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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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Palestinian homes sprayed with waste water, their farmlands burned, and two siblings shot –
Violence / Detentions — West Bank / Jerusalem Two siblings injured in Kufur Qaddoum; army sprays homes with wastewater IMEMC 4 June by Saed Bannoura — Israeli soldiers invaded, Friday, Kufur Qaddoum town, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, and assaulted the weekly protesters, wounding two siblings with live rounds. The army also…
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PRESS STATEMENT: Israeli embassy misleading media and public on North West Premier’s participation
05 June 2016 The human rights and Palestine solidarity organisation BDS South Africa is not convinced by claims made by Israel’s embassy that senior ANC leader, and North West Permier, Comrade Supra Mahumapelo will be attending the Israeli Embassy’s Water seminar tomorrow (Monday 6 June in Johannesburg). The allegation is meant to confuse and try…
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Celebrating the hero, Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
PRESS STATEMENT Celebrating the hero, Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) 04 June 2016 The human rights and Palestine solidarity organisation BDS South Africa joins the peace-loving peoples of the world in mourning the loss and celebrating the life of boxing legend and activist, Muhammad Ali. Ali is an inspiration for those us fighting for justice – be it…
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2013 JOINT MEDIA STATEMENT: South African agricultural company severs Israeli relations
[heading size=”1″ color=”#fff000″]2013 JOINT MEDIA STATEMENT: South African agricultural company severs Israeli relations[/heading] January 28, 2013 In a move being celebrated as a South African boycott-of-Israel breakthrough, Karsten Farms, a leading South African agricultural company backed by one of South Africa’s primary finance bodies, the Industrial Development Corporation, has severed its relations with the Israeli…
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2013 PRESS STATEMENT: Karsten Farms Boycott Ends
Dear Friends and Comrades, During the 1980s, after years of campaigning, South Africa’s apartheid policies and being associated with the then South African regime became economically unwise and a liability. Today, Israel’s apartheid policies and being associated with the Israeli regime is becoming increasingly risky for business, economically (as well as politically) unwise and a…
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Zamli dates and relations to Israel under investigation
PRESS STATEMENT: Desert Fruit Zamli dates and relations to Israel under investigation 03 June 2016 (updated) The Palestine solidarity and human rights organisation BDS South Africa together with our partner organisations including the Palestine Solidarity Alliance, Polokwane BD, Rustenburg PSF, Wits PSC and others have been alerted by members of the public to the issue…
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Visualising: The daily struggle to access water
By the Jordan Valley Team, 19.04.2016. Palestinian village of Al Hadidiya dry and Israeli settlement of Roi green with trees and vineyards Al-Hadidiya is a Palestinian village located in the Northern Jordan Valley, right next to the illegal Israeli settlement of Roi. For the residents of Roi, clean safe drinking water is accessed by…
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Palestine PMO: Israel’s destruction of Palestinian water infrastructure is atrocious
PNN/ Ramallah/ Today, Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah issued a statement condemning Israel’s illegal practice of destroying Palestinian water infrastructure. “Israel uses every means possible to chase Palestinians away from their ancestral land,” Hamdallah said. “Water is life, and if you don’t have water you cannot exist.” On Tuesday, Israel handed out demolition notices for four…
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Israel’s water miracle that wasn’t Covering up a crime in plain sight: The dual function of Israel’s water industry.
It was impressive at first: Long stretches of seemingly barren, beige hills punctuated by abundantly fertile farms growing oranges, dates and watermelons, first appearing in southern Israel in the middle of the 20th century. Unlike the gaudy, fake lakes and gushing fountains of Las Vegas plopped in the middle of the Mojave desert, this prodigious…
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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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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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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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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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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…