Boycotts and sanctions helped rid South Africa of apartheid
The comparison rankles supporters of Israel, but the growing Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement draws on the struggle to isolate racist South Africa
By Chris McGreal / The Guardian
Ask an older generation of white South Africans when they first felt the bite of anti-apartheid sanctions, and some point to the moment in 1968, when then-South African prime minister John Vorster banned a tour by the England cricket team, because it included a mixed-race player, Basil D’Oliveira.
After that, South Africa was excluded from international cricket until former South African president Nelson Mandela walked free from prison 22 years later.
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An Open Letter to the International Community We, Jewish Israelis, oppose the actions of the Israeli government and hereby declare our commitment to act
Friday 21 May 2021, by Roland Rance
The Palestinian Nakba of 1947-9 was the defining feature of a process which began in the 1880s and continues to this day. It determines the daily lives of Palestinians in the state of Israel, Palestinians under military occupation in the rest of Palestine, and Palestinians in exile from their homeland. This is the injustice that must be addressed in any attempt to resolve 140 years of conflict and dispossession.
On 15 May 1948, the State of Israel was established on the ruins of Palestine. For Israeli Jews, the date is a celebration, marked annually as Independence Day. For Palestinians, the date symbolises the Nakba, or Catastrophe.
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