Towards Palestine Liberation and Al Awda Movement in Alliance with the Axis of Resistance
by Omar Ahmed, published on Middle East Monitor, February 22, 2020 There are early signs that another uprising, or Intifada, will erupt in occupied Palestine. A couple of weeks ago, a spokesperson of the Gaza-based Al-Quds Brigades, an armed wing of the resistance faction Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), called on Palestinians to take up arms and attack military checkpoints and […]
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by Ronnie Kasrils, published on Middle East Eye, February 24, 2020 To South Africans, US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”, handed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a silver platter, looks like the clone of an apartheid state. Hendrik Verwoerd, the former South African prime minister and architect of apartheid, stated as far back as 1961: “The […]
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by Tim Anderson, published on Black Agenda Report, January 29, 2020 The idea that Israel cannot be targeted or criticized as a “racist endeavor” is an absurd suggestion. “Any state that practices ethnic cleansing andcivilian massacres, based on racial ideology, can and should becriticized for such serious crimes.” On 26 May, 2016 the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), a group which has […]
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by Jonathan Ofir, Published On Mondoweiss, November 12, 2019 After the 2008-9 Israeli onslaught on Gaza that took 1500 lives, a UN fact-finding mission concluded that the three-week campaign was “a deliberately disproportionate attack, designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population.” Note the word “terrorize.” But was this an isolated incident? Not at all. Israel has a long […]
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by Finian Cunningham, published on Information Clearing House, November 17, 2019 It is a ludicrous situation when anyone criticizing Israeli state violations against Palestinians or neighboring countries is then instantly discredited as being “antisemitic”. We see this in Britain and the United States all the time. Congresswomen like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have been denounced for being “anti-Jewish”, including […]
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by Randall Heyn-Lamb, published onMondoweiss, October 24, 2019 This week, the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church adopted a human rights investment screen related to Israel and Palestine and will sell its holdings in Motorola Solutions, Caterpillar, Inc., and the Israel Discount Bank. This is the latest step in response to a July 2018 General Convention […]
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The One Democratic State of Palestine movement says: solidarity with the thousands of political prisoners held hostage by the Israeli regime
» Read moreby Ramzy Baroud, published by The Palestinian Information Center On September 16, I visited South Africa, a country where many Palestinians have always felt welcomed, if not overwhelmed by the degree of genuine and meaningful solidarity. While having the honor to address many audiences in six, major cities, I have also learned a great deal. An important and sobering lesson […]
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South Africa’s ambassador to the UN Jerry Matjila has criticized the UN for not implementing any of its 72 resolutions which it has adopted on Palestine since 1948. Matjila, president of the Security Council for the month of October, made his remarks to al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper about the international community’s failure to help the Palestinian people achieve their aspirations for […]
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