Category: STUDENT BOYCOTT
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Students running for upcoming elections reject Israel trips
Students, belonging to the SA Students Congress (SASCO) and the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA), who are running in the current Wits University SRC student government elections have signed a public pledge rejecting propaganda junket trips to Israel. In the last election SASCO/PYA won all seats in the Wits University SRC student government. (Click here for the declaration/pledge). In…
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SALUTE, LOVE AND RESPECT FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO PALESTINIAN STUDENTS WHO BOYCOTTED ISRAEL AT ICC
South African students have applauded their Palestinian counterparts who boycotted Israel at the recent International Criminal Moot Court Competition held at the Hague in the Netherlands. The Palestinian team (from Birzeit University near Ramallah), who won the award for “Best Written Memorial for the Defense”, successfully made it to the quarter-final of the international competition.…
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SA Students launches “Internationalist” Calendar
27 January 2017 The Palestine solidarity and human rights organization BDS South Africa welcomes the launch of of the “Internationalist Calendar” by the Johannesburg Region of the South African Students Congress (SASCO). The calendar, features images of South Africa’s Oliver Tambo, Palestine’s Leila Khaled, Cuba’s Fidel Castro and former President Nelson Mandela. It also carries…
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VIDEO: HILLARY CLINTON ATTACKS SOUTH AFRICAN INSPIRED BDS BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL MOVEMENT
12 June 2016 United States presidential contender Hillary Clinton has attacked the South African inspired, non-violent, citizen-led, Palestinian-headed, international BDS boycott of Israel movement. Speaking at the pro-Israeli lobby American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) she said: “we have to be united in fighting back against BDS”. >>> Click here for video <<< Even though BDS…
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Women elected student body president at three West Bank universities
When Dana Rwaidy started university two years ago, she never thought she would hold the position of student body president. Most class presidents in the occupied West Bank’s universities are chosen from the senior class, and the vast majority have long been men. “I was one of 33 people on the list of possible candidates for…
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Ireland latest EU state to defend BDS
Kevin Squires The Electronic Intifada 28 May 2016 |A Palestine solidarity contingent takes part in the Reclaim the Vision of 1916 march in Dublin, on 24 April, marking 100 years since Ireland’s Easter Rising. (via Facebook) In another blow to the Israeli campaign to criminalize Palestine solidarity activism, the Irish government has affirmed that the…
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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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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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S. African University’s student council unanimously adopts boycott of Israel
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