Analysis
Not an Analogy: Israel and the Crime of Apartheid
Hazem Jamjoum [Common Dreams] 31 March 2009 – In recent years, increasing numbers of people around the world have begun adopting and developing an analysis of Israel as an apartheid regime. 1
Boycott Apartheid Israel
By Natalie Abou Shakra – Gaza [Palestine Chronicle] 24 March 2009 – The concept of civil resistance is not new at all.
DEBATE: To Boycott Israel…or Not?
Naomi Klein and Rabbi Arthur Waskow debate whether divestment will bring peace to the Middle East.
By Joel Bleifuss – In These Times
Land Day 2009 And BDS Global Week Of Action Against The Crisis And War
By Eileen Fleming [Countercurrents.org] 24 March, 2009 – The Global Week of Action; a call for BDS/Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions begins March 28th through April 4, 2009. March 30, 2009 will commemorate the 33rd annual Land Day nonviolent solidarity demonstrations and actions in Palestine and the diaspora.
Worried about apartheid? Too late, Mr Olmert, it’s already here
Tony Karon [The National] 22 March 2009 – In one of her last acts as US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice had
Nelson Mandela’s name removed from America’s terrorist watch list. Many
Americans were shocked to learn that their favourite former political
Ronnie Kasrils Speech at Israeli Apartheid Week 2009
Who said nearly 50 years ago that Israel was an Apartheid State?
by Ronnie Kasrils
"…a colonial racist mentality which rationalised the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australasia, in Africa from Namibia to the Congo and elsewhere, most clearly has its parallels in Palestine."
Histadrut: Israel's racist "trade union"
Tony Greenstein, The Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2009
- Histadrut has always been a strange creature. In most countries one joins a trade union which is affiliated to a national trade union federation.
Lessons from the I-97 Seattle divestment initiative
Dave Jette, The Electronic Intifada, 6 March 2009 – "This is a farce!" Washington state senator Adam Kline could barely control his rage.
Movement spreads to boycott Israel
Kathy Durkin [Workers World] 7 March 2009 – The Palestinian Unified Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel is taking hold and growing in unions, universities and among political forces on many continents.
