Johannesburg Shows Support For Palestine
May 15 marked the 70th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe) where over 700 000 Palestinian people were expelled from their land. It is the...
‘Expel Israeli Ambassador To SA’: How SA Responded To Gaza Killings
From March 30, Gazans launched a six-week campaign, the "Great March of Return". They were demanding the right of Palestinian refugees and their descendants...
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...
South African activist Leigh-Ann Naidoo among captured on Women’s Boat to...
Israeli forces have intercepted the Freedom Flotilla Women's Boat to Gaza, with South African academic, activist and beach volleyball Olympian Leigh-Ann Naidoo sending out...
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...
To Be Palestinian Is To Fight For Your Life – Mariam...
The events of the past few weeks which have left hundreds of Palestinians dead and thousands injured has left most of the world reeling....
Why the Palestine solidarity movement in South Africa has to evolve...
The Palestinian struggle has captured the imagination of black South Africans since the 1970s, but of late the movement has been gripped by a...
Four lessons from South Africa’s boycott movement for Palestine
Moral force and international pressure have been described by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu as two struggles which parallel the South African and Palestinian case...
From Libya to Israel, the African migrant faces a dire plight
From the shores of the continent to Europe and Israel, there is no group of people around the world who are more abused and...
Palestine could be taking a South African direction
The signs are there that the Israeli state may have ‘won’ the most recent battle against Palestinians but could be losing the protracted war,...
Why We Acknowledge The Students Who Refused To Stand For Israel’s...
Last week, two students at the Herzlia Middle School in Cape Town refused to stand for the Israeli national anthem during a graduation ceremony...
The Refugee Crisis In Lebanon: How You Can Help
The little country of Lebanon is sandwiched between Palestine and Syria. Both countries are plagued with turmoil. Since the Nakba in Palestine in 1948,...
Palestinian Academics Urge UCT To Support Boycott Of Israeli Academic Institutions
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Update: On Saturday, the UCT council declined to adopt the resolution of a full academic boycott of Israeli institutions, which was passed by the...
South African Muslim Activism Must Go Beyond Palestine
At a panel discussion on Tuesday hosted by the University of Cape Town Palestine Solidarity Forum, the issues of race, settler colonialism, and Palestine...
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...
The Gaza blockade in numbers: eight years under siege
Tomorrow, South Africa commemorates Youth Day. But 16 June also marks eight years since Israel’s tightening of blockades on Gaza. Crippling land, sea and...
Shashi Naidoo On Her Way To Palestine After Meeting BDS SA
We still don't understand why human rights and Palestinian solidarity organisation Boycott Divestment Sanctions South Africa (BDS SA) held a presser for Shashi Naidoo....
Calling Israel An Apartheid State Is Not A Matter Of Political...
In our last op-ed for #IsraeliApartheidWeek, MICHIA MONCHO looks at the tactics defenders of Israeli apartheid use to deny the horrible truth.
Following in a...
Protest As Praxis: the Instagram page trying to make a difference
Since Youth Month is upon us, it is the time of year to commemorate young people’s activism in South Africa. It is fitting to...
Richard Falk: UCT Must Take “Moral Stand” And Boycott Israeli Institutions
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Update: On Saturday, the UCT council declined to adopt the resolution of a full academic boycott of Israeli institutions, which was passed by the...
