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Apartheid Then and Now: A Conversation with South African and Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Activists

What is apartheid? How are the South African and Palestinian experiences the same? Different? How can and should apartheid be opposed? Get access to a conversation with South African and Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Activists, Kelvin Sauls and Sandra Tamari respectively.

Resources from the Call:

  1. United Nations’s 1976 The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid includes the definition of Apartheid in Article II as “The Crime of Apartheid is establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them.”

  2. Israeli Apartheid Week of Action March 14-21, 2021

  3. B’tselem Report on Apartheid

  4. The Israeli government and some of its supporters are asking Facebook to add “Zionist” as a protected category in its hate speech policy — that is, to treat "Zionist" as a proxy for "Jew" or "Jewish.” Sign on to join the demands that FaceBook NOT move forward with this decision and instead, commit to protecting political debate, breaking down barriers between our communities online, and supporting Palestinian liberation.

  5. Sign onto Adalah’s campaign to contact congressional reps about vaccine apartheid

  6. www.BDSToolKit.org