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Israeli Apartheid Week
Israel Is An Apartheid State
In our second op-ed for Israeli Apartheid Week, ALIE KOMAPE takes a look at how Israel’s racism and apartheid tactics oppress and violate not only Palestinians but black Jewish people living in Israel. The crime of apartheid is most often…
Ali Abunimah: Palestine Needs Global Solidarity To Overcome Its Apartheid
South Africans may not be a military superpower or an economic superpower in global terms but it is a moral superpower - and it has a responsibility to end the apartheid system that the Israeli government is using to govern the…
As Long As The Powerful Can Detain Life With Impunity All Freedom Is Fragile
International Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events that seek to raise awareness of Israel’s apartheid system over the Palestinian people and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions…
Empire Files: 10 Shocking Ways Israel Mistreats Africans
The Zionist state is not only about the creation of a Jewish state but also about creating a white supremacist state. Notwithstanding their vile treatment of the Arab Palestinians, Israel is guilty of atrocities against African people as…
Maytha Alhassen And Natalia Molebatsi On Afro-Palestinian Solidarity
“We have to speak about our solidarity with the people of Palestine. It is urgent and it is important,” South African poet and writer Natalia Molebatsi said in a Facebook live interview with The Daily Vox on Thursday, 01 March. We sat down…
The SA and Israeli governments are closer than you may think
Civil society group Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions-South Africa (BDS-SA) had strong words for the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) this week after pictures emerged of a Dirco official giving the departing…
UCT, decolonisation and the academic boycott of Israel
UCT's Palestine Solidarity Forum explains the place the unjust occupation of Palestine holds in global structures of oppression, and why it is so important for academic institutions to take a stand. Haunted by the shadow of Rhodes’ statue,…
‘I wish I could shut up but I can’t and I won’t’
Among the thousands of fans reveling in the musical stylings of rock band Radiohead in Glasgow last Friday was an unusual sight, one that is not typically seen in open stadium concerts. A sea of Palestinian flags were raised and remained…
Condemning Wits anti-Semitism isn’t enough – there must be consequences
The response to the open display of anti-Semitism at Wits on Thursday severely lacked conviction. http://www.thedailyvox.co.za/student-groups-condemn-goose-step-hitler-salute-wits/ While the Wits Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC),…
Student groups condemn goose-step, Hitler salute at Wits
A Wits University student was filmed on Thursday performing a goose-step and Nazi strong-arm salute on campus. This comes at the end of the Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) activities on campus, which began on Monday, 6 March. The goose-step…
Five must-reads on the daily struggles in Palestine
A lot of the stories coming out of Palestine seem to be historical accounts of the conflict without an in-depth look at the people behind the stories. While the facts are very important, especially in the case of the conflict happening in…
Give resistance wings: opposing the whitewashing of Israel’s racism and anti-blackness
International Israeli Apartheid Week is once again upon us, and civil society organisations around the world are displaying solidarity with the Palestinian people, who struggle against an apartheid system of occupation, systematic…
The contradictions of an Israeli Wonder Woman
"This is what a Zionist looks like."
Judaism and Zionism: What is the difference?
A central point of contention during #IsraeliApartheidWeek is the allegation that being anti-Zionist means one is necessarily anti-Semitic. While there are no doubt examples where one may be both, it’s unclear whether, and how, the two are…
Tensions mark the beginning of Israeli Apartheid Week at Wits
There were scuffles and heated exchanges at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) on Monday as Israeli Apartheid Week 2017 began. Punches were thrown and there was clear tension between students who support Palestine and those who…
WATCH: South African apartheid vs Israeli apartheid
Israeli Apartheid Week 2017 is taking place from 5-11 March this year, and as always, it's sure to be lit. That's mostly because people feel very strongly about which side of the fence (or wall) they sit on when it comes to Israel and…
From Latin America to South Africa: it’s time for effective solidarity towards Palestine
As the world gears up for Israeli Apartheid Week 2017, Pedro Ferraracio Charbel says that Israel continues to enact violence in Latin America, and South Africans and Latin Americans should stand together to oppose Israel's continued…
Maimane on ‘fascinating’ trip to Israel while ambassador punts on SA government radio
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane is currently on a low-key visit to Israel, going against presidential orders discouraging travel to Israel. Excellent @IsraeliPM-@MmusiMaimane meeting yesterday in Jerusalem. So much for #Israel…
Are comparisons of South African apartheid and Israel useful?
JON SOSKE and SEAN JACOBS reflect on the utility of comparisons between Israel and apartheid South Africa. The South African Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee has a habit of speaking in rhetoricals. The effect, however, is that he makes his…
30 things you need to know about the Palestine-Israel conflict
There is no shortage of debate around the semantics of the Palestine-Israel conflict. SELIN KARA, a British-born human rights activist, put together this useful 30-point list to explain the conflict in simple terms. 1. It’s not a conflict.…