Tag: apartheid

South African actress Charlize Theron has revealed she is considering leaving the United States because of a perceived increase in racism under the Trump administration.

TEL AVIV – The grandson of late South African president Nelson Mandela, an outspoken BDS advocate who is currently on a visit to Israel, declared the Jewish state to be “the worst apartheid regime.”

TEL AVIV – A children’s alphabet book titled “P is for Palestine” has had women from New York’s Upper East Side up in arms over what they say is nothing more than anti-Semitic propaganda.

TEL AVIV – Rocker Nick Cave said his decision to perform in Israel on Sunday and Monday was the direct result of the BDS movement which “bullies and censors” musicians.

TEL AVIV – Boy George shot down claims from BDS activists that his performance in Tel Aviv Tuesday night was tantamount to performing in South Africa during apartheid, saying the two weren’t comparable and that Israel was in his heart.

TEL AVIV – Nick Cave and his band are the latest targets of Roger Waters bullying campaign aimed at preventing the singer from playing in “apartheid” Israel next month.

TEL AVIV – An Arab Muslim citizen of Israel blasts the notion that the Jewish state is an “apartheid,” saying people should be “ashamed” for using that term to describe the only country in the Middle East that provides “freedom of belief, the right to educate, to elect and be elected” to all minorities.

As municipalities in deep-blue Maryland continue to grant legal and illegal aliens access to the ballot box, one leftist is pushing for a larger movement to combat the “mass disenfranchisement” of non-U.S. citizens in the Trump era.

A UN forum on the Palestinian issue on Friday provided a platform for anti-Zionist activists to promote the BDS campaign, claim that Israel practices “apartheid worse than South Africa,” and even – in the case of one Israeli Jewish speaker – proffer a formal apology for having taken up Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return.

The country’s relatively peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy inspired great expectations for its future. But now South Africa has entered a deep political and economic crisis for which it seems to have no easy answers.

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has joined a line-up of arts world figures urging British rock band Radiohead to scrap its upcoming show in Israel and “stay away, until apartheid is over.”

NEW YORK — Less than a month after its executive-secretary resigned over a controversial report describing Israel as an “apartheid regime,” the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia is reportedly writing another report, this time equating “50 years of Israeli occupation” to the United States’ history of slavery.

TEL AVIV – The head of a watchdog organization slammed Arab states at a UN Human Rights Council meeting for their “Orwellian” and “false” claims of Israeli “apartheid” while Arab nations have practiced apartheid against Jews for decades.

The Palestinian president has awarded his people’s highest honor to a former U.N. official who was forced to resign last week after authoring a report that accused Israel of establishing an “apartheid regime.”

TEL AVIV – Three NFL players have pulled out of a scheduled trip to Israel sponsored by the Israeli government following an open letter published by pro-Palestinian activists urging them to distance themselves from Israel’s “brutal” and “apartheid” policies.

Former Democratic vice presidential candidate and Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman says he believes Hillary Clinton will “restore some of the credibility to the United States, in the world, that we’ve lost in the last eight years,” under President Barack Obama.

TEL AVIV – The co-author of the new Movement for Black Lives platform that accuses Israel of “genocide” defended his decision to use the term in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

TEL AVIV – A Spanish constitutional tribunal recommended annulling a municipality’s motion calling for a boycott against Israel and declaring itself “a space free of Israeli apartheid,” The Times of Israel reported.

The head of the royal household of the Zulus has landed in the centre of a political storm after he made favourable comments about the former white minority government of South Africa. King Goodwill Zwelithini spoke while visiting a cattle auction and

During a Q&A at the New York Film Festival Sunday, director Michael Moore addressed Hollywood’s much publicized gender disparities, and compared a lack of female directors to a form of segregation.

The discovery of an allegedly new human ancestor in South Africa has prompted anti-apartheid activists to condemn those quick to make racial jokes about Homo Naledi, using the new fossil to compare black people to apes.

The National Iranian American Council organized the letter signed by seventy-three “international scholars” who favor the treaty—no, the deal—no, the deal with secret asides—no, the run-around Congress—no, President Obama’s cynical fait accompli—between Iran and America.

Israeli Christians are enrolling in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at a record pace. There could be as many as 200 in 2016.

Former South African President F. W. de Klerk, who shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela for his role in steering South Africa from apartheid to democracy, has protested the way the current South African government is treating minority Afrikaners. In a speech at the Voortrekker Monument–an important Afrikaner symbol–De Klerk said that Afrikaners had been made to feel overly guilty for the past, and argued that apartheid had not been a “crime against humanity.”