VIDEO | Free Palestine movement receives support from anti-apartheid stalwarts

Published on Oct 28, 2013 For more on this and other stories please visit http://www.enca.com/ Related Full text of Historic Robben Island Declaration for the Freedom of Marwan Barghouthi and all Palestinian Prisoners South African solidarity event to launch international Free Marwan Barghouthi campaign! ~ @SamidounPP Palestine’s Prisoners Pictures Palestinian Prisoners Special Topic Palestinian Prisoners Category The […]

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Durban: Palestine Prisoner Solidarity Rally at 19h00 on Oct 29, 2013

Media Review Network | Oct 28, 2013 DAY: Tuesday, 29 October TIME: 19h00 WHERE: Durban Art Gallery ADDRESS: 2nd Floor, Durban Art Gallery, Durban City Hall,Anton Lembede Street (Smith St.), Durban CONTACT: 0823731143 About the Author The aspiration of the Media Review Network is to dispel the myths and stereotypes about Islam and Muslims and […]

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Full text of Historic Robben Island Declaration for the Freedom of Marwan Barghouthi and all Palestinian Prisoners

Media Review Network | Oct 27, 2013 Full text of the Robben Island Declaration We, the signatories affirm our conviction that freedom and dignity are the essence of civilisation. People around the globe, and throughout history, have risen to defend their freedom and dignity against colonial rule, oppression, apartheid, and segregation. Generations of men and […]

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South African solidarity event to launch international Free Marwan Barghouthi campaign! ~ @SamidounPP

 Samidoun | Oct 26, 2013 This Sunday, 27 October, the international “Free Marwan Barghouthi and all Palestinian prisoners” campaign will be launched from the historic South African landmark of Robben Island, where anti-apartheid struggle icons Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada and others were imprisoned during Apartheid in South Africa. The Palestinian based Popular Campaign […]

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Free Marwan Barghouthi and Palestinians Prisoners!!

Originally posted on Incredulities of World:
South Africa is going to embark on a journey to free Palestinians Prisoners. Would be launching a campaign at Robben Island  on the 27 October 2013 following by a public event at the Good hope Centre. Where I thought I would go but my other forgot that has to…

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Israeli football, racism and politics – the ugly side of the beautiful game ~ by Jonathan Cook

By Jonathan Cook | Jonathan-Cook.net | 25 April 2013 Israel’s increasing integration into European competitions, despite its refusal to revive peace talks with the Palestinians, respect human rights and halt illegal settlement, is, according to critics, contrary to sporting values and should be met with international opposition of the kind faced by apartheid South Africa. […]

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South Africa requires labels on goods from Palestine

Maan News Agency | April 11, 2013 JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South Africa has imposed new rules requiring goods imported from occupied Palestine display special labels, a government official said Thursday. “We have all agreed that goods must be labelled from where they are coming from, so that consumers can make informed choice,” Sidwell Medupe, spokesman […]

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South Africa launches investigation into the attack on the Mavi Marmara

[ PIC 25/12/2012 – 07:57 PM ] ISTANBUL, (PIC)– The Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation announced that the Republic of South Africa has launched an investigation into the case of the Mavi Marmara ship, attacked by Israeli forces in 2010. The investigation is to be launched at the request submitted in 2011 by lawyers of journalist […]

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An Inconvenient Truth: Israeli Apartheid ~ by Paul R. Pillar

Israel and its apologists react in fury when anyone likens the oppression of Palestinians to South Africa’s white supremacist system of apartheid toward blacks, but the comparison is growing harder and harder to dispute, a disturbing reality. Paul R. Pillar | Global Research | Dec 18, 2012 Several factors contributed to the demise of apartheid […]

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South African students impose boycott on Israel

A view of South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand (file photo) PressTV | Tue Sep 4, 2012 7:22AM GMT In support of the oppressed Palestinians in the occupied lands, students at a South African university have imposed “an academic and cultural” boycott on the Israeli regime. In a Monday statement, the University of the Witwatersrand’s […]

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PRESS RELEASE | South Africa: Statement By Deputy Minister Ebrahim On the Palestinian-Israeli Situation

AllAfrica.com | Aug 17, 2012 press release South Africa continues to support international efforts to assist the people of Palestine and Israel in finding lasting peace in the context of the two state solution. The Government’s policy position on the situation in Palestine is informed by South Africa’s history of apartheid, oppression and abuse of […]

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South Africa’s ANC calls for more pressure on Israel

Al Akhbar English | July 2, 2012 South Africa’s ruling party has called for an increased boycott of Israeli products and greater support for the Palestinians at its annual conference. The African National Congress, led by many who struggled against Apartheid until 1994, agreed to “increase” pressure on the Israeli state at the conference last […]

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Justice requires action to stop subjugation of Palestinians ~ by Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu |  06 May 2012 15:25 | Middle East Monitor It can make an enormous difference in creating a future of justice and equality for Palestinians and Jews in the Holy Land. A quarter-century ago I barnstormed around the United States encouraging Americans, particularly students, to press for divestment from South Africa. Today, regrettably, […]

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Israel has murdered more political opponents than apartheid South Africa ever judicially executed

Posted on April 7, 2012 at NL-Aid This week the United Nations held an international meeting in Geneva on the question of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention facilities. Professor John Dugard presented on the status of Palestinians who engage in resistance against Israeli oppression. Former Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation […]

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Israeli soldiers attack South African and Portuguese ambassadors with tear gas | #Portugal #SouthAfrica #SA

[ PIC 24/03/2012 – 06:57 AM ] QALQILIYA, (PIC)– The South African and Portuguese ambassadors to occupied Palestine were reportedly attacked with tear gas grenades by Israeli soldiers during their participation in Kafr Qaddum march near Qalqiliya city on Friday afternoon. The two ambassadors suffocated after inhaling tear gas smoke and received immediate medical treatment […]

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