Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) DESMOND TUTU | Counterpunch | 17 October 2002 The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century, but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure– in particular the divestment movement of the 1980s. Over the past six months, a similar movement has taken shape,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) James Ab | Indymedia South Africa | 18 October 2004 The streets of Johanesburg, Cape Town and Durban reveberated this weekend with cries of “Free Free Palestine”, “Isolate Apartheid Israel”, “Boycott Israel” and “No to Bantustans”, to mark the forthcoming visit of Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to South Africa. Thousands of people
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) RACHEL ZOLL | ctnow.com | 22 October 2004 The idea has floated around for years on the fringes of the Middle East debate: Opponents of Israeli policy in the Palestinian territories should divest from companies doing business there. Now, the concept is gaining ground in the heart of American Protestantism, pitting U.S. Jewish and
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel | Palestinian Academics | July 2004 Dear fellow academics, intellectuals and activists: Please find attached a Palestinian call for boycott issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. It has the support of nearly sixty of the most prominent
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Council for the National Interest | 15 October 2004 The Palestinian Solidarity Movement is meeting October 15-17 at Duke University to discuss divestment strategies, and the lead speaker is Dennis Brutus, the well-known anti-apartheid South African activist who is speaking on the usefulness of divestment in the struggle against oppression and how it helped
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JANINE ZACHARIA | The Jerusalem Post | 17 October 2004 A weekend conference urging divestment from Israel got underway at Duke University on Friday and continued into Saturday with speakers equating Zionism with South African apartheid and some calling for an end to an exclusively Jewish state. The gathering, the fourth organized by the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dr. Mustafa Barghouti | Amin Website | 7 October 2004 We don’t need to react to Sharon. We don’t need to react to him or his ideas. We need to boycott Sharon. We need to reject his plans altogether. We need to send a clear message, to the Arabs and the world, that we
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Denham | The Guardian | 1 October 2004 Trade pressure on Israel would help Blair deliver his Middle East pledge My colleague Ian Gibson MP rang me at 6.30am from his hotel in Ramallah on the West Bank. Our visit to study healthcare in occupied Palestine was about to take a personal and
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris McGreal in Jerusalem | The Guardian | 24 September 2004 Campaigners inspired by boycott of apartheid South Africa. An influential Anglican group is to ask church leaders to impose a boycott of Israel and firms that do business there in protest at the occupation. The call, by the Anglican Peace and Justice Network,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Interview by Nick Everett | Green Left Weekly | 1 September 2004 Dr Ilan Pappe is one of Israel’s most prominent “new historians”. In May 2002, Pappe was threatened with expulsion from his university, the University of Haifa, for supporting a Jewish graduate student whose dissertation documented an massacre of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers.
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