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  1. The Academic Boycott Debate
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    An excellent summary and commentary on a debate at Ryerson University about whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott because of its human rights violations.
  2. Address by President Nelson Mandela at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    It behoves all South Africans, themselves erstwhile beneficiaries of generous international support, to stand up and be counted among those contributing actively to the cause of freedom and justice. All of us need to do more in supporting the struggle of the people of Palestine for self-determination; in supporting the quest for peace, security and friendship in this region.
  3. Boycott Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    It is clear to me that the only way to counter the apartheid trend in Israel is through massive international pressure.
  4. The Call for Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment Against Israeli Apartheid
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Boycott Factsheet.
  5. Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    A call for sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.
  6. The Case Against Israel
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
  7. ChestDoc in Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
  8. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  9. Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
    Organization profile published 2007

    Resource Type: Organization
    Believes that Israel is an apartheid state that resembles South African Apartheid and that justice will not be achieved without equal rights for everyone in the region, regardless of religion, ethnicity or nationality.
  10. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
  11. Counter-Rhetoric 
    Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security’ argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantra’s and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
  12. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
  13. A Country Of Sacred Cows And Ten Commandments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    It's high time that Israel must understand that criticizing Israeli government's foreign policy for assassinating people or for shooting children, is by no way Anti-Semitic, it's just being humane.
  14. Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
    The End of Free Speech?

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. The Lobby is working to ban as anti-Semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world.
  15. Criticism not disloyal
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Support for Palestinian rights thus need not come at the expense of concern for Israelis – in fact, advocating changes to Israeli policies that perpetuate war, anger, and resistance is the truest promotion of Israelis’ well-being.
  16. Do I Divest? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
  17. Education gap divides Jerusalem
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A recent report by an Israeli non-governmental organisation says 5,000 Palestinian children in East Jerusalem will not be able to attend classes this year because there are not enough classrooms.
  18. Electronic Intifada
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. News, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective.
  19. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Israel historian Ilan Pappe recounts the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
  20. Five years of illegality
    Time to dismantle the Wall and respect the rights of Palestinians

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Oxfam International presents testimonies of Palestinian men and women who recount their daily problems, arising from the construction of Israel's illegal Wall and its associated regime of land confiscation and permits, and settlement construction.
  21. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
  22. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression – they are for it ‘in principle’, but only so long as it isn’t used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
  23. Gaza 2009: De-Osloizing the Palestinian Mind
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The lesson we learn from Gaza 2009 is to harness all effort to fight the outcome of the Oslo Accords, and to form a United Front on a platform of resistance and reforms. This cannot be achieved without dismantling the PA and realizing that ministries, premierships, and presidencies in Gaza and Ramalah are a façade not unlike the South African Independent Homelands with their tribal chiefs. The classical national program, created and adopted by the Palestinian bourgeoisie has reached its end unsuccessfully.
  24. How low will Israel stoop to win the propaganda war?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israel Project’s training manual is an unpleasant piece of work. It recycles many of the discredited techniques used by the advertising industry. And it serves to undermine with clever words the inalienable rights pledged by the UN and the world’s civilized nations to all peoples, including the Palestinians.
  25. How to Deal with The Lobby: The De-Zionization of the American Mind
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby.
  26. How to really fight anti-Semitism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
  27. In Hebron, a South African Compares Israeli Occupation to Apartheid
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Israelis have generally blinded themselves to the apartheid in the back yard because if they did acknowledge it they would have to do something. This complacent blindering recalls the American south during the civil rights movement, or the founding fathers during slavery.
  28. The Iron Cage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
  29. Israel and apartheid: A fair comparison?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The comparison between Israel's policies toward the Palestinians and to apartheid is a legitimate part of that debate and this is an analogy frequently used by Israelis and also by South Africans.
  30. Israel: Boycott, divest, sanction 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
  31. Israel boycott may be the way to peace
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    The non-violent international response to apartheid was a campaign of boycott, divestment and UN-imposed sanctions which enabled the regime to change without bloodshed. We should try to follow the same route to a just peace.
  32. Israel is an apartheid state and that is why they are losing legitimacy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Israel is losing legitimacy in the world because of what their government is doing to the Palestinians, not because of anti-semitism.
  33. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  34. Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1994
    If Jews in France were required to carry identification cards designating them Jews, could not acquire land or buy or rent homes in most of the country, were not eligible for service in the armed forces, and French law banned any political party or legislation calling for equal rights for Jews, would France be widely praised in the United States as a “symbol of human decency” and paragon of democracy?
  35. Israeli refusers follow South African footsteps in the struggle against apartheid
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Shministim are conscientious objectors. We are Israeli high-school graduates who refuse conscription into the military, and are repeatedly imprisoned as a result. We will not take part of the occupation of another people, the Palestinians, particularly when doing so goes against human values and cannot be explained on grounds of security.
  36. Israel's Apartheid
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Blacks in South Africa never faced a 20-foot wall dividing their communities. Palestinians' land is still being seized, their orchards bulldozed.
  37. Israel's approved ethnic cleansing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Israel's treatment of the Palestinians has always presented a moral problem to the West, as that treatment has violated every law and moral standard on the books.
  38. Israel's Arab Women Workers Need Not Apply
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israel’s private sector is almost entirely closed to Arab women because of discriminatory practices by employers.
  39. Israel's New Strategy: "Sabotage" And "Attack" The Global Justice Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Reut's analysis vindicates the effectiveness of the Boycot Divestment Sanctions strategy. As Israeli elites increasingly fear for the long-term prospects of the Zionist project they are likely to be more ruthless, unscrupulous and desperate than ever.
  40. Israel’s School Apartheid Highlighted By Court Case
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Instances of Arab children being denied places at kindergartens and junior schools have become more common in recent years. Now, an Arab couple whose daughter was expelled from an Israeli daycare centre on her first day because she was Arab is taking the case to court.
  41. The Last Refuge
    Neve Gordon and the Boycott of Israel

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of the occupation is to take concrete means that will make the Israelis understand that the injustice they are perpetrating comes with a price tag.
  42. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
  43. The lessons we have learned
    Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
  44. Married to Another Man
    Israel's Dilemma in Palestine

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Karmi argues that Israel has never been able to solve the original and unresolved Zionist quandary of how to create and maintain a Jewish state in a land inhabited by another people. She maintains that the problem is unsoluble and that the only solution is a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians are equal.
  45. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
  46. Not In My Name
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A predominantly Jewish organization committed to a peaceful and just resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, one that will provide safety, security and freedom for Jews, Palestinians, and all others living in this region. Believes that such a peace can only be achieved when Israel withdraws from its settlements in the Palestinian territories and addresses the legitimate national and human rights of the Palestinian people.
  47. Occupation 101
    Voices of the Silenced Majority

    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  48. Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corporations for building illegal settlements.
  49. The Other Side of Israel
    My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Explores the unequal treatment of Palestinians living in Israel as "citizens", but as second-class citizens in a theocratic state that discriminates against Arabs in many ways.
  50. Overcoming Zionism 
    Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a 'state-sponsored racism' fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. Only a path toward a single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East. Kovel draws on his detailed knowledge of the Middle East to show that Zionism and democracy are essentially incompatible. Ultimately, Kovel argues, a two-state solution is essentially hopeless as it concedes too much to the regressive forces of nationalism, in which lie the roots of continued conflict.
  51. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
  52. Palestinian Women Suffer as Israel Violates CEDAW
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
  53. Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is emerging as one of the most important ways to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine.
  54. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
  55. Radical Digressions 6
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2009
  56. A Reply to B’nai Brith’s Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario’s Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
  57. Revisiting the partition of Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Henry Lowi calls on honest, realistic and pragmatic peace activists the world over to expose partition, protest against it and propose an alternative solution to the question of Palestine.
  58. Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It’s Time
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation.
  59. Sanctions on Israel: If not now, when?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    How much longer are we prepared to watch Lebanon and Palestine burn, before we act?
  60. Seeds of Peace
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    Jawdat Talousy worked in a Jewish Settlement located on the West Bank. He was fired because he established a labour committee in order to get equal labour rights as Israeli co-workers.
  61. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
  62. Spain Excludes Settlement University from Academic Competition
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The "University Center of Ariel in Samaria" (AUCS) has been excluded from a prestigious university competition about sustainable architecture in Spain. With this move, Spain joins the growing number of European governments taking effective, even though preliminary, steps to uphold international law by boycotting or divesting from institutions and corporations involved in or profiting from Israel's illegal Wall and colonial settlements built on occupied Palestinian land.
  63. Statement of the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain Regarding Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    To increase the pressure for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories, and the removal of the separation wall and the illegal settlements, we will support a boycott (where trade union members should not put their own jobs at risk by refusing to deal with such products) of those goods and agricultural products that originate in illegal settlements -through developing an effective, targeted consumer-led boycott campaign working closely with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign -and campaign for disinvestment by companies associated with the occupation.
  64. Stop the Wall
    Organization profile published 2007

    Resource Type: Organization
    Site of the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign.
  65. Strip-Searching Children
    Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
  66. Support CUPE-Ontario's Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  67. The Tactic of Calling People Anti-Semitic
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Instead of calling people who criticize Israel and US policy towards it anti-Semitic, a morally committed response would be to face up to the reality of the situation in Israel/Palestine and do our best to remedy it.
  68. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
  69. Time for a New Divestment Campaign
    From South Africa to Israel

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    We must see Israel with the same eyes as we saw South Africa in the apartheid years – as a racist nation deserving of international isolation and sanctions.
  70. Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival’s decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine.
  71. Truth Against Truth
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    Challenges the myths, conventional lies, and historical falsehoods on which most of the arguments of both Israeli and Palestinian propaganda rest. The truths of both sides are intertwined into one historical narrative that does justice to both. Without this common basis, peace is impossible.
  72. A turning point for the US solidarity movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    We have learned that change will not come from above. It will and must come from the grassroots, the people, those who have nothing to lose but their prison walls, the daily humiliation of life as a refugee, a second- or third-class citizen, or a non-citizen.
  73. "Two State Solution" Equals Racism
    Palestinians and Jews CAN Live Peacefully as Equals in One Democratic State

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The mutual fear and distrust between Jews and non-Jews in Palestine today is no more innate to these people than the belief in anti-black stereotypes so widely accepted by white Americans in the past was innate to white people. The animosity between Palestinians and Israeli Jews was deliberately fomented by Israeli Zionist leaders with the help of British and American leaders for decades. It was not the presence of Jews in Palestine, per se, that angered the native Palestinians; rather it was the intention (and then the reality) of Zionists removing non-Jews from their homeland to turn most of it into an exclusively Jewish state.
  74. Veolia tries to bail out of one apartheid project, two to go!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    In 2005, just after the publication of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, Palestinians began calling for an international boycott campaign against Veolia, a company involved in the Citypass Consortium, a scheme to build a tramline on occupied territory in the West Bank. Veolia is a huge multinational, that arguably has the biggest financial commitment of any international company to Israel's colonisation of the West Bank.
  75. The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
    Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
  76. The Wall Must Fall
    End the Occupation and Violence in Israel-Palestine

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2007
    A resource for interested union and community members featuring voices from the Israeli and Palestinian peace movements often shut out of the mainstream media. By highlighting the progressive peace movement, The Wall Must Fall demonstrates that this issue is not a Jewish vs. Palestinian one, but one of basic human rights.
  77. We must speak out 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel.
  78. West Bank land belongs to Jews says Israeli judge
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Major Adrian Agassi is a senior Israeli judge who first served in the legal department that oversaw the confiscation of land in the West Bank to build Jewish settlements and was then appointed to the military court that decides -- and almost always denies -- Palestinian appeals against the seizure of their property, and that also rules on legal disputes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians. Judge Agassi maintains that people like himself, a Jew born in Britain, have more right to live in Palestine than people who were born there. He denies, however, that his beliefs affect his ability to make fair and impartial rulings.
  79. Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    If singling out South Africa for an international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid regime.
  80. Why Israel Won't Survive
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power – Western support and complicity – is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
  81. Why Israel? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    A routine strategy of Israel’s defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of “humanitarian interventions” that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council – sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
  82. Why Not Sanctions for Israel?
    Gross Violations of Human Rights

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The US led the imposition of sanctions against South Africa because of South Africa’s apartheid practices. The sanctions forced the white government to hand over political power to the black population. Israel practices a worse form of apartheid than did the white South African government. Yet, Israel maintains that it is “anti-semitic” to criticize Israel for a practice that the world regards as abhorrent.
  83. Yes to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel
    An Answer to Uri Avnery

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The BDS campaign was initiated by a broad coalition of Palestinian political and social movements. No Israeli who claims to support the national rights of the Palestinian people can, decently, turns his or her back to that campaign: after having claimed for years that "armed struggle is not the way," it will be outrageous that this BDS strategy will too be disqualified by those Israeli activists. On the contrary, we must all together join to "Boycott from Within" in order to provide Israeli support to this Palestinian initiative. It is the minimum we can do, and it is the minimum we should do.

Experts on Israeli Apartheid (Hafrada) in the Sources Directory

  1. Connexions Library/Archive
  2. Electronic Intifada
  3. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights



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