Posts Tagged ‘Nelson Mandela’
Open Letter to the Guardian’s Gary Younge – Why the Double Standards Over Israeli Apartheid?
Open Letter to the Guardian’s Gary Younge – Why the Double Standards Over Israeli Apartheid? Why is it so difficult to understand that Labour’s ‘Anti-Semitism’ Crisis Has Nothing to do with anti-Semitism? I have to admit that I was taken aback when I began reading Gary Younge’s article If you didn’t desert Labour over the Iraq…
Read MoreBrighton and Hove Council Ignores Black and Anti-racist Organisations and Votes To Adopt a Definition of Antisemitism that is both Racist and Antisemitic
Brighton Council Leader Daniel Yates compared the IHRA to the Theft Act – He has a point! – Unlike the Greens Who Had No Point! Below is an extract from the debate on the IHRA at a meeting of Brighton & Hove Council on Thursday. The full debate can be seen here. I have omitted the…
Read MoreIsrael – Apartheid South Africa’s Best Friend
Lest We Forget – Israel’s Support for South Africa As true today as when Mandela spoke For decades Israel supported the “A-word” regime and its military with advanced weapon systems at a time when Western sanctions meant no one else would. According to Haaretz editor Aluf Benn, the cooperation reached its peak in the late…
Read MoreU.S. Lionizes Mandela In Death … But Labeled Him a Terrorist While He Was Alive
The Hypocrisy that Makes Nelson Mandela into an Icon Mandela and Palestine Rabin, Begin and Moshe Dayan have a friendly word former Nazi, John Vorster Ezer Weizmann a Likud hawk turned dove shakes hands with Arafat as Mandela looks on It’s strange how little comment there has been about the absence of one leader,…
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