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BA Report Nov 22, 2012 — Is Israeli Apartheid OK? Susan Rice & Humanitarian Intervention
21 November 2012 — Black Agenda Report
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Apartheid never died in South Africa. It inspired a world order upheld by force and illusion By John Pilger
19 September 2012 — John Pilger
The murder of 34 miners by the class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>South African police, most of them shot in the back, puts paid to the illusion of post-apartheid democracy and illuminates the new worldwide apartheid of which class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>South class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Africa is both an historic and contemporary model.
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Marikana, where the ANC’s chickens came home to roost By William Bowles
26 August 2012 — williambowles.info
The African National Congress (ANC) won a resounding victory in South Africa‘s first democratic election in 1994 with a host of promises that it would improve the lives of the Black majority (85% of the population). And whilst there have been gains in some areas, overall, most Black South Africans are materially worse off now than they were under Apartheid.
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South Africa’s ‘Reconstruction and Development Programme’
20 August 2012
It didn’t advocate socialism but it was at least an attempt to begin to redress the evils of Apartheid Capitalism. Dumped of course, in its entirety by the ANC government once they got elected but still well worth reading especially in the light of the events at Marikana this past week.
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JERUSALEM POST: Israeli Gov. dispatches PR envoy to “fight” IAW
20 February 2012 — BDS SOUTH AFRICA
Yesterday it was announced that the Israeli Ministry of Public Diplomacy would dispatch “envoys” around the world in an attempt to undermine the upcoming plans for Israeli Apartheid Week (starting today, 20 February, in some places).
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IPS News 12 December 2011: Agreement for New Global Treaty To Reduce Emissions
12 December 20911 — IPS
Agreement for New Global Treaty To Reduce Emissions
By Stephen Leahy
DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 11 (IPS) ? The world is increasingly committed to dangerous levels of global warming with yet another failure by nations of the world to agree to needed reductions in carbon emissions here in Durban. However, as the 17th Conference of Parties ended early Sunday morning, members did agree to talk about a new global treaty to reduce emissions. Continue Reading
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PALESTINIAN FREEDOM RIDERS to Board Settler Buses to Jerusalem
14 November, 2011 — PALESTINIAN FREEDOM RIDERS
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Palestinian activists will attempt to peacefully board segregated Israeli public transportation in the occupied West Bank to travel to East Jerusalem in action reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Rides to the U.S. South
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Jabu Khanyile & Bayete – ‘Mmalo-We’
9 November 2011
The late, great Jabu Khanyile and Bayete, one of the best groups to emerge in the late 1980s-90s. Beautiful music. This track from the album of the same name, 1993. Also from the same album, ‘Thabo’ became an unofficial ‘anthem’ of the anti-Apartheid struggle, and is an all-time favourite of mine.
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South African media watchdog says Israel can be called an apartheid state
5 July 2011 — SA Artists Against Apartheid
This afternoon, in a bold ruling defending the right to freedom of expression and political speech, the South African media watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), unequivocally dismissed all complaints relating to a radio advert that calls for the boycott of Israel and compares Israel to Apartheid South Africa.
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From Copenhagen and Cancun to Bonn and Durban, Climate Meetings are Conferences of Polluters By Patrick Bond
4 July 2011 — Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 523
Judging by what transpired at the global climate negotiations in the former West German capital, Bonn, it appears certain that in just over five months’ time, the South African port city of Durban will host a conference of climate procrastinators, the COP17 (Conference of Parties), dooming the Earth to the frying pan. Further inaction on climate change will leave our city’s name as infamous for elite incompetence and political betrayal as is Oslo‘s in the Middle East.
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Apartheid, Sand Nigger Style: The Tunisian Model for a New Colonialism in Libya? By Nathaniel X. Turner
8 June 2011 — Black Agenda Report
‘One only has to visit Tunisia and Libya and see the difference between the people of both nations.’
Tripoli, Libya – The Great White Fathers of Europe and the United States excel in lies, lies and damnable lies. ‘’Humanitarian intervention’ by Europeans in Africa is always a subterfuge for theft, mass murder, and sadism’ – Europe’s main export to the world. ‘This is a new scramble for the African Continent.’
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Black Agenda Report 8 June 2011: Fake Prison Reform – The Real Deal on Libya – Obama’s Black Critics
8 June 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left
What Fake Reform of the Prison State Looks Like: Georgia’s Criminal Justice Reform Commission
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
In Georgia, where prisoners staged a brief and courageous strike for their human rights last December, the state’s new governor is talking “prison reform.” But the vision of Georgia’s new commission on criminal justice reform seems to be less about healing the wounds caused by racist hyper-incarceration than saving the state money. What kind of “prison reform” does that lead to?
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Gaza: A View From the Ground A South African Perspective By Patrick Bond
8 June 2011 — The Bullet – Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 514
Here in Palestine, disgust expressed by civil society reformers about Barack Obama’s May 19 policy speech on the Middle East and North Africa confirms that political reconciliation between Washington and fast-rising Arab democrats is impossible.
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Israeli Officials and History Affirm the Power of BDS
18 May 2011 – U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
By Anna Baltzer, National Organizer, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Are boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) proving effective at isolating Israel as a form of pressure to end its violations of Palestinian rights? We at the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation think so, but you don’t have to take our word for it.
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IF THIS IS NOT APARTHEID, THEN WHAT IS? By Allan Boesak and Farid Esack*
10 November 2010 — PACBI
In the opening lines of an open letter to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Rabbi Warren Goldstein, leader of the South Africa’s Orthodox Jews, makes a plea that: ”Without truth there can be no justice, and without justice there can be no peace.” If ever there was a case of a single swallow not heralding summer, alas, this is it. The rest of his article bears little relationship to the truth:
1. “Jew and Arab – are equal before the law.”
Goldstein conflates life inside Israel and life in the occupied territories. Jews and Palestinian citizens in Israel are certainly not equal before the law: one set of laws does provide for equal rights, but another equally formidable set provides for separate and superior rights for Jews. Presently Israel has several Basic Laws that confirm this inequality, so the system is codified and formal: discrimination within Israel is official. A state founded for any ethnic or religious community cannot but be one that must necessarily discriminate against others. In the occupied Palestinian territories, Jews enjoy special protections and rights to settle and conduct business, and Palestinian civilians as non-Jews are denied those rights.
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BDS: Boycotting Apartheid By Eric Walberg
21 September, 2010 — Eric Walberg
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign moves ahead in Washington, California, British Columbia, Harvard and Brown Universities, and the Netherlands, notes Eric Walberg
In July, in Rachel Corrie’s hometown of Olympia, Washington state, the popular Food Co-op announced that no Israeli products would be sold at its two grocery stores. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a principal endorser of this new Israel Divestment Campaign, issued a statement endorsing the boycott. “The Olympia Food Co-op has joined a growing worldwide movement on the part of citizens and the private sector to support by non-violent tangible acts the Palestinian struggle for justice and self-determination.”
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Israel/Palestine and the Apartheid Analogy: by Ran Greenstein Part 2
16 September, 2010 — MRZine
Critics, Apologists and Strategic Lessons (Part 2)
I. Apartheid of a Special Type
In the previous section I made a distinction between historical apartheid (unique to South Africa) and apartheid in its generic form — a structured system of political exclusion and social marginalization on the basis of origins (including but not restricted to race). I concluded that Israel is different from historical apartheid, but it displays characteristics that allow us to define it as a form of generic apartheid. There is a family resemblance between the two regimes. This applies to Israel in an extended sense, covering ‘Israel proper’ in its pre-1967 boundaries, ‘Greater Israel’ with the occupied Palestinian territories, and ‘Greater Palestine’ with the 1948 Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
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Israel/Palestine and the Apartheid Analogy by Ran Greenstein Part 1
22 August, 2010 — MRZine
Critics, Apologists and Strategic lessons (Part 1)
I. Introduction
In the last decade, the notion that the Israeli system of political and military control bears strong resemblance to the apartheid system in South Africa has gained ground. It is invoked regularly by movements and activists opposed to the 1967 occupation and to various other aspects of Israeli policies vis-à-vis the Palestinian-Arab people. It is denounced regularly by official Israeli spokespersons and unofficial apologists. The more empirical and theoretical discussion of the nature of the respective regimes and their historical trajectories has become marginalized in the process. Only a few studies pursue such comparison with any analytical rigour.1
There are three crucial distinctions we must make in order to address the issue properly and avoid the usual conceptual and political muddle that afflict the debate:
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IS ISRAEL AN APARTHEID STATE?
17 August, 2010 — The Real News Network
Journalist Jonathan Cook and Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard on apartheid & Israel
Renowned Nezareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook says not only is Israel’s control of the West Bank based on an apartheid system of segregation but also the system inside Israel proper. One of the top Israeli human rights lawyers, Michael Sfard, disagrees. In a Tel Aviv interview with The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky he talks about his conclusion that Israeli control in the West Bank is now only moving towards an apartheid-like system based on the dual legal systems that Israeli settlers and Palestinians get subjected to. He describes that if an Israeli settler and a Palestinian were to be arrested for the same crime, they would be judged, investigated, and convicted in separate legal systems.
IS ISRAEL AN APARTHEID STATE?, posted with vodpod
Bio
Jonathan Cook is a British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. He has written for the Guardian, International Herald Tribune and Le Monde diplomatique among other publications, and is currently a correspondent for the Abu Dhabi-based National newspaper. He is the author of three books on the Israel-Palestine conflict, the latest being Disappearing Palestine.
Michael Sfard is one of the top Israeli human rights lawyers. His Tel Aviv-based practice represents many Israeli human rights groups and high profile rights cases. Most famous is his firm’s challenge of the separation wall annexing land from the West Bank village of Bil’in. A former conscientious objector, Sfard represents reservists and others who refuse to participate in the occupation of the Palestinian Territories.
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The Unspoken Alliance: Military and Nuclear Ties between Israel and Apartheid South Africa Sasha Polakow-Suransky Interviewed by Amy Goodman
26 May, 2010 — MRZine-Monthly Review
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Amy Goodman: As nuclear nonproliferation talks at the United Nations focus on the Middle East this week, we turn to new revelations about Israel’s nuclear weapons program and its close alliance with apartheid South Africa.
Israeli President Shimon Peres has denied reports that he offered to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa when he was defense minister in the ’70s. On Sunday, the Guardian newspaper of London published top-secret South African documents revealing that a secret meeting between then-defense minister Shimon Peres and his South African counterpart, P.W. Botha, ended with an offer by Peres for the sale of warheads, quote, “in three sizes.” The documents provide the first official written evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons, despite its policy of “ambiguity” in neither confirming nor denying their existence.
But the Israeli president’s office has categorically rejected the accusations in the report and released a statement saying, quote, “Israel has never negotiated the exchange of nuclear weapons with South Africa. There exists no Israeli document or Israeli signature on a document that such negotiations took place.”
Well, the documents published in the Guardian were first uncovered by senior editor at Foreign Affairs, Sasha Polakow-Suransky. He went through 7,000 pages of never-before-seen classified South African documents while researching his new book The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa.
For more on this story, we’re joined by Sasha himself. Sasha Polakow-Suransky joins us here.
Welcome to Democracy Now!
Sasha Polakow-Suransky: Hi. Thanks for having me.
Amy Goodman: Talk about these documents.
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MichaelKenny
If A offers 10 million euros to B to buy something A believes B has, but B ultimately does not sell the goods, that is not proof that B actually had the goods to sell in the first place! If Mr Polakow-Suransky produced proof that Israel didn’t have nuclear weapons, that would be interesting, and very damaging to Israel. But arguing that something that never happened is proof that they have such weapons smacks of the classic Israeli propaganda smoke screen on this matter. Moreover, does anybody really believe that the Israel Lobby would allow an American Jewish writer to publish a book “blowing” Israel’s greatest secret? Look what happened to Norman Finkelstein!