Category: ACADEMIC BOYCOTT
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2015 Highlights from the BDS Boycott of Israel in South Africa
[video-item url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKREIxXEnPs” width=”400″ height=”250″][/video-item] 2015 Highlights from the BDS movement in South Africa
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Pro-Israel bias litters news story
The Editor The Star Johannesburg 28th July, 2015 We refer to your article “We were intimidated for going on trip to Israel” (24.07.15) I write to you as member of the Board of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel in (BDS South Africa), but I also write to you as veteran of our country’s liberation…
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Israeli holiday propaganda trips similar to apartheid-era junkets
Professor Farid Esack, Kwara Kekana and Muhammed Desai of BDS South Africa [Sunday Tribune, 26 July 2015] For a South African the sense of deja vu is inescapable almost immediately upon arrival in the land of Palestine-Israel. Let’s re-phrase that, for a peace and justice loving South African or one who has lived under Apartheid…
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ANC Youth League Western Cape is shocked by attack on the ANC by the SA Zionist federation
The Zionist Federation and SA Jewish Board of Deputies are increasingly insulting of and undermining the ANC, making ridiculous attacks on the ANC and our leadership. We are shocked, but not surprised, by political meddling by the pro-Israeli government lobby groups. The lies and mistruths they are spreading place them in the political arena and…
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SOUTH AFRICA’S RULING PARTY SPEAKS OUT AGAINST ISRAEL PROPAGANDA TRIPS
By SAM SOKOL, JTA \07/16/2015 18:03 Tensions between the ruling African National Congress party and the South African Jewish community rose this week after a senior government official threatened to punish students who visited Israel. Obed Bapela, a deputy minister in President Jacob Zuma’s office, charged the students, who visited Israel recently under the auspices…
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Sasco suspends three members for going on Israel trip
Mpho Raborife, News24 |2015-07-16 19:07 Johannesburg – Three members of the SA Students Congress (Sasco) have been suspended for taking part in a trip to Israel, despite being warned not to. Sasco secretary general Luzuko Buku said the trio had been advised not to go on the trip, but ignored the warning. They would now have to…
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SOUTH AFRICA OFFICIAL CLARIFIES POSITION OF RULING PARTY’S (ANC) POSITION ON TRAVEL TO ISRAEL
Deputy minister in President Jacob Zuma’s office charges students with bringing ruling African National Congress into ‘disrepute,’ says party would ‘summon’ them to an investigation. By JTA | Jul. 15, 2015 | 6:15 PM Jewish groups in South Africa condemned a government official for threatening to punish students who visited Israel. Obed Bapela, a deputy…
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Young South Africans suspended from student group for visiting Israel
Members of South Africa Students Congress face disciplinary action for ‘crossing the picket line’; group insists they went in a private capacity. By Haaretz | Jul. 18, 2015 | 5:43 AM | 4 The biggest South African student organization has suspended three students for partaking in a trip to Israel despite being warned not to go,…
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LETTER FROM PALESTINIAN STUDENT TO SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS INVITED ON ISRAELI PROPAGANDA TRIPS
Fellow students, I hope you are well. I am writing to you as a fellow student from Jerusalem with the hope of having you not participate in the upcoming trip to Israel. It is my hope that you would be able to not only read this message of mine, but to also relate to it,…
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LETTER FROM PALESTINIANS STUDENTS BELONGING TO PALESTINIAN STUDENTS CAMPAIGN FOR THE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL
22 June 2015 To the Young People of South Africa, The Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) is a student body which is a part of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). PSCABI calls upon all people, particularly students and the youth, all over the…
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SASCO condemns the participation of its members in Israeli propaganda trips
[14 July 2015] SASCO has noted with great concern the attempts by the Zionist lobby to wage a counter offensive to our ongoing solidarity campaigns with the oppressed people of Palestine. We view the targeting of students and members of SASCO in particular as a deliberate attack on our organization in order to neutralize our…
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SRCs of 5 SA Universities backing academic boycott
[video-item url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=101zarayx1Q” width=”560″ height=”415″][/video-item] Published on May 6, 2015 JOINT PRESS STATEMENT: SRCs of Five S.African universities join student academic boycott of Israel
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President Mduduzi Mabuza of the University of South Africa on academic boycott of Israel
[video-item url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi9gpVtJEuw” width=”560″ height=”415″][/video-item] Published on May 6, 2015 JOINT PRESS STATEMENT: SRCs of Five S.African universities join student academic boycott of Israel
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SRCs of Five S.African universities join student academic boycott of Israel
JOINT PRESS STATEMENT: SRCs of Five S.African universities join student academic boycott of Israel [04 May 2015] We gather here today as the Student Representative Council (SRC) presidents of five of South African universities, namely: University of South Africa, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Durban University of Technology, Mangasutho University of Technology and the University of…
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SASCO dismayed by the ridiculous expulsion of our comrades at Wits University
19 January 2014, South Africa As the South African Students Congress (SASCO) we note with shock and great sadness the decision by the University of Witwatersrand to expel about 11 of our comrades from the university (suspended for two years) for fighting for justice and the liberation of the people of Palestine. The comrades were…