Israel, the Palestinians & Apartheid

Please would you spread the word around about this important meeting in Leeds?

For anyone looking for information about Ronnie Kasrils, I would suggest that they follow this link to his speech to the South African Parliament on the 40th anniversary of the Nakba.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7010.shtml

which includes this quote from Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion:

"Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader, I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: We have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them. Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, its true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis ... but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we came here and stole their country."

best wishes,

Daniel

Israel, the Palestinians & Apartheid     THE CASE FOR BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT &  SANCTIONS   Tue 8th Dec, 7pm  Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Leeds University   Speakers:   Ronnie Kasrils (former minister in Nelson Mandela's ANC government & anti-Apartheid activist)   Bongani Masuku (International Secretary) &  George Mahlangu  (Campaigns Coordinator)  COSATU - the South African trade union federation   Omar Barghouti (Palestinian Campaign for Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions)   Chair: Gavin Reid (Leeds University UCU)     'What do I see and hear in the Holy Land?'   'Some people cannot move freely from one place to another. A wall separates them from their families and from their incomes. They cannot tend to their gardens at home or to their lessons at school. They are arbitrarily demeaned at checkpoints and unnecessarily beleaguered by capricious applications of bureaucratic red tape.   'I have to tell the truth: I am reminded of the yoke of oppression that was once our burden in South Africa.'   (Archbishop Desmond Tutu, CHAIR of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Nobel Peace Prize laureate)