Building barriers to peace Mar 31, 2010 10:07 PM | By Iqbal Jassat The Big Read: I find the opinion piece by Benjamin Pogrund entitled “It still takes two to tango” (March 23) extraordinarily delusional. This is to be expected ever since Pogrund migrated to Israel and commenced a public profile that many have come […]
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In the Final Analysis
By Sana A recent “policy paper,” written by McGill History professor Gil Troy and AICE”s Mitchell Bard, has been aggressively circulating around the internet. Supposedly to be presented at a meeting of Jewish scholars and activists in Israel, it condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a “full-blown political, economic, cultural, ideological struggle […]
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Mideast peace effort is a charade
By Ali Abunimah, Special to CNN March 23, 2010 — Updated 1646 GMT (0046 HKT) Editor’s note: Ali Abunimah is the author of “One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse,” and is a frequent speaker and commentator on the Middle East. (CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Monday speech to America’s […]
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Israeli Apartheid and The Nakba
There can be absolutely no doubt that Israel has created an inhuman, illegal and utterly disgraceful Apartheid state, and the international community will never be able to excuse itself if it takes no action against this blatant, ongoing and in-plain-sight crime against humanity. Please join the millions of decent people around the world who are […]
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