Published first in the Palestine Chronicle. By Samah Sabawi (Full Transcript. Excerpts from this speech were presented at the University of Sydney Australia during Israeli Apartheid Week 2012.) I would like to talk about normalization. I found the best definition of the word normalization on the Palestinian Campaign for Cultural and Academic Boycott’s website: “Normalization [...]
Occupied Palestine, 16 August 2011- The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the broadest Palestinian civil society coalition and the Palestinian leadership of the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, commends human rights and Palestine solidarity organizations across Australia who signed a unity statement reiterating their support for BDS as the most [...]
From Australians for Palestine: The AFL Peace Team has already arrived in Australia to participate in this year’s AFL International Cup. It is being held up to Australians and the world as demonstrating that Israelis and Palestinians can work together for peace in Israel/Palestine. Samah Sabawi’s article below shows that all is not what it [...]
The following article, by Samah Sabawi, a Palestinian woman in Australia and the Public Advocate for Australians for Palestine, was published on Mondoweiss: by Samah Sabawi Naomi Chazan, the President of the New Israel Fund (NIF) gave a talk in Marrickville, New South Wales, during her recent Australian tour offering a critique of the Palestinian [...]
USACBI supports the Boycott-Israel 19 Defense Campaign in Australia, following upon the police harassment, brutality and arrests against a mass peaceful BDS demonstration in Melbourne. You can sign on at the Defense Campaign’s website, or email boycottisrael19@gmail.com. Video of the police attack: Stand up for Palestinian human rights! Stand up for civil rights in Victoria! [...]
Sunday, October 3, 2010 By Patrick Harrison Over October 29-31, Palestinian solidarity activists from around Australia and the world will meet for the first national boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) conference. The call for a global boycott campaign against Israel was first launched in July 2005. It has become a big part of the movement [...]
by Antony Loewenstein – EurekaStreet – 3 September 2010 The Australian Jewish News (AJN) was outraged. Its editorial in late July condemned the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) for a resolution calling on Australians to boycott Israeli goods made in the occupied Palestinian territories. The AJN wrote that the move contributed to a [...]
Filmmakers pull movie at Melbourne International Festival over Israeli government funding for coach plane ticket. By Rik McKenzie The Melbourne International Film Festival is a marquee event on the cultural calendar of Australia, in what some would call the world’s most livable and multicultural city. Once again, it was struck by controversy with independent film [...]
Following the current controversy over the Melbourne Film Festival accepting money from the Zionist state, the Jewish News includes a very revealing and fearful quote: Zionist Federation of Australia president Philip Chester has spoken out against an attempt by the makers of the film Son of Babylon to boycott the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) [...]
Building Solidarity, Combating Occupation and Apartheid National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference Melbourne, 29 – 31 October 2010 – activism in support of Palestine – Dear friends and supporters, Thank you for your emails and words of support. We have been overwhelmed and delighted by the positive response to the conference call. We are currently [...]