Category: ISRAELI PROPAGANDA TRIPS
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The Wits Palestine Solidarity Committee condemns Israeli Propaganda Trips
Press Statement: The Wits Palestine Solidarity Committee condemns Israeli Propaganda Trips The Wits University Palestine Solidarity Committee (Wits PSC) is shocked to learn that students from Wits University accepted invites from the Israeli lobby for a propaganda holiday trip to Israel that took place between the 5th and 11th of July. The Israeli propaganda trips…
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Weekend Argus: Row over students’ Israel visit
[July 12 2015] By Yazeed Kamaldien Cape Town – The ANC is set to investigate a group of students who allegedly represented it on a paid trip to Israel. It’s an attempt to embarrass us, one of the party’s top officials said on Saturday. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article, complete with a photograph,…
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SA youth slam “Israeli propaganda trips”
BY NEWSROOM ON [JUNE 11, 2015] South African youth and students have slammed what they call “Israel propaganda holiday trips”. This was the call at a press conference on Thursday, called by BDS South Africa and the Progressive Youth Alliance. National and provincial leaders of the ANC Youth League, SASCO, and COSAS were also in…
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FORMER DUTCH ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST SPEAKS OUT ON ISRAELI PROPAGANDA TRIPS
The South African Zionist Federation has previously organized trips to the Middle East for journalists. (The Jewish Agency for Israel/Flickr) Pro-Israel groups have invited South Africa’s “finest young leaders” on a trip to the Middle East next month. An email message about the tour states that participants will listen to “unbiased keynote speakers” and learn about…
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Young Communist League Of South Africa (YCLSA) Rejects Sanction Busters
[Saturday 11 July 2015] Sanction busters not members- YCLSA The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] has made clear its position, which is in line with the policies of the SACP and the NEC of the ANC, on travel bans to the apartheid state of Israel. We have been consistent that we support, with…
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Anti Apartheid Icon Denis Goldberg Slams Israeli Propaganda Holiday Trips
[video-item url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBw6KJh47MM” width=”560″ height=”415″][/video-item] Nelson Mandela’s co-accused, Denis Goldberg, slams Israeli propaganda holiday trips 9 July 2015 Nelson Mandela’s Rivonia Trial co-accused and Jewish anti-apartheid stalwart, Denis Goldberg, has came out slamming the Israeli lobby’s use of propaganda holiday trips to try to entice and buy-off South African students, young people and enterpreneurs. Goldberg, speaking at…
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Letter from Palestinian Christians to KZN Premier in 2012 re a similar Israeli trip that was intended for KZN mayors (please note the 2012 trip was canceled by the then Premier Cde.
[August 03, 2012] Dear Premier Zweli Mkhize: Greetings from the Holy Land, cradle of three monotheistic religions, significant primarily for its spirituality. We, Christians from Kairos Palestine (based in the holy city of Bethlehem) have been informed about a trip to Israel planned by the SA-Israel Forum for a delegation of mayors and municipal members…
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STATEMENT BY SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH GROUPS ON ISRAELI PROPAGANDA TRIPS
JOINT PYA STATEMENT: South African Youth and Student Groups Slam Israeli Propaganda Holiday Trips 11 June 2015 A meeting was convened earlier today by the leadership of the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) which is composed of the African National Congress Youth League (ANC Youth League) the youth wing of South Africa’s ruling ANC party, the South…
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ANC AND SA GOVERNMENT POSITION ON TRAVEL TO ISRAEL
ANC Head of International Relations Sub- Committee, Obed Bapela: There is a resolution that the ANC took that all leaders of the ANC in Government in municipalities, in provincial legislatures, in the organisation must no longer visit. A circular is being sent that if you get an invitation to Israel you must just decline” –…
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Letter from progressive Israeli comrades belonging to “Boycott From Within”
(11 JUNE 2015) We are a group of Israeli citizens, active against our government’s policies of racism, occupation and apartheid. We would like to denounce an attempted sanctions-busting junket organized by South African supporters of Israeli apartheid. This deplorable policy resembles 1980s junkets to Apartheid South Africa organised by US and UK based groups which…
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LETTER FROM PALESTINIAN CIVIL SOCIETY FROM THE BOYCOTT, NATIONAL COMMITTEE(BNC)
11 June 2015 “Palestinian civil society organisations considers the holiday trips to apartheid Israel organised by pro-Israeli lobby groups such as the SA Israel Forum, SA Friends of Israel and the racist SA Zionist Federation are as immoral and condemnable as the boycott-busting junkets to Apartheid South Africa in the 1980s. Similar to the propaganda trips…