Apartheid

Rejecting the Bantustan ‘Two-state Solution’, Mandla Mandela Calls for a Single Democratic State in Palestine

January 29, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Rights of Opressed Peoples, South Africa, South Africa, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Tim Anderson, published on One Democratic State of Palestine , January 29, 2024 Washington and the Israelis understand that the fig leaf of ‘two states’ hides apartheid and prevents the construction of a broad anti-apartheid movement. The popular but fallacious touchstone of a political resolution in Palestine has been a ‘two-state solution’. Washington constantly reverts to this and, more[…]

The One State Reality

December 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, December 13, 2023 Recognizing the one state reality of Israel-Palestine instead of two-state dreaming would be a huge paradigm shift with huge implications. On December 8th, the UN Security Council voted 13 to 1 for a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The US cast the only no vote, exercising its veto[…]

The Black Misleaders Promote Zionism

November 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Corruption, Identity Politics, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Zionism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, November 22, 2023 As zionists ramp up the pressure, the Black misleadership class readily succumbs to protect their precious positions and dubious prominence. In 2021 this columnist wrote, “The Palestine Litmus Test.” At that time Israel was carrying out one of its periodic attacks against Gaza, deliberately targeting civilians, and in doing[…]

Labs of Oppression, Part Two: “Settler Violence = State Violence”

April 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Israel, Middle East Wars, Palestine

by Alice Speri, published on Israel-Palestine News, April 1, 2023 *Featured Image: A mural reads, “This is a home just like yours” in Khalet a-Daba’, a Palestinian village inside the Masafer Yatta firing zone, in the occupied West Bank on Jan. 17, 2023. (photo) For the Palestinians living in Masafer Yatta’s firing zone, the court’s decision sanctioning their forcible transfer[…]

How Tutu, de Klerk, and Mandela Would End Israeli Apartheid

December 30, 2021 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, South Africa

by Jeff Warner, published in Mondoweiss, December 28, 2021 An interesting analysis that illuminates Desmond TuTu’s statement that Israeli ‘apartheid’ is worse than South African ‘Apartheid’. And it ends with some practical advice. [jb] With the December 26, 2021, death of Bishop Desmond Tutu, six weeks after the November 11, 2021, death of Frederik Willem de Klerk, and seven years[…]

Anti-Apartheid Guerilla: We Made the System Ungovernable

June 26, 2021 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Political Prisoners, Racism, South Africa

by Ted Kelly, published on Workers World, June 25, 2021 Mpho Masemola is Secretary General of the Ex-Political Prisoners Veterans Association of South Africa (EPPA) and was an underground guerrilla fighter as a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a political prisoner, incarcerated along with Nelson Mandela at Pollsmoor[…]

What’s behind Zionist Cancel Culture? Turning ‘Racism’ Upside Down

December 19, 2020 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Israel-Palestine

by Tim Anderson, published on the American Herald Tribune, December 15, 2020 In recent times western left-liberalism has been criticised for its ‘cancel culture’, because of an obsession with language and individual identity politics. Yet reactionary cancel culture has been around much longer, with its McCarthyist purges. To this reactionary camp we should add ‘zionist cancel culture’ (ZCC), where those[…]

My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela, Helped End Apartheid. Let’s Do the Same for Palestine

April 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Racism, South Africa

In light of the fact that many US states have criminalized support for the Palestinian BDS campaign, we need to see the oppression of Palestinians in its true context. At the end of Apartheid, South African divisions were not reinforced, but rather the entire country was restored to the native people of South Africa. [Ed] by Nkosi Zwelivelile, published on[…]

Why Trump Can’t Save Israel

March 8, 2020 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Tim Anderson, Published on the American Herald Tribune, January 29, 2020 Despite Trump’s apparent show of strength in the cynical ‘Peace to Prosperity’ plan, he is actually helping Netanyahu destroy Israel, the European colony in Palestine. Palestinian envoy to Britain Husam Zomlot said the announcement was a “piece of political theatre” and will push the situation “over the cliff[…]

Netanyahu and Trump Must Learn the Lessons of Apartheid South Africa

February 28, 2020 UNAC Editor Israel, Palestine, South Africa, US Hypocrisy

by Ronnie Kasrils, published on Middle East Eye, February 24, 2020 To South Africans, US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”, handed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a silver platter, looks like the clone of an apartheid state. Hendrik Verwoerd, the former South African prime minister and architect of apartheid, stated as far back as 1961: “The[…]