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Posts Tagged ‘Apartheid’

Haidar Eid – An Open letter to Mr. Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa

By Guest Post • Sep 10th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

(in the photo: People in Johannesburg March in Solidarity with Palestine.) Dear Mr. President,
I am writing to express my dismay and disappointment with both your attendance at the national conference of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies – a racist organization by any standards – as well as the content of your speech at [...]

Football game or tear gas and bullets? Palestinians put racist ad to test

By Haitham Sabbah • Jul 23rd, 2009 • Category: Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Video, War, Zionism

The row over a racist advert of Cellcom – an Israeli mobile phone operator, which shows Israel Occupation Forces soldiers playing football with Palestinians on both sides of the Apartheid Wall, continues.
In the Cellcom advert, IOF soldiers on patrol along the Wall stop their army jeep when it is hit by a soccer ball from [...]

Ronnie Kasrils – The Other Apartheid State

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

Address by Ronnie Kasrils: CAPE TOWN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: RE-ENVISIONING ISRAEL/PALESTINE 12 JUNE 2009

May I start by quoting a South African who emphatically stated as far back as 1961 that “The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel like South Africa, is an apartheid state” (Rand [...]

Int'l study: Israeli control in occupied territories 'is a breach of the prohibition of apartheid'

By Haitham Sabbah • May 17th, 2009 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

The following international report concluding that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories "has become a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid" was sent out by journalist Ben White. Another stinging statement from the report: "The Wall and its infrastructure of gates and permanent checkpoints suggest a policy permanently to divide the West Bank into [...]

STEVE AMSEL – The Peace Train Won't be Stopping in Israel

By Steve Amsel • Oct 24th, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine

WRITTEN BY STEVE AMSEL
I am more disappointed in the fact that Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) accepted the invitation to perform in Israel than the fact that he was denied entry, on ’security grounds’.
I am even more disappointed that Mercedes Sousa accepted the invitation as well and is here at the moment to perform. This, despite [...]

Song for "Israel's" Birthday "Do they know it's Apartheid?"

By Mary Rizzo • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Grassroots Activism, Israel, Zionism

Dave at Israel's 60th Birthday came upon an interesting scoop. Trevor Horn (ex Buggles, ex Yes) is promoting a disc for the worst birthday party in the world. Dave has suggested lyrics for the new Band Aid turned Apartheid Aid CD. The rest is his post:
Anyone want to make our own youtube video to counter [...]

Open Letter by Haider Eid to Nadine Gordimer

By Mary Rizzo • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Nakba and Right of Return, Opinions and Letters, Palestine

Following is an edited open letter from Gaza lecturer Dr. Haider Eid
to Nobel Prize-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer…

I am a Palestinian lecturer in Cultural Studies living in Gaza. I happen to also have South African citizenship as a result of my marriage to a citizen of that beloved country. I spent more than five [...]