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Is Israel guilty of the crime of apartheid?

by Richard Falk December 6, 2011

The recent finding of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) that the state of Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid in relation to the Palestine people should be taken with the utmost seriousness by all those who affirm human solidarity and care about making visible the long ordeal of a suffering and vulnerable people. The finding is conspicuously ignored by Israel and the United States, as well as by most media and by the United Nations.

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The Elders: We need peace in the Middle East, not just process

by Haitham Sabbah December 16, 2010

Israelis and Palestinians must ultimately agree to a solution, but they cannot do it alone.
Without a strategy that can deliver a peace agreement based on a two-state solution, Palestinians will continue to live under Israeli occupation, millions of Palestinian refugees will continue to live without hope and Israel’s survival and security remain under threat. If there is no real progress, more violence is the likely outcome.

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Desmond Tutu: We Must Boycott and Isolate Israeli Universities

by SR Editor September 26, 2010

The University of Johannesburg’s Senate will next week meet to decide whether to end its relationship with an Israeli institution, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, on the grounds of that university’s active support for and involvement in the Israeli military. Archbishop Desmond Tutu supports the move. He explains why. By Archbishop Desmond Tutu | Sabbah [...]

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Desmond Tutu Letter to Bil’in

by Haitham Sabbah April 24, 2010

Message by Desmond Tutu on behalf of The Elders On the Occasion of the Fifth Annual Bil’in Conference on Popular Resistance. Dear Friends, On behalf of the Elders, I send warm greetings to all of you attending the Bil’in Fifth Annual Conference on Popular Resistance. We are sorry that we could not be with you [...]

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do

by Haitham Sabbah April 11, 2010

Sent from Emily Schaeffer, human right lawyer in Israel/Palestine, who asked Archbishop Tutu to write the letter. Dear Student Leaders at the University of California – Berkeley It was with great joy that I learned of your recent 16-4 vote in support of divesting your university’s money from companies that enable and profit from the [...]

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An Open Letter to Margaret Atwood from Gaza: Don’t Stand on the Wrong Side of History

by Haitham Sabbah April 6, 2010

Besieged Gaza, Palestine April.4.2010 Dear Ms. Atwood, We are students from Gaza representing more than 10 academic institutions therein. Our grandparents are refugees who were expelled from their homes in the 1948 Nakba. They still have their keys locked up in their closets and will pass them on to their children, our parents. Many of [...]

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From Tutu to Goldstone

by SR Editor October 18, 2009

By Haitham Manna’ Translated from Arabic by Saja On September 2008 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu’s fact-finding delegation submitted to the Human Rights Council its latest report on the Israeli shelling of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip in 2006, which led to the death of nineteen civilians. At a press conference in Geneva, Tutu [...]

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Sam Bahour – The Elders’ next move

by Sam Bahour September 15, 2009

By Sam Bahour* RAMALLAH, West Bank — At long last, a spotlight is shining on Palestinian nonviolent efforts to throw off the Israeli occupation. A visit by a group of high profile “Elders” last month to the Palestinian village of Bil’in in the West Bank, and the barrier running through it, bathed our landscape in [...]

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Freedom Rider: Slow Death in Gaza

by Haitham Sabbah June 6, 2008

By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Each American claim to moral authority becomes a foul excretion in light of U.S. complicity in Israel’s barbaric and illegal treatment of the Palestinians. Washington deploys its superpower apparatus to smother dissent against its Middle East policy in Europe and elsewhere, leaving former president Jimmy Carter and [...]

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St. Thomas University president reverses ban on Tutu

by Haitham Sabbah October 12, 2007

We commend the president of St. Thomas University in reversing his decision and inviting Bishop Desmond Tutu to speak (Israel apologists lost this round). Bishop Tutu is a Nobel Peace Laureate who suffered for his work against South African apartheid now speaks eloquently, with humility and passion, on Israeli apartheid. Thanks to many people (including [...]

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Cowardice asks the question…

by Mazin Qumsiyeh October 4, 2007

Image by: Carlos Latuff By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD “Cowardice asks the question – is it safe? Expediency asks the question – is it politic? Vanity asks the question – is it popular? But conscience asks the question – is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither [...]

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Archbishop Tutu banned in a USA University, tagged as Anti-Semitic

by Haitham Sabbah October 4, 2007

Now this is NOT a satire post! Archbishop Tutu barred by U. of St Thomas because of criticism of Israel [via: Muzzle Watch] Rumors have been circulating for some time that Archbishop Desmond Tutu was banned by the University of St Thomas in Minnesota because of statements he made that some consider anti-Semitic. Now it’s [...]

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Did you know?

by Haitham Sabbah January 20, 2007

[by Carlos Latuff] Did you know that last August, a US Navy sailor, Ariel J. Weinmann, was suspected of spying for Israel and has been held in prison for four months. Last month, the Washington Post reported that the sailor was accused for spying and pleaded guilty, but guess what? They say he is accused [...]

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