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Royal House of Mandela calls for intensification of trade relations boycott with Israel on The Citizen
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“We call on all producers and exporters of perishable food products to boycott Apartheid Israel as long as the regime continues its occupation of Palestinian lands and the perpetration of crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and genocide. As South Africans we cannot be party to supporting Apartheid and the gross violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people.”
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Under Apartheid – Hello from Gaza by Aya Al-Ghazzawi
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Many Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights organisations have described Israel’s policies against Palestinians as apartheid, the latest of which was Amnesty International. Their new report documents the crimes perpetrated by Israel, along with strong and highly valued legal analysis. But many of us here would say that what we suffer in Gaza goes beyond being just a Bantustan. Many would say we live in something that feels like a slow genocide. We have been enduring crimes against humanity for decades. I worry our suffering is being normalised. We need global solidarity and mass mobilisation more than ever. We need more people who believe in human rights for all to speak out. We need to build an international anti-apartheid movement all over again.
Continue reading at https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/campaigns-blog/under-apartheid-hello-gaza
South African MP, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, denounces Israel’s crimes, genocide, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, at the Pan African anti-apartheid Conference in Senegal by Nkosi Mandla Mandela
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We believe that the struggle for Palestine has reached such a critical point, with six million Palestinians in exile struggling for their right of return, thousands of political prisoners languishing in jails, many without trial or access to justice. The unabated expansion of illegal apartheid settlements on Palestinian lands, in defiance of international law, and the daily demolitions of homes in Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, the south Hebron hills, and many parts of occupied West Bank. Apartheid Israel continues to pursue its evil program of war crimes, genocide, and ethnic cleansing, against humanity.
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Palestinian resistance is forcing liberals to see Israel’s apartheid from Ali Abunimah
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It’s important that Amnesty has come out and recognised apartheid, but in another article we published at the Electronic Intifada today, by my colleague Maureen Murphy, she points out that although the Amnesty report is really useful, and is really a watershed in terms of international advocacy. And Amnesty goes much further than Human Rights Watch, and B’Tselem, and others in terms of its recommendations. Even then, this report falls short by failing to recognise the settler-colonial context of the Zionist project in Palestine. And settler colonialism is ultimately genocidal. Because, as Maureen writes, the Zionist settlers did not come from Europe with the intent to dominate and persecute Palestinians, and establish an apartheid regime. They came with the intent to take their land and remove them.
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On Haaretz: Can Settler Colonialism Be Liberal and Apartheid Be Progressive? by Ilan Pappe
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Even the worst atrocity can be tolerated and explained, if it is de-contextualized – namely is not related to an ideology – and, thus, the discreet dots of Israeli criminality are not connected together to provide the full and truthful picture of the real intent of the settler-colonial project of Zionism that will not end until it is stopped – which is to eliminate the Palestinians and Palestine. I am sure we all understand that elimination can take more than one form: it could be genocide, it could be incremental ethnic cleansing, sieges, closures, blockades and starvation, as well the erasure of heritage, history and culture. It can take place in dramatic operations or on a daily basis and can be directed towards the individual or the society, as a whole.
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Beyond apartheid by Caroline Debnam
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As the word “apartheid” grows in popularity to describe Israeli oppression of Palestinians it is helpful to revisit another concept defined in the mid 20th century: genocide.
Continue reading at https://mondoweiss.net/2021/11/beyond-apartheid/
LETTER: Two apartheid states and their crises of legitimacy by Gunvant Govindjee on Business Day
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In 1948, Zionists proclaimed the settler-colonial state of Israel which too, as in the case of the Union of SA, received de jure recognition despite the fact that it was created as a result of the dispossession and mass expulsion of the indigenous population. However, Israel’s brutal occupation of the West Bank, its merciless siege of Gaza, its continued theft of Palestinian land and water resources, its settlement construction, its large-scale detention and imprisonment of Palestinians, and its practice of “incremental genocide” (a term used by a Jewish and non-Zionist academic, Ilan Pappe), continue to erode support for Israel and thus its legitimacy.
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Apartheid is a Crime: Portraits of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine by Mats Svensson, Reviewed by Charles Villa-Vicencio
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Whilst South Africa gave the word “apartheid” to institutionalized racism, international law indicates that the Israeli government’s conduct toward Palestinians meets the legal definition of apartheid, as well as the definitions of genocide and war crimes in terms of articles six, seven and eight of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Continue reading at https://www.wrmea.org/middle-east-books-and-more/apartheid-is-a-crime-portraits-of-the-israeli-occupation-of-palestine.html
LETTER: Palestine campaign is no more antisemitic than Black Sash was anti-white by Terry Crawford-Browne
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While the term “apartheid” originated in SA it now also applies under international law to other countries, such as Israel, that systematically discriminate against Palestinians. The Israeli government is also guilty of genocide and war crimes as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which all European governments, as well as our own, are obligated to enforce.
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