[This is the transcript of a talk I gave to Bath Friends of Palestine on 25 February 2022.] Since I arrived with my family in the UK last summer, I have been repeatedly asked: “Why choose Bristol as your new home?” Well, it certainly wasn’t for the weather. Now more than ever I miss Nazareth’s […]
I have never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually. — Desmond Tutu, 2007 Along with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Nelson Mandela ‘Madiba,’ and Martin Luther King, Jr., the world has lost one of the greatest souls of the last two centuries or any […]
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Israel’s war on Palestinian sports is as old as the Israeli state itself. For Palestinians, sport is a critical aspect of their popular culture, and since Palestinian culture itself is a target for the ongoing Israeli attack on Palestinian life in all of its manifestations, sports and athletes have been purposely targeted as well. Yet, […]
Les murs qui protègent Israël s’effritent rapidement. Il y a un an, c’était le groupe de défense des droits humains le plus célèbre d’Israël, B’Tselem. Quelques mois plus tard, c’était au tour de Human Rights Watch, basé à New York, dont les dirigeants ont souvent entretenu des relations avec le département d’État américain. Source : […]
L’apartheid d’Israël contre les Palestiniens : un système cruel de domination et un crime contre l’humanité. Source : Amnesty InternationalTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Les autorités israéliennes doivent être tenues de rendre des comptes pour avoir commis le crime d’apartheid contre les Palestiniens, a déclaré Amnesty International aujourd’hui dans un nouveau rapport accablant. […]
Why is no one talking about how senior Labour Party figures whitewash apartheid?by Ian SinclairMorning Star25 February 2022 Amnesty International’s recent report condemning Israel for “committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” is a damning indictment of the current Israeli government (and its predecessors), and its supporters around the world. After carrying out research for […]
When Nelson Mandela was freed from his Robben Island prison on February 11, 1991, my family, friends and neighbors followed the event with keen interest as they gathered in the living room of my old home in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. This emotional event took place years before Mandela uttered his famous quote […]
[Prefatory Note: An interview David Falcone originally published in COUNTERPUNCH prompted by the Amnesty Report but extending beyond it.] FEBRUARY 11, 2022 On Israel as an Apartheid State: an Interview with Richard Falk BY DANIEL FALCONE FacebookTwitterRedditEmail Photograph Source: Chris Yunker – CC BY 2.0 Daniel Falcone: Could you give the context of the framework that brought […]
[Prefatory Note: The following interview conducted by Daniel Falcone appeared in COUNTERPUNCH in February 11, 2022. Small modifications have been made. While the Report significantly strengthened the civill society consensus to the effect that Israel is guilty of the continuing crime of apartheid, it has not overt impact in governmental policy circles in the West […]
[Prefatory Note: The following interview contains some probing questions put to me by C. J. Polychroniou. The interview was published in Truthout on February 9th, following the release on February 1st, of the explosive Amnesty International Report finding Israel to be guilty of committing the continuing crime of apartheid. How much longer can governments, the […]
