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Jenin: Resistance Spells Doom for Apartheid Israel & Illegal Occupation of Palestine by Iqbal Jassat

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According to Article 2 of the United Nation’s “Convention of the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide”, stipulates that the following acts, enlisted below, are genocide if they were done “with the intent to destroy, a whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group”:

1. Killing members of the group;

2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Exactly what we are witnessing in Jenin and all other parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) orchestrated by Benjamin Netanyahu and ultra-right-wing hawks in his racist cabinet.

Continue reading at https://crescent.icit-digital.org/articles/jenin-resistance-spells-doom-for-apartheid-israel-illegal-occupation-of-palestine

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The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) takes a stand against the ongoing attacks in Jenin on The Voice of the Cape

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Following the ongoing recent attacks on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, a vigil for Jenin was organized by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in Promenade, Sea Point, yesterday. The aim was to commemorate the cold-blooded genocide committed by the Israeli occupation forces who continue to launch airstrikes on innocent Palestinians.

… “We stand in solidarity with the Palestinians in their revolt against the despotic rule and tyranny of Apartheid Israel. The vigil is emblematic of the ongoing Nakba (catastrophic) and genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Apartheid Israel,” said [Usuf] Chikte.

Continue reading at https://www.vocfm.co.za/the-palestinian-solidarity-campaign-psc-takes-a-stand-against-the-ongoing-attacks-in-jenin/

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MP Mandela calls for charges to be brought by the ICC against Netanyahu on International Solidarity Movement

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We are appalled by this level of inhumanity and the ongoing crimes against humanity and call for immediate charges to be brought by the International Criminal Court against Netanyahu.

Apartheid Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands and its continued expansion of illegal settlements in violation of international law is the cause of these acts of brutality, ethnic cleansing and systematic genocide.

We call for justice for 2 year old Muhammad Tamimi and all Palestinian children being butchered by Apartheid Israel.

Continue watching at https://palsolidarity.org/2023/06/mp-mandela-calls-for-charges-to-be-brought-by-the-icc-against-netanyahu/

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“It is 75 years of agony, 75 years of killing and murder, 75 years of genocide” by Kouthar Sambo

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Once the crowd eventually arrived at Parliament, various political organizations, activists, and religious scholars addressed the crowd and delivered their speeches on the Israeli oppression and genocide committed against Palestinians on a daily basis. “It is 75 years of agony, 75 years of killing and murder, 75 years of genocide – so it’s not a once-off catastrophe, it’s been going on for 75 years,” says Director of Al-Quds Foundation of South Africa Sheikh Ebrahim Gabriels.

… National spokesperson of Al Jama-ah, advocate Shameemah Salie outlines the daily life of Palestinians living in the besieged Gaza Strip. “We talk about load-shedding in South Africa, in Gaza there is constant load-shedding, there is the constant difficulty of securing a basic right of water in Palestine, their homes are bombed, and their children are killed, there is a genocide and an ethnic cleansing that’s been happening for 75 years.” 

Continue watching at https://www.vocfm.co.za/it-is-75-years-of-agony-75-years-of-killing-and-murder-75-years-of-genocide/

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Al-Nakba 75: A Challenge to Defeat Colonizers of Palestine by Iqbal Jassat

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The tragedy that befell Palestine during the period leading up to 1948 and beyond, resulting in the displacement and dispossession of millions of Palestinians, is defined as Al-Nakba or “Catastrophe”. 75 years later, while atrocities against Palestinians continue unabated and with impunity, it is scandalous that some people see it fit to celebrate settler-colonialism which possesses hallmarks of genocide.

Continue reading at https://www.palestinechronicle.com/al-nakba-75-a-challenge-to-defeat-colonizers-of-palestine/

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NEHAWU condemns apartheid Israeli continued attacks on Gaza issued by General Secretary, Zola Sapheth

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The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] strongly condemns the continued violent attacks on Gaza by the Apartheid Israel military. The continued repression and genocide of innocent Palestinians must stop.

…Even though a truce was agreed upon on, the world can no longer be silent about the continued genocide of Palestinians by the Apartheid Israeli government. The people of Gaza live in constant fear. We have to stop Israel by boycotting all that the Israeli government uses to fund these inhumane attacks on the Palestinian people. We call on all trade unionists, all friendly countries to Boycott, Divestment and Sanction apartheid Israel.

Continue reading at https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/apartheid-israelis-continued-attacks-on-gaza-conde

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LETTER: Holocaust atrocities do not justify Israel’s attacks on Palestinians on Business Day

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Palestinians are merely following the example of Polish Jews during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, who so courageously resisted German Nazis. Israel’s recurring wars against the people of Gaza, including the currently termed Operation Breaking Dawn launched on August 5, clearly highlight the parallels between the Warsaw Ghetto and Gaza as an Israeli concentration camp. Allan Wolman’s repeated smears of everything South African ignore the reality that Israel is an apartheid state that is guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. 

Continue reading at https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2022-08-07-letter-holocaust-atrocities-do-not-justify-israels-attacks-on-palestinians/

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The National Union of Metalworkers spokesperson, Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, during the Global South rally launching the initiative in 2020, calls for #UNinvestigateApartheid on the BDS National Committee Twitter account

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“Ultimately I think this is the goal of this rally, is to mobilise the world, mobilise the globe, mobilise the working class, mobilise the masses to defend the people of Palestine. This is a moral and just war. No other position on the issue of Palestine is acceptable, quite frankly. Because if you’re going to support Israel, then you are supporting genocide, you are supporting racism, you are supporting ethnic cleansing.”

Continue watching at https://twitter.com/BDSmovement/status/1545002810441404421

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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.”

Continue reading at https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/3062441/royal-mandela-calls-intensification-trade-boycott-israel/

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Has AU Declared War On Member States by Granting Israel ‘Observer Status’? by Iqbal Jassat

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While the controversy rages on, it is important to remind AU member states to be mindful of their responsibility to adhere to various international conventions which Israel is in violation of. As a serial perpetrator, the Zionist entity is not only guilty of the crime of Apartheid; it stands accused of war crimes and incremental genocide.
International humanitarian law of occupation contains a prohibition against deporting or transferring parts of the civilian population of the Occupying Power into Occupied Territory. Such illegal transfers carried out by Israel are to alter the demographic composition of the population of the occupied territory…

Continue reading at https://www.palestinechronicle.com/has-au-declared-war-on-member-states-by-granting-israel-observer-status/