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It’s Game-on for IAW 2014
ANT KATZ
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel in South Africa (BDS-SA) have put out initial details about Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) 2014, announcing that “The IAW SA team is made up of 50 members across South Africa.”
Their network is planned to stretch across six cities, they say: Durban, Cape Town, Joburg, Orange Farm, Port Elizabeth and Soweto.
They are planning to hold activities on nine campuses
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Rhodes University
- Stellenbosch University
- University of Cape Town
- University of Johannesburg
- University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban)
- University of KwaZulu-Natal (Maritzburg)
- University of Pretoria
- University of the Witwatersrand
RIGHT: On a lighter note, pro-Israel blogger Anne dubbed BDS – Big, Dumb, Stupid this week. She also accused them of: Bigotry, Double standards and anti-Semitism.
“Several recent instances of anti-Israel boycotts highlight both the distortions of logic and reason, and the abuse of universal values like human rights and free speech in order to justify the anti-Semitism lurking behind their anti-Israel boycotts,” she wrote – see: ANNE’S BLOG
BDS-SA says that they have the “endorsement” of 35 organisations, mostly political, labour and anti-Israel organisations:
- African National Congress Youth League (ANC YL),
- Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel in South Africa (BDS South Africa)
- Caring Women’s Forum (CWF)
- Centre for Civil Society (CCS)
- Chemical Energy Paper Printing Wood and Allied Workers Union (CEPPWAWU)
- Coalition for a Free Palestine (CFP)
- Communication Workers Union (CWU)
- Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
- Friends of Cuba (FOCUS)
- Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)
- Kairos Southern Africa
- Media Review Network (MRN)
- Muslim Judicial Council (MJC)
- Muslim Women’s Forum (MWF)
- National Education, Health and Allied Worker Union (NEHAWU)
- National Union of Metalworkers South Africa (NUMSA)
- Open Shuhada Street (OSS)
- Palestine Solidarity Alliance (PSA)
- Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)
- People Against Suffering Oppression and Poverty (PASSOP)
- South African Artists Against Apartheid (SA AAA)
- South African Communist Party (SACP)
- South African Council of Churches (SACC)
- South African Council of Churches Youth Forum
- South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU)
- South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU)
- South African Students Congress (SASCO)
- South African Union of Students (SAUS)
- StopTheJNF
- Union of Muslim Students Association (MSA)
- University of Pretoria Student Representative Council (UP SRC)
- Wits University Student Representative Council (Wits SRC)
- Wits University Writing Centre
- World Federation of Trade Union (sic) (WFTU)
- Young Communist League of South Africa (YCL)
- Zaytoun South Africa
If you would like to tell the organisers what you think of their planned IAW 2014, click here: iawsouthafrica@apartheidweek.org and send them a mail!
Gary Selikow
December 29, 2013 at 2:40 pm
‘the left are now the full force behind planning and executing the second Holocaust.
Letwing anti-Semitism revolves around the denial of Jewish nationhood, and therefore of Israel’s right to exist, leading to a hatred of all Jews who affirm Jewish nationhood and particularly of all Jews who live in the Jewish homeland. It also involves a gross Orwellianism whereby Israel is accused of genocide, when the truth is that the Arabs and their allies are the ones pushing for the destruction of Israel and thereby a second Holocaust against Jews.
Because anti-Zionism’s goal would lead to a second holocaust against five million Jews, it cannot be distinguished from anti-Semitism.
Furthermore there is only one posible reason why people isolate Israel of all the countries of the world to deny it’s right to existence. Because Israel is a Jewish State. Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.
one is also vexed is also vexed by the question of explaining Jews who devote their lives to hurting Jews. He points out that \”Among no group in the world are there so many individuals who so single-mindedly attempt to damage the group into which they were born\”.
He gives as examples the loathsome Noam Chomsky who has dedicated much of his life tro defending those who wish to destroy Israel, and to demonize Israel and her people, frequently comparing Israelis to the Nazis; and Norman Finkelstein who lectures throughout the world , calling Israel a Nazi State and demanding it’s destruction.
Indeed many Jewish ultra-Leftists lead the \”burn Israel\” movement, sponsoring pro-Palestinian hate rallies, leading campaigns for divestment from Israel, and demoinzing Israel and her people in the media and universities.
in a world filled with enormous evils-such as totalitarian states that make their countries into large prison camps (Iran and North Korea); that massacre and enslave millions of citizens (Sudan) , that wage deadly war against their own populations (Zimbabwe and Myanmar) that destroy entire cultures (As China is doing in Tibet), it would seem a puzzle as to why the Jewish State and America are the two most villified countries in the world.
Prager points this out as being a violent rejection of the American and Jewish values of Judeo-Christian civilization, justice, freedom, democracy and humanity as a source of light to the world.
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anon
December 30, 2013 at 6:34 am
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The first ‘Rashi’ on the Torah (Bereishit) explains Gary’s analysis.
The nations of the world will never accept a sovereign Jewish state.
(Problem is that many Jews do not accept one either).
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Leon Reich
December 30, 2013 at 12:17 pm
‘I think that we in our history have consistently had people who rise up against us – but, as told in the Haggadah:
\”In every generation people have risen up against us to slaughter us. But the Holy One, blessed be He, has saved us from their hands.\”
In my time I have observed this happening to the Nazs, the Communists and the Nationist Party in SA.
And BDS will surely follow them in their march into into oblivion.’
Gary Selikow
December 30, 2013 at 1:08 pm
‘At the time of the war of 1967, the world was listening to the real facts, later on, the Muslims discovered the what is called, propaganda, Muslims started to spread to Europe, and started to spread the lies, They gave lectures, went from union to union, town to town, and from university to university, and slowly brainwashed the Europeans. Then came the big money from Saudi-Arabia, who donated to universities in Europe and the US, in a condition, to teach the students to \”understand better\” the conflict in the Muddle East, the universities who needed the big money, pleased the donors and the professors obeyed, and so graduated a new generation if brain washed students, who became the elite, what’s today politicians, journalists, and professors, who keep teaching what they heard from their professors.
In 1990 their Satanic network of hate spread to South Africa with the unabbnming of the ANC/SACP’
ANON
December 30, 2013 at 5:43 pm
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Come on Leon, I cannot recall any nationilist party in S.Africa who tried to ‘slaugthter’ (your word) the Jewish people. On the contrary the nationalist govt was far more predisposed to Israel than the present regime.
Your bracketing the nats with the Nazis and communists is a bad distortion.
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