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Students running for upcoming elections reject Israel trips
Students, belonging to the SA Students Congress (SASCO) and the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA), who are running in the current Wits University SRC student government elections have signed a public pledge rejecting propaganda junket trips to Israel. In the last election SASCO/PYA won all seats in the Wits University SRC student government. (Click here for the declaration/pledge). In…
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Israel isolated again as Palestine admitted to Interpol
05 October 2017 | In a diplomatic blow to Israel, the world’s largest police organization, Interpol, has admitted Palestine as its newest member. The vote took place during the recent 86th Interpol General Assembly, which ended last week in China (click here for a Times of Israel article). Israel, in collaboration with the USA, sought…
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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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Gifting Apartheid – Activists shocked by DIRCO official’s gift to Israel
21 September 2017 The human rights and Palestine solidarity organisation BDS South Africa is shocked by a recent and blatant insult of South African policy and our people by an official at South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO). Anil Sooklal, an official at DIRCO, is reported to have given Israeli Ambassador…
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Israel-Africa Summit called-off following boycott threats
11 September 2017 The human rights and Palestine solidarity organization, BDS South Africa, welcomes the calling-off of the Africa-Israel Summit which was meant to take place in Togo next month. The decision comes following several boycott threats. (Click here) This is welcome as good news by human rights organisations and the global BDS movement which has called…
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Boycott promotes freedom
This article was published in The Weekend Argus on the 3rd of September 2017 Not for the first time in UCT’s recent past, the university is facing a dilemma: whether to capitulate to the groans of the South African Zionist community, or whether to promote the human rights and academic freedom of Palestinians by implementing an…
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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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Debunking Israeli propaganda visits
This article was originally published in The Star newspaper on the 24 th August 2017 By all accounts the recent trip to South Africa by a delegation of Israeli parliamentarians was an utter failure. The group sought to downplay its regime’s crimes and increasing isolation, but, instead, the main headlines were that they were rejected…
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Messages of support flow in to South African Parliament for shunning Israeli delegation
Messages of support have flowed in for the position taken by the Parliament of South Africa in rejecting a visiting Israeli delegation. Fateh, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and sister-party to South Africa’s governing ANC, has written to the SA Parliament saying: “Fateh commends the parliament of South Africa for sending a clear and strong message…
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South African Jews welcome Parliament’s rejection of Israeli invite
SAJFP MEDIA STATEMENT South African Jews welcome Parliament’s rejection of Israeli invite (10 August 2017) We, as Jewish South Africans, warmly welcome the decision by the Parliament of South Africa to shun a visiting Israeli delegation to the country. We join the chorus of South Africans in saying: “no normal relations with an abnormal…
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South African Parliament shuns Israeli delegation
SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT SHUNS ISRAELI DELEGATION 07 August 2017 The human rights and Palestine solidarity organization BDS South Africa welcomes the South African Parliament’s shunning of a visiting Israeli delegation (click here). The decision has been supported by the ANC parliamentary caucus that also resolved to reject the Israeli invite (click here). Various organizations, human…
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SA PARLIAMENT STANDS BY PALESTINIAN PEOPLE – STATEMENT BY MANDLA MANDELA (MP)
SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT STANDS BY THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE – STATEMENT BY MANDLA MANDELA (MP) – Israeli delegation invite rejected We applaud Parliament’s decision to reject the invitation for the Israeli parliamentary delegation to visit. In so doing parliament has stayed true to Madiba’s commitment to stand by the Palestinian cause until Palestine is free. We…
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Mandela’s speech from today’s Palestine protest (full text)
Below find the speech by Chief Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela, the grandson of South African icon Nelson Mandela, which he delivered at today’s over 5000 person Palestine solidarity protest in Cape Town. The protest, organized by the MJC and others, was against Israel’s siege on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and recent restriction on movement and religion as…
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Rallies in South Africa against Israeli violence at Aqsa Mosque in Palestine
PRESS ALERT Rallies in South Africa against Israeli violence at Aqsa Mosque in Palestine 26 July 2017 Later today and in this week protest actions are being rolled out in Cape Town, Johannesburg and other South African cities against Israel’s siege on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and recent restriction on movement and religion as well as the Israeli…
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VIDEO FROM THE ARCHIVES: NELSON MANDELA SPEAKING ON PALESTINE
This week as we marked the UN International #MandelaDay on 18 July we were also reminded of Madiba’s unflinching support for the Palestinian struggle against, in his words, Israeli “colonialism“. In 1990 Mandela participated in a town hall meeting in New York City, chaired by Ted Koppel of ABC Networks. The interview focuses on, among other…