12 September 2016

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
Cc: Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation NPC

Dear Archbishop Desmond Tutu,

Open letter of support to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Inspired in part by a similar campaign during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s, the Israeli Apartheid Free Zone campaign is led by the Solidarity Network Against the Occupation of Palestine (RESCOP) in the Spanish state.

The website Women For Palestine recently published an “interview” that purported to have been carried out with Riya Hassan, Europe Campaigns Officer with the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the broadest coalition of Palestinian organisations that leads and supports the BDS movement. The BNC wishes to make clear that none of its activists have carried out an interview with the Women For Palestine website.

Turkey ratifies normalization deal with Israel undermining efforts for achieving freedom, justice and dignity for the Palestinian people.

The LAW TRAIN project, aimed at unifying police interrogation methodologies, has generated controversy in Portugal because of vocal opposition to Israel’s participation in the EU’s Horizon 2020 research framework and the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Israeli entities taking part.

Los estudiantes de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) votaron, por una amplia mayoría, aprobar y adherir al movimiento de Boicot, Desinversión y Sanciones (BDS) por los dere