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Professor Farid Esack, Kwara Kekana and Muhammed Desai of BDS South Africa [Sunday Tribune, 26 July 2015] For a South African the sense of deja vu is inescapable almost immediately upon arrival in the land of Palestine-Israel. Let’s re-phrase that, for a peace and justice loving South African or one who has lived under Apartheid…

The Zionist Federation and SA Jewish Board of Deputies are increasingly insulting of and undermining the ANC, making ridiculous attacks on the ANC and our leadership. We are shocked, but not surprised,  by political meddling by the pro-Israeli government lobby groups.  The lies and mistruths they are spreading place them in the political arena and…

 By SAM SOKOL, JTA \07/16/2015 18:03 Tensions between the ruling African National Congress party and the South African Jewish community rose this week after a senior government official threatened to punish students who visited Israel. Obed Bapela, a deputy minister in President Jacob Zuma’s office, charged the students, who visited Israel recently under the auspices…

Deputy minister in President Jacob Zuma’s office charges students with bringing ruling African National Congress into ‘disrepute,’ says party would ‘summon’ them to an investigation. By JTA | Jul. 15, 2015 | 6:15 PM Jewish groups in South Africa condemned a government official for threatening to punish students who visited Israel. Obed Bapela, a deputy…

Mpho Raborife, News24 |2015-07-16 19:07 Johannesburg – Three members of the SA Students Congress (Sasco) have been suspended for taking part in a trip to Israel, despite being warned not to. Sasco secretary general Luzuko Buku said the trio had been advised not to go on the trip, but ignored the warning. They would now have to…

[14 July 2015] SASCO has noted with great concern the attempts by the Zionist lobby to wage a counter offensive to our ongoing solidarity campaigns with the oppressed people of Palestine. We view the targeting of students and members of SASCO in particular as a deliberate attack on our organization in order to neutralize our…

[Saturday 11 July 2015] Sanction busters not members- YCLSA The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] has made clear its position, which is in line with the policies of the SACP and the NEC of the ANC, on travel bans to the apartheid state of Israel. We have been consistent that we support, with…

BY NEWSROOM ON [JUNE 11, 2015] South African youth and students have slammed what they call “Israel propaganda holiday trips”. This was the call at a press conference on Thursday, called by BDS South Africa and the Progressive Youth Alliance. National and provincial leaders of the ANC Youth League, SASCO, and COSAS were also in…

11 June 2015 “Palestinian civil society organisations considers the holiday trips to apartheid Israel organised by pro-Israeli lobby groups such as the SA Israel Forum, SA Friends of Israel and the racist SA Zionist Federation are as immoral and condemnable as the boycott-busting junkets to Apartheid South Africa in the 1980s. Similar to the propaganda trips…