Activisim & BDS

Image: Dr. Bashar al-Ja’afari, Ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of Syria to the UN in New York.

Mustapha noted in the interview that in Western countries “the full force of the law” is brought down upon critics of Zionism, whereas anti-Islamic neocon zealots are given a platform on mainstream media to spout lies and deceptions intended to demonize Muslims and Middle Eastern countries such as Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya.

 

 The Australian government, Israel and its collaborator, the Palestinian Authority (PA) scored a victory over the Palestinian Boycott Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Movement on November 29, 2014.

 

Vacy Vlazna

This was the shameful day that the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) , at its AGM, voted for No.1 from the following options,

Regardless of the outcome of the March elections, Israel’s habitual violence and its ongoing violation of international laws and the standards of human rights will not change.

 

by Dr. Lawrence Davidson 

Image: Winter has arrived in Gaza
 
 

This growth of the BDS movement is starting to turn the tide against Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid, even among decision makers. Israel may soon be facing its South Africa moment.

by Omar Barghouti

The international surge in condemnation of Israel’s treatment of Palestine, and Gaza in particular, underlines the growing impact of BDS

Image: Courtesy http://english.pravda.ru/
 
 

The United States, now on a new hunt for a great white whale, has virtually re-created East Germany’s dreaded Stasi, only in a much more sophisticated and far-reaching form. It meshes with the all-pervasive secret state police apparatus Israel has constructed in the Middle East with infinite care since 1948.

 Dr. Marcelo Svirsky, an Israeli/Australian lecturer from UOW walked from Sydney to Parliament House in Canberra to present a petition for Boycott Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) demanding the government exclude relations with Israel in line with BDS until it abides by international laws.

Published on Sep 2, 2014
A song about the recent brutal and pitiless assault on the defenceless Palestinians in Gaza.
http://youtu.be/ejXp4hTW2nc
 
by George Bruce Clark
 

Despite the pro-Israeli bias in Australia’s mainstream media, more than 69%  of Australia’s population are now critical of Israel’s influence in the world (BBC Poll, 2013) and many of these critics in Adelaide are eager to express that disapproval by employing the time-honoured tactics of BDS.

 
 

AFP editor’s note:  This is a must watch video about the rights of Palestinians delivered by a Palestinian speaking with all the eloquence, intelligence, dignity and grace that we would applaud from anyone speaking for our own precious rights and freedoms.  Those rights are no less precious for each and every Palestinian struggling against Israel’s oppressive and brutal policies designed to negate their very existence.   – SK