Category: ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK SA

01 March 2018 Tonight (Thursday 01 March 2018) at 18h00 members of the media and public are invited to a public discussion and poetry evening at Wits University (Graduate Seminar Room, East Campus) with visiting international journalist, poet and author, Dr Maytha Alhassen and celebrated South African poet Natalia Molebatsi. The topic for the event is “Malcolm X and Afro-Palestinian Solidarity”…

Sheila Barsel,  5 March 2017 I was raised as an Orthodox Jew in Johannesburg. I have deep connections with Palestine / Israel as my father was born in Safed in then Palestina. But this cannot make me blind to the atrocities committed in Israel against a people who are indigenous to that geographical area. I am opposed to Israel’s Apartheid policies…

Sheila Barsel,  5 March 2017 I was raised as an Orthodox Jew in Johannesburg. I have deep connections with Palestine / Israel as my father was born in Safed in then Palestina. But this cannot make me blind to the atrocities committed in Israel against a people who are indigenous to that geographical area. I am opposed to Israel’s Apartheid policies…

The unfolding story of Jewish nationalism, as expressed by the State of Israel, affects primarily the Palestinian Arab people who have been dispossessed and exiled and, when still in possession of their land, become victims of legal and social discrimination.   But the other victim is the Jewish people itself, both in Israel and in…

Farid Esack 28 Feb 2017 “Whataboutism” is a virus that afflicts most apologists for apartheid Israel when they come into contact with someone who supports Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as a nonviolent strategy to support the Palestinian struggle for justice. The major symptom is a sudden onset of sympathy for other causes (typically, Syria,…

A week ago Israeli TV host Assaf Harel said: “Ever since the right wing took power more voices are warning of apartheid. Are you kidding? Apartheid has been here for ages. It’s just that we’re on its good side, so it doesn’t really bother us. We’ve been abusing the Palestinians for years, denying them their…

28 March 2017    Today, the National Coalition for Palestine (NC4P) mourns, celebrates and give thanks for the life of one of South Africa’s greatest leaders, Ahmed Kathrada. We mourn a staunch friend of the Palestinian struggle and the BDS movement. In 2013 he wrote: “years ago, amidst world-wide acclamation and celebration, apartheid was thrown…

16 March 2017   The human rights and Palestine solidarity organization BDS South Africa invites you to a Afro-Latino dance event celebrating human rights and international solidarity.   The event, organized to commemorate Human Rights day, is hosted by Baila Afrika dance family with support from BDS SA, Embassy of Cuba, Embassy of Palestine, People Against Suffering and…

19 March 2017   Israeli lobbyists have cowardly vandalised an #IsraeliApartheidWeek (IAW) Palestine billboard near Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport. The billboard was put up earlier this month as part of the recent #IsraeliApartheidWeek campaign. Click here for SABC TV news coverage of the issue.   A case of malicious damage to property has been opened at the…

Former African Union Chairperson, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, will deliver a Palestine solidarity lecture in Rustenburg on Monday 27 March 2017 at 14h00 as part of this year’s annual #IsraeliApartheidWeek (IAW) campaign. The event, to be held at Ben Marais Hall (Cnr. Middel and Beneden Road, Rustenburg), will be hosted by the ANC in Rustenburg (Bojanala…

27 February 2017 The human rights and Palestine solidarity organization, BDS South Africa, joins fellow South Africans in mourning the passing of Judge Essa Moosa. We share our deepest condolences with the family of Judge Moosa. At the same time we also celebrate the life of Essa Moosa by recognising the incredible contribution he made to the South African…

03 February 2017 Click here for Zulu version. Click here for Afrikaans version. Join us in making this year’s 13th annual international Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) bigger, better and bolder! IAW is an annual international series of self-organized events (rallies, protests, lectures, cultural performances, concerts, films and workshops) held in over 250 cities, communities and campuses…