Tag: BDS
Trump Has Given Israel Immunity to International Law
Why in an allegedly free country has President Trump imposed censorship that protects Israel from accountability?
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The Africa-Palestine Conference: Why South Africa Must Lead the Way
While South Africans are ready to take their solidarity with Palestine to a whole new level, politicians are willing to betray their shared values.
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On Taking Controversial Public Positions: A Reflection
I can no more turn away from the Palestinians than those closest to me. It would represent a tear in the fabric of the life and love I have lived and affirmed.
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A Question Every American Must Confront: Apartheid Israel or US Democracy?
Texas’s requirement that state employees pledge not to boycott businesses operating in illegally built Israeli settlements is contrary to international law.
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The Tide is Turning: Israel Is Losing on Two War Fronts
Israel’s ‘war-chest’ will run dry in the end, just as no amount of money could have saved the racist, Apartheid regime in South Africa.
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Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations
Solidarity with the Palestinians’ struggle for freedom from oppression is growing, and Zionists’ intimidation tactics such as the charge of ‘anti-Semitism’ for criticizing Israel’s crimes are no longer having the silencing effect they’ve had in the past.
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Review of Richard Falk’s “Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace”
In “Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace”, Richard Falk emphasizes the present need “to take stock, and reformulate a vision and strategy to guide the Palestinian struggle”. The book is an invaluable contribution precisely because it goes so far in doing just that.
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The Two-State Solution vs. the ‘Peace Process’, and Why the Distinction Is Critical
To seize the present opportunity, one-state advocates need to stop mistaking the two-state solution with the goal of the US-led so-called “peace process”.
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‘The Two-State Solution’ and the Banality of Evil: Language Entrapment or Political Malevolence?
The world’s governments continue to endorse the ‘two-state solution’ while civil society observers realize that Israel is adamant in its refusal to allow an independent Palestinian state to feels no pressure from the US to change course.
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Illegitimate Public Purpose: Conflict of Interest and the Anti-BDS Campaign
US lawmakers have adopted anti-BDS resolutions while accepting travel gifts to Israel from a pro-Israel lobby.
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Parallel Universes: Vietnam and Palestine
Empowering and charismatic resilience is the core identity of the Vietnamese and the Palestinian people, their point of most profound convergence.
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13 Questions about the Origins, Objectives and War on BDS
BDS has grown to be a major platform to facilitate solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle against Israel’s oppressive occupation regime.
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‘The Palestine Exception’: War on BDS is now a War on American Democracy
The US government’s war on the BDS movement is not only prejudicial to Palestinians’ rights, but now also poses a threat to Americans’ liberty.
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The Hunger Strike and Gaza: Two Sides of the Palestinian Coin
The hunger strike awakened the Palestinian population to the imperative of manifesting resistance as an alternative to despair and submission.
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The Next Phase in the War on BDS: Why Israel Detained Omar Barghouti
The more Israel tries to disrupt the work of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), the more it legitimizes the movement.
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Less Symbolism, More Action: Towards Meaningful Solidarity with Palestine
For the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People to be truly meaningful, it must be reclaimed by Palestinians.
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Punishing the Messenger: Israel’s War on NGOs Takes a Worrying Turn
With little or no accountability, Israel will continue targeting NGOs, threatening activists, and restricting the work of anyone that dares to be critical.
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Smearing BDS Supporters
That Israel and Zionist hardliners should be opposing BDS by an ugly smear campaign exposes the illegitimacy of its policies and practices.
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Zionism, Anti-Semitism, BDS, and the United Nations
The deadly dance between Zionism and the UN has now come full circle.
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A Review of the Documentary Film ‘Roadmap to Apartheid’
South Africa demonstrates that BDS is a valid method to counter occupation and oppression and can provide a peaceful means of resolution to the conflict.
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