VIDEO: SA STUDENTS SEND MESSAGE TO CHILE
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President Avela Majubana and Secretary General Sthembiso Ndlovu of the SA Union of Students (SAUS) sent this video message to students at the University of Chile supporting them in adopting a BDS boycott of Israel. SAUS is the umbrella body representing all Student Representative Councils in South Africa. Click here to watch.
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LETTER: PRESIDENT OF SA STUDENTS CONGRESS WRITES TO STUDENTS IN CHILE
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TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY - DON'T COLLABORATE WITH ISRAEL
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The YCL SA at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) has said that it, together with other progressive organizations, students and academics will oppose the Israeli Embassy's recent attempt to forge collaborations with TUT. Click here for more info.
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CALL FOR ANC YOUTH LEAGUE TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST ISRAEL SANCTION BUSTERS
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The Palestine Solidarity Alliance, BDS SA, UCT Palestine Solidarity Forum, Wits University PSC, University of Johannesburg PSF, PSA Youth League, SA Jews for a Free Palestine (SAJFP) and several other human rights and Palestine solidarity organisations have called for the ANC Youth League to enforce its policies on Palestine and take strong action members attending pro-Israeli conferences and sanction busting Israeli propaganda junket trips. Click here to read. |
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BDS SUCCESS: CHILE STUDENTS VOTE TO BOYCOTT AND END TIES WITH ISRAELI UNIVERSITIES
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By an overwhelming majority, students at one of Latin America’s oldest and most prestigious universities have voted to back the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
With 37 votes in favor, two against and 20 abstentions the student federation at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, elected from the institution’s 25 000-strong student body, approved a motion for the termination of agreements with two Israeli institutions. The move has been hailed by various quarters.
In May this year students at the University of Chile law school backed the BDS boycott of Israel in a landslide referendum. In Argentina and Brazil hundreds of professors and researchers and over a dozen colleges have also pledged to boycott Israeli institutions. Click here for more info.
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ON THE DEATH OF SHIMON PERES, APARTHEID COLLABORATOR & ISRAELI WAR CRIMINAL
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Former Israeli Defence Minister and then President, Shimon Peres is well known for the military relations he forged between Israel and Apartheid South Africa during the 1980s. Shimon Peres previously claimed that: "Israel and [Apartheid] South Africa have one thing above all else in common: they are both situated in a predominantly hostile world inhabited by dark peoples." During the height of the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Apartheid South Africa, Israel broke the arms embargo and supplied the Apartheid regime with military equipment. These weapons were then used against our people. Shimon Peres tried to come across as a peacemaker but to the Palestinian people it was a facade to cover the real story of Israeli racism, ethnic cleansing and oppression. Click here for BDS SA's statement on his death. |
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