BDS South Africa

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Shashi Naidoo denied access to Palestine

South African model and businesswoman Shashi Naidoo has been denied entry into Palestine, BDS South Africa has confirmed. Naidoo was meant to go on her own fact finding mission to better understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after a backlash on social media over her comments on Gaza. BDS South Africa said on Wednesday she was blocked on the orders of Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and the recommendation of Israel’s Public […]

today25 July 2018

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Shashi Naidoo to visit Palestine to “re-educate” herself

South African celebrity Shashi Naidoo has decided to visit Palestine, following a huge backlash over her recent comments on Gaza. Naidoo was addressing a press conference with BDS South Africa on Wednesday, after she reached out to the organisation to “re-educate” herself on the Palestinian issue. Over the weekend, Naidoo posted a lengthy Instagram post in support of Israeli action in Gaza, at one point, called Gaza a 'sh*thole'.    […]

today20 June 2018

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Mashaba suspends Health MMC over Israeli support

Mayor of Johannesburg, Herman Mashaba has suspended senior city official, MMC of Health, Mpho Phalatse, over her participation at a pro-Israeli rally on Sunday.  Its believed that  Phalatse for publicly declared that the city was a friend of Israel and she has since gone on to share more of her views of Israel on her Twitter account. The event, organised by the local Israeli lobby was sponsored by Israel's Ministry of Strategic […]

today12 June 2018

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SAns condemn Israeli massacre of Gazans for a consecutive week

Palestinian sources say hospitals and medics are struggling to cope with the severe injuries of civilians in yesterday’s Great Right of Return protests. Eight Gazans were shot and killed by Zionist occupation forces yesterday, which brings the death toll since the start of the protests on March 30 to 31. For the second consecutive Friday, tens of thousands marched to the Gaza border area with Israel, demanding the right of […]

today7 April 2018

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‘We lost one of our mothers’: Faieza Desai

“We lost one of our mothers today”. That’s how Palestine solidarity and human rights organisation, BDS South Africa described political and social activist Faieza Desai, who died on Thursday at the age of 58. Faieza succumbed to lymphoma, a cancer that begins in infection-fighting cells of the immune system. She is the wife of prominent South African judge Siraj Desai. Hundreds of people from different backgrounds attended her janazah to […]

today30 March 2018

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BDS welcomes cancelation of Israel-Africa Summit

The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in South Africa has hailed a decision to cancel the controversial Israel-Africa summit, which was meant to take place in Togo in October. According to Haartez, Togo's President Faure Gnassingbé informed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he has cancelled the Africa-Israel Summit, due to take place in the capital of Lomé. While Togo is facing a political crisis at present, it’s widely […]

today11 September 2017

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Parliament decision to snub Zionist delegation widely praised

Messages of support have flowed in for the position taken by the Parliament of South Africa in rejecting a visiting Israeli delegation. Fateh, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and sister-party to South Africa’s governing ANC, has written to the SA Parliament commending it for sending a “clear and strong message” to the Israeli regime by refusing to meet with its officials. The decision by South Africa comes […]

today16 August 2017

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SA launches solidarity campaign for Palestinian hunger strikes

South Africans are called to join a national one day symbolic 24 hour fast and day of action on the 15th of May in solidarity with thousands of Palestinians who are on a mass hunger strike.  South Africa's pro-Palestine movement have launched a nationwide action to support 1500 Palestinian political prisoners who launched an open-ended hunger strike across Israeli jails, detention centers and prisons over a week ago. The hunger strike has […]

today26 April 2017

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Israel to summon SA Ambassador for reprimand: BDS SA

South Africa’s Ambassador Sisa Ngombane has been "summoned", according to Israeli media reports, following the recent #IsraeliApartheidWeek campaign in SA. According to the Israeli publication, Jerusalem Online: "The Israeli Foreign Ministry has stated that South Africa's ambassador to Israel will be summoned for an official reprimand following anti-Israeli remarks made by two senior officials in the South African government.” The two officials, according to the publication, are ANC DSG Jessie […]

today15 March 2017

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