15th May 2015 | Congress of South African Students | Welkom (Free State), South Africa On Nakba Day more than 10 000 South African School Learners March Against Woolworths over Israel Trade. More than 10 000 South African school learners protested earlier today ...
Read More »Official Release: “The New Black” by The Mavrix
13 March 2012 | Palestine Solidarity Alliance and PACBI In a first ever musical collaboration between South Africa and Palestine, South African band, The Mavrix, and Palestinian Oud player, Mohammed Omar, have released a music video called “The New Black”. The ...
Read More »Are Israel and apartheid South Africa really different?
Akiva Eldar | Haaretz 4 January 2010 The day after the murder of the settler Meir Hai about 10 days ago, Major General (res.) Amos Gilad was asked to comment on the claim by settlers that the attack was able ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom March activists target Egypt’s complicity
Sayed Dhansay | The Electronic Intifada 31 December 2009 It was another eventful day here in Cairo at the inaugural Gaza Freedom March (GFM). On Tuesday night, organizers informed the 1,362-strong delegation that only 100 of them had been selected ...
Read More »ICC may try IDF officer in wake of Goldstone Gaza report
Yotam Feldman | Ha’aretz 24 September 2009 A senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague said Monday that he is considering opening an investigation into whether Lt. Col. David Benjamin, an Israel Defense Forces reserve officer, allowed ...
Read More »Why is South Africa still helping apartheid Israel?
Sayed Dhansay | Electronic Intifada 21 July 2009 A few weeks ago I departed from South Africa for the Gaza Strip in order to take up a short-term voluntary post with a humanitarian organization there. As the Rafah border crossing ...
Read More »South African dock workers union decides not to offload Israeli ship
Congress of South African Trade Unions In a historic development for South Africa, South African dock workers have announced their determination not to offload a ship from Israel that is scheduled to dock in Durban on Sunday, 8 February 2009. ...
Read More »SAPA: Workers to boycott Israeli ship
Durban dock workers are expected to refuse to off-load an Israeli ship as part of a week of action against “apartheid” Israel, Cosatu and the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) said on Tuesday. Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven and PSC spokesperson Salim ...
Read More »Israel 2007: Worse than Apartheid
by Ronnie Kasrils | Mail & Guardian Travelling into Palestine’s West Bank and Gaza Strip, which I visited recently, is like a surreal trip back into an apartheid state of emergency. It is chilling to pass through the myriad checkpoints ...
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