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Items by Janet Smith
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BDS activists face challenges in South Africa, but are determined not to stop
When he was in South Africa in July 2014, Omar Barghouti told a story about the Second Intifada. It was the early 2000s, a decade which had started with the then Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. For Palestinians living under settler-colonialism in the West Bank...
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Supporting a righteous fight for freedom
Journalists in South Africa under attack for supporting Palestine are not alone. All over the world, we face the same hate, mostly from Zionists. The only differences between our antagonists are that they don’t all speak the same language, and may use different tactics to adapt to their domain....