March 2011
14 posts
Palestine and the Egyptian revolution: a view from...
Radical change in Egypt should mean radical change in Palestine as well: a pro-Palestine Egypt should mean the end of the siege. But when will we see that? Is it too much to ask? Do we have to “understand” the difficulties the new rulers of Egypt have to deal with, while we are starving and still besieged in Gaza? If this is the case, why do we, Palestinians of Gaza, have to pay the...
Palestina: BDS: University of Johannesburg becomes... →
palestina:
In a move backed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the University of Johannesburg (UJ)has severed its links with Israel‟s Ben-Gurion University (BGU) over its complicity withIsraeli violations of international law and abuses of Palestinian human rights.
Following a determined campaign backed by…
Vijay Prashad - Why I support the boycott of...
So much of my college time in the 1980s in California went toward the distant struggles of South Africans for freedom. My textbook was Ann Seidman’s Why US Corporations Should Get Out of South Africa (1979) given to his students by my teacher Sid Lemelle. We organised a tent city outside our college president’s house, and after what seemed to us to be protracted struggle, we got our...
UN investigator: Israel engaged in ethnic... →
The “continued pattern of settlement expansion in East Jerusalem combined with the forcible eviction of long-residing Palestinians are creating an intolerable situation” in the part of the city previously controlled by Jordan, he said. This situation “can only be described in its cumulative impact as a form of ethnic cleansing,” Falk declared.
WatchVideo: How Now BDS? Media, Politics and Queer Activism
A conversation with John Greyson and Judith Butler, moderated by Jasbir Puar
This event was held on March 11 at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan, as part of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) in NYC. John Greyson, Judith Butler and Jasbir Puar discussed new forms of activism in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement...
Reposted entirely from Mondoweiss:
Sid Shniad wrote this letter responding to a column in yesterday’s Vancouver Sun. He says they probably won’t publish it, so we can.
Letter to the Editor, Vancouver Sun,
[Columnist] Barbara Yaffe sides with Stephen Harper and Michael Ignatieff, taking issue with student activists’ use of the term ‘apartheid’ to describe the...
