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Lest we forget: US govt opposed BDS against apartheid South Africa as it does against apartheid Israel
Department of State Bulletin August 1, 1988 The potential impact of imposing sanctions against South Africa.; John C. Whitehead statement; transcript SECTION: Pg. p58(5) Vol. V88 No. N2137 ISSN: 0041-7610 LENGTH: 5215 words Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 22, 1988. Mr. Whitehead is Deputy Secretary of State..sup.1 Thank you for this […]
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Is Israel an Apartheid State?
Download: Is Israel an Apartheid State? (pdf, 5.57 MB) Do Israel”s practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law? Summary of a legal study by Human Sciences Research Center of South Africa. Summary written by Frances H. ReMillard. Rhetoric […]
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Apartheid / apartheid
Written by Saree Makdisi Monday, 08 March 2010 13:06 Among the highlights of my recent trip to South Africa were a tour of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and a visit to the downtown neighborhood of Fordsie with my close friends Hanif and Salim Vally (who grew up there during the Apartheid years–an experience that […]
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Targeting Israeli Apartheid
by Stephen Lendman / March 6th, 2010 Reports like the Cape Town, South Africa-based Human Sciences Research Council”s (HSRC) May 2009 one titled, “Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid” highlight what many others understand, including former UN Special Human Rights Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine, John Dugard, stating in January 2007: “Israel is clearly in military occupation of the […]
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The Israeli Occupation as an Apartheid System
During the sixth International Israeli apartheid week, the Alternative Information Center is hosting events and lectures. On 2 March, Hazem Jamjoum of the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights discussed about Israeli apartheid system in the AICafé. On this occasion we interviewed him. Why can the Israeli occupation be considered an apartheid […]
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Israel and Apartheid: Is It a Fair Comparison?
by Edward C. Corrigan / March 1st, 2010 There is a controversy raging in North America over Israeli Apartheid Week (March 1-7 2010).1 A resolution was passed in the Ontario Provincial Parliament which was unanimously supported (only 30 MPPs voted) and declared the comparison of Israel”s treatment of the Palestinians to apartheid as “odious.” To […]
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Vancouver 2010: The IOC, Israel, Canada, and Apartheid
by Kim Petersen / February 19th, 2010 The Winter Olympics is taking place in the unceded territory of the Skwxwú7mesh, Xwméthkwyiem and Tsleil-Waututh peoples – what has been colonially designated Vancouver – and the unceded territory of the St”at”imc people – Whistler. Israel has sent an ice dancing pair to the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Of […]
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UA: An honorable history of divestment
By Gabriel Schivone Published: Thursday, February 4, 2010 After an intensive anti-sweatshop campaign last spring led by students in the Sweatshop-Free Coalition and University Community for Human Rights, President Robert Shelton had the UA divest our financial holdings in the Russell Corporation due to the company”s singularly cruel labor abuses in its factories in Honduras. […]
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Israel Gets More Comfortable with Status Quo
By Tony Karon Monday, Feb. 15, 2010 “If, and as long as between the Jordan (River) and the [Mediterranean] Sea there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or nondemocratic,” warned Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak last week. “If the Palestinians vote in elections it is a binational […]
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COSATU President Sidumo Dlamini Addresses Gaza Reportback: Isolate Apartheid Israel!
January 28, 2010 (Lenasia, South Africa) – Soweto yesterday, Gaza today. . . The forces of apartheid demonstrate limitless capacity for barbarism! Almost a year ago, Gaza was run down by the occupying forces of Israel in a barbaric show of might and in pursuit of their colonial expansionist ambitions. Schools, clinics, UN buildings, social […]
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