Israel

Open Shuhada Street Lecture Series - Prof. Shamil Jeppie to speak on 27 July

Posted Fri, 07/23/2010 - 11:43 by Open Shuhada Street

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Seminar for Activists in Khayelitsha

Posted Fri, 07/09/2010 - 14:07 by kiu.kim

OSS will be holding an educational seminar on Tuesday 13th July, 15h00-17h00 at Lookout Hill in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.

Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa

Posted Thu, 06/24/2010 - 09:17 by Open Shuhada Street

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INVITATION TO BOOK LAUNCH

Sasha Polakow-Suransky's book, Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa , describes Israel and South Africa's close and covert military alliance with each other during the Apartheid era.

"Israel’s attack on Goldstone belies Its own support of Apartheid"

Posted Wed, 05/19/2010 - 11:25 by Open Shuhada Street

Richard Silverstein has written a blog exposing the hypocrisy of the latest attack on Judge Richard Goldstone. We recommend it.

Read it here:

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2010/05/19/israels-attack-on-goldstone-is-attack-on-its-own-record-of-support-for-apartheid-south-africa/

 

Israeli Arab students write open letter in support of academic boycott

Posted Mon, 11/16/2009 - 08:28 by Open Shuhada Street

On 9 November, three Israeli Arab student organisations wrote the following open letter to the Board of Governors of Trondheim University (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Based on what they describe as their "daily experience as Arabs in Israeli institutions" the organisations have called for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

Prisoners in Israel and Palestine

Posted Sat, 10/24/2009 - 02:39 by Open Shuhada Street


Photo from Students for Justice in Palestine.

Both the Israeli Government and Hamas keep prisoners in conditions that violate human rights. This article presents some information on the way both sides treat people imprisoned as a consequence of their role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (This article does not deal with the imprisonment of Palestinian dissidents by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority nor Israeli dissidents by the Israeli government. It also does not deal with common criminals imprisoned for non-political actions.)

Ashley Kriel Memorial Lecture

Posted Fri, 10/02/2009 - 08:23 by Open Shuhada Street

On 6 October 2009 the Shministim visiting South Africa, Sahar Vardi, Yuval Ophir-Auron and Omer Goldman, delivered the 6th Annual Ashley Kriel Lecture.

You can download it here in PDF format or you can read it below.

Open letter by Daniel Mackintosh to current and former parents of Herzlia School

Posted Thu, 10/01/2009 - 14:55 by Open Shuhada Street

Dear current and former parents of Herzlia,

I am writing this email to you to inform you of a situation that involves the value of freedom of speech, which I was taught to love throughout my 12 years at Herzlia. I have long been a supporter of Herzlia, learnt my love of all things Jewish from the education I received there and have had many years of excellent contact with the school after I matriculated in 2002, both in my personal capacity as an ex-head student, and in a variety of organisations (Habonim, Limmud and Equal Education). I do hope that this email will not effect my future contact with the school, however I am writing it because I care deeply about what happens at Herzlia.

Two states or Apartheid

Posted Thu, 10/01/2009 - 14:47 by Open Shuhada Street

By John Dugard, Chairman of the Independent Fact Finding Committee on Gaza

This article originally appeared here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-dugard/post_356_b_258206.html

We reprint it because of its sensible position.

August 12, 2009

Israel is long overdue to undergo the same racial reckoning and transformation that the United States underwent in the 1960s and South Africa passed through in the 1990s. The dual system of law that prevails in the occupied West Bank and favors Jewish settlers to the detriment of Palestinians is unacceptable in the 21st century. Israel's settlers must decide if they will abide by international law and leave the occupied territories or stay on -- as offered by Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad -- provided they live under Palestinian law.

Israeli government goes after Breaking the Silence funding

Posted Sun, 07/26/2009 - 17:09 by Open Shuhada Street

Haaretz reports that the Israeli Foreign Ministry is pressurising the Dutch government to end its funding of Breaking the Silence, the organisation that recently released testimonies of human rights abuses committed by the Israeli Defence Force and whose members have provided many of the materials on this website.

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