BDS SOUTH AFRICA PRESS RELEASES




  • Press Releases and Statements
  • News and Opinion Items

    • Press Releases and Media Statements     
    - PRESS RELEASE: Financial threats made by Israel lobby to Wits University in S.Africa; calls for an investigation 
    - MEDIA RELEASE: Palestinian Postal Workers write to S.African counterparts (memorandum handover today at 13h30 in Pretoria) [15_05_2013]  
    - MEDIA INVITE: Protest tomorrow by the South African Communication Workers Union against labor-brokers, SA Post Office and "Apartheid Israel" (Pretoria, Wednesday 15 May)
    - MEDIA RELEASE: Statements from Wits University structures in support of 11 Wits students being charged by Wits Management for protesting against Israel concert [14_05_2013]
    - BREAKING: S. African Jewish community leader implicated in violent assault against Palestine solidarity protesters   
    - PRESS RELEASE: Jewish security organization violently assaults two women protesters; one protester left in concussion 
     - MEDIA REMINDER: South Africans to Protest in Johannesburg against Israeli Independence Day
     - PRESS STATEMENT: Department of Trade & Industry announces special labeling for Israeli products; calls to initiate complete boycott of Israel 
    - PRESS REMINDER: Launch of Mats Svensson's photobook "Crimes, Victims & Witnesses: Apartheid in Palestine" [08_04_2013]
    - WITS UNIVERSITY SRC: Demands investigation into racial profiling, violence against students and Israel boycott [08_03_2013]
    - MEDIA RELEASE: Full and complete memorandum on Palestine-Israel submitted by South African civil society and political organizations to 5th BRICS Summit
    - MEDIA INVITE: Denis Goldberg, Prof Farid Esack, Prof Ran Greenstein On Israeli Xenophobia And Racism Toward African And Palestinians [14_03_2013]
    - STATEMENT: SNUS/SDC SWAZILAND Joint Statement On Israeli Apartheid Week [13_03_2013]
    - STATEMENT: Jamiatul Ulama South Africa Ninth - International Israeli Apartheid Week [13_03_2013]
    - MEDIA INVITE: Palestinian Novelist Susan Abulhawa Speaks In South Africa (First Event Tonight At UJ With ANC Chair, Baleka Mbete) [13_03_2013]
    - PRESS INVITE: Ronald Lamola And Jessie Duarte Speak At The University Of Pretoria [Today, 13_03_2013]
    - PRESS STATEMENT: S. African Students Disrupt (& Cancel) Israeli Performance At Johannesburg University [13_03_2013]
    - URGENT PRESS RELEASE: Student Protests Expected Tonight At Wits University Over Israeli Musician [12_03_2013]
     - PRESS STATEMENT: Democratic Alliance attempts to censor Palestine solidarity campaign and have usage of ‘apartheid’ termed as hate speech [10_03_2013]
    - Media Release: Bomb threats made to Palestine vigil at S. Africa's International Relations Department and other "Gaza Solidarity" events [21_11_2012]
    - Media Release: 24 Hour Candlelight Vigil for Gaza at S.Africa's Department of International Relations [21_11_2012]
    - Media Release: S. Africa's Public Prosecutor to investigate Israel's 2010 attack on Gaza aid ship [14_11_2012]
    - Media Release: Call for South Africa's "Cape Town World Music Festival" to #DropIsrael or face boycott [08_11_2012]
    - Press Release: S. African Toy Store, Reggies, forced to shut down due to protest [04_11_2012]
    - Media Release: S. African advertising company, 'Continental Outdoor Media', pressured by Israeli-lobby over Palestine solidarity billboard [02_11_2012]
    - Press Release: Protest this Sunday against South African toy store supporting ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Palestinians [31_10_2012]
    - Press Release: ANC International Solidarity Conference supports boycott of Israel! [28_10_2012]
    - Press Release: Over 150 Former Intl. Anti-Apartheid activists write to S.Africa's ANC [26_10_2012]
    - Media Release: Celebrating OR Tambo: Messages from the African National Congress [26_10_2012]
    - Press Invite: Film Screening and Intl. Guest Speaker (Oliver Tambo Celebration, Wed 24 Oct) [23_10_2012]
    - Media Release: Palestine solidarity billboards go up across South Africa [07_10_2012]
    - Media Statement: S. African retailer, Wellness Warehouse, ends trade with Israeli company [30_09_2012]
    - Media Release: Condolences from S. Africa on the occasion of the passing of Palestinian Ambassador to SA, Ali Halimeh [17_09_2012]
    - Media Release:  S. Africa's Wits University student council unanimously adopts Israel boycott [03_09_2012]
    - Media Statement: SA’s position on Israel commendable [16_08_2012]
    - Press Release: YCLSA supports government position on Israel [16_08_2012]
    - Press Statement: COSATU supports call for isolation of Israel as an apartheid state [16_08_2012]
    - Public Statement: SA Jews support SA government position on discouraging trips to Israel[15_08_2012]
    - Media Statement: SACP supports boycotts of Apartheid Israel [15_08_2012]
    - Media Statement: PSC welcomes Ebrahim Ebrahim statement [15_08_2012]
    - Press Release: SA reiterates "discouragement" of trips to Israel [14_09_2012]
    - Media Release: SA Government-"We strongly discourage South Africans from going to Israel" [13_09_2012] 
    - Media Release: Call for boycott of SA company complicit in Israeli Occupation [22_07-2012] 
    - Media Statement: S. African civil society welcomes ANC's policy position on Palestine and boycott of Israel [03_07_2012]
    - Press Release: Christians take on Christians, over Israel - Open letter to Reverend Meshoe of the ACDP [25_06_2012]
    - Press Release: South Africans appeal to Minister of Sport, Fikile Mbalula, to intervene at UEFA [19_06_2012]
    - Media Release: Alice Walker refuses Israel permission to publish her novel, The Color Purple [19_06_2012]
    - Press Release: European sportsmen decalre support for Palestinian Footballer Mahmaoud Sarsak [14_06_2012] 
    - Media Release: Palestinian hunger- striker writes heartbreaking letter to 2 year old daughter [14_05_2012]
    - Press Reminder: IAW events [08_03_2012]
    - Press Alert: Media invited to IAW events [05_03_ 2012]
    - Press Alert: National Film Tour - "Roadmap to Apartheid" (5-11 March) [01_03_ 2012]
    - Press Statement: A letter from the SA Council of Churches to all Churches in SA [24_02_2012]
    - Press Release: Israeli Gov. Dispatches PR Envoy to SA, Students React [19_02_2012]
    - Press Release: Leading Queer voices issue statement on "Pinkwashing" [27_01_2012]
    - Media Release: American Black Panther activist, Angela Davis, commends South African student leadership on boycott of Israel position [17_08_2011]
    - Media Statement: Johannesburg's OR Tambo International airport goes into high alert this morning, Israeli delegation’s welcome disrupted [11_08_2011]
    - Media Release: EU Human Rights laureate together with Israeli academics and students deliver letter to SA counterparts, and to SA prosecution authorities [08_08_2011]
    - Press Statement: SA student bodies slam "Israeli Apartheid Agents" and endorse nationwide Israel boycott [04_08_2011]
    - Press Conference Alert [03_08_2011]
    News and Opinion Items


    - Mail & Guardian: DA councillor's 'Israeli apartheid' outburst squelched [14_03_2013]
    - News24 Voices: Is Asking for Human Right Anti-Semitism [14_03_2013]