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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...
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Supporting a righteous fight for freedom
Journalists who are interested in human rights don’t have to be Muslim, anti-Semitic or crazy to support the Palestinian struggle. It’s just that, when we do, we’re usually accused of hating Jewish people, being secret supporters of the Islamic State – as if the Islamic State and Palestinians share...