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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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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…
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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…
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PRESS STATEMENT: South African church activist en route to Palestine deported by Israel
13 May 2016 | http://tinyurl.com/hvouwgd South African church activist, Itani Rasalanavho, was detained and then deported by Israeli authorities last week en route to the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Last Thursday (5 May) Itani Rasalanavho was travelling to Palestine to join the Christian Peacemakers Team (CPT), an organisation conducting human rights work in various countries including…
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From Israeli citizens to Die Antwoord – Please don’t play apartheid Israel
May 2016 To Ninja (Watkin Tudor Jones), Yolandi Visser and DJ Hi-Tek, We are citizens of Israel, active against our government’s military occupation and apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. After many years of trying to change our society from within, we have come to the conclusion that only an international campaign, such as the one…
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Dear Ninja (Watkin Tudor Jones), Yolandi Visser and DJ Hi-Tek and other members of Die Antwoord,
6 May 2016 Dear Ninja (Watkin Tudor Jones), Yolandi Visser and DJ Hi-Tek and other members of Die Antwoord, “The temptation in our situation is to speak in muffled tones about an issue such as the right of the people of Palestine…we can fall into the trap of washing our hands of difficulties that others…