Category: CULTURAL BOYCOTT
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“FREE PALESTINO” MUSIC TRACK BY SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST VELAPHI LIVE
South African musician and composer Velaphi Ngqaqu (aka “Velaphi Live”) has produced this short song for BDS South Africa, titled “Free Palestino”. Velaphi, who started performing live music at the age of 17, is best known for his debut album ‘In The Soil’ with his band, Seed. The band’s second album, ‘Germination’ was an entrant into…
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Women form the backbone of struggle for liberation
This article was originally published in The Daily Maverick on the 30th of August 2017 As we end Women’s month, the struggle continues, and internationally so! Our struggle for a democratic, non-racist, non-sexist, prosperous, and free society has been one that required leaders of great resilience, and fortitude. At the forefront of our struggle has been…
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PALESTINIAN YOUTH ACTIVISTS ON TOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA [JANNA JIHAD & AHED TAMIMI]
Palestinian youth activists Janna Jihad (11) and Ahed Tamimi (16) are in South Africa on a two week speaking tour. They are being hosted by various organisations with events in several cities. Click here for a SABC TV news clip with Jihad and Tamimi at the Hector Pieterson Youth Museum in Soweto. We welcome Jihad and Tamimi…
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South African Filmmaker withdraws from Israeli Film Festival
28 May 2017 Respecting the Palestinian BDS boycott of Israel, award-winning South African film director, John Trengove, has withdrawn from the upcoming Israeli LGBT Tel Aviv film festival and requested that his feature film, The Wound, not be screened at the festival’s opening night gala. Trengove’s controversial feature, The Wound (Inxeba) which is…
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SA JEWS FOR PALESTINE (SAJFP) HOST VISITING DELEGATION IN JOHANNESBURG AND CAPE TOWN
Our friends from the SA Jews for Palestine (SAJFP) are hosting a visiting delegation of Palestinian activists from various organizations including Adalah, Zochrot, ADRID and Badil. Here are some of the upcoming events: GROUP OF SOUTH AFRICAN JEWS APOLOGIZE TO DISPLACED PALESTINIANS In 1948 Israeli forces depopulated and ethnically cleansed several Palestinian villages to…
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Letter of well wishes to Archbishop Tutu from award-winning Palestinian film director
ABOVE IMAGE: Archbishop Tutu with President Carter and other Elders at the gravesite of Bassem Abu Rahme, a Palestinian youth killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Bil’in. Below is a letter of well wishes to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu from Emad Burnat, the Palestinian director of the award-winning and Oscar-nominated film,…
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BDS SA wishes Muslim members and community a happy Eid
Palestinians break their fast on the first day of Ramadan in the al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City. Click here for other photos. 05 July 2016 The human rights and Palestine solidarity organisation BDS South Africa wishes all Muslim friends, comrades and the Muslim community a warm Eid Mubarak.We pray that noble and religious efforts through the…
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PRESS STATEMENT: North West Premier a “no show” at Israeli Embassy water event
06 June 2016 Contrary to allegations by the Israeli Embassy, the North West Premier and ANC Provincial Chairperson Cde. Supra Mahumapelo did not attend, speak at or participate in today’s SA Israel Water Week event. Last week Israeli Ambassador Arthur Lenk sent out invites with Premier Mahumapelo as one of the Israeli Embassy’s main speakers…
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African-Palestinian community’s deep roots in liberation struggle
Ali Jiddah speaks with a tour group in the Old City of Jerusalem in March 2014. Ryan Rodrick Beiler In early June the African Community Club in Jerusalem’s Old City was crammed with mourners. They had come to pay their respects to the late Subhiyeh Sharaf, an amiable woman and community elder. The club serves as the…
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Israeli government must cease intimidation of human rights defenders, protect them from attacks
The Israeli authorities must end their long-standing attacks on Palestinian human rights defenders (HRDs) and halt the climate of intimidation of HRDs in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Amnesty International said today. Israeli authorities must take immediate steps to provide protection necessary for HRDs in Israel/OPT to carry out their work freely and…
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Activist Hedy Epstein, Palestinian rights advocate and Holocaust survivor, dies at 91
Hedy Epstein in the Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice on November 20, 2010 (Credit: Reuters/Michaela Rehle) At age 90, Hedy Epstein was still getting arrested in activist movements. In August 2014, the nonagenarian Holocaust survivor was detained by St. Louis police at a civil disobedience action in support of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen who…
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Sanders’ Challenge to Clinton and Democrats: Palestinian Lives Matter
The party currently supports a two-state solution because it serves Israel’s interests, but not because Palestinians have the right to live as free citizens of their own country. When it comes to Israel, Bernie Sanders is already changing the Democratic Party. In 2012, Barack Obama’s campaign chose the committee that drafted the party’s platform. On…
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Defend right to boycott Israel, urge European NGOs, political parties
May 18, 2016 at 5:46 pm | Published in: EU, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, UK More than 300 human rights and aid organisations, church groups, trade unions and political parties from across the continent are urging the European Union (EU) to defend the right of individuals and institutions to take…
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PRESS STATEMENT: Activists request meeting with Die Antwoord music band over Israel boycott
15 May 2016 The human rights and Palestine solidarity organisation BDS South Africa has written a 1000-word letter to rappers Ninja, Yolandi Visser (Vi$$er) and DJ Hi-Tek of the South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord. BDS South Africa is urging Die Antwoord to respect the international boycott against Israel. Die Antwoord is due to perform…