Middle East
The Flame, October-November 2010 -- Green Left Weekly's Arabic-language supplement
Soubhi Iskander.
November 2, 2010 -- With the help of Socialist Alliance members in the growing Sudanese community in Australia, Green Left Weekly -- Australia's leading socialist newspaper -- publishes a regular Arabic language supplement. The Flame covers news from the Arabic-speaking world as well as news and issues from within Australia. Editor-in-chief is Soubhi Iskander is a comrade who has endured years of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the repressive government in Sudan.
Turning the tide of oil in US and world politics
By Dan La Botz
Palestine: BDS movement recalls anti-apartheid tactics, responsibilities and controversies
Apartheid Wall, near Jerusalem. Photo by Patrick Bond.
By Patrick Bond, Ramallah
October 13, 2010 -- On a full-day drive through the Jordan Valley late last month, we skirted the Earth’s oldest city and lowest inhabited point, 400 metres below sea level. For 10,000 years, people have lived along the river that separates the present-day West Bank and Jordan.
Since 1967 the river has been augmented by Palestinian blood, sweat and tears, ending in the Dead Sea, from which no water flows; it only evaporates. Conditions degenerated during Israel’s land-grab, when from a peak of more than 300,000 people living on the west side of the river, displacements shoved Palestinian refugees across into Jordan and other parts of the West Bank. The valley has fewer than 60,000 Palestinians today.
In defence of South African academics' successful call for a boycott of Israel
Drawing comparisons to South African apartheid policies: Israel requires Palestinians to carry identification documents that restrict their movement. UN photo.
By the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
Occupied Ramallah, September 30, 2010 -- PACBI welcomes the decision[1] on September 29, 2010, by the Senate of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) "not
to continue a long-standing relationship with Ben Gurion University
(BGU) in Israel in its present form" and to set conditions "for the
relationship to continue". The fact that the UJ Senate set an ultimatum[2] of six months for BGU to end its complicity with the occupation army
and to end policies of racial discrimination against Palestinians is a
truly significant departure from the business-as-usual attitude that had
governed agreements between the two institutions until recently.
The Flame, August 2010 -- Green Left Weekly's Arabic-language supplement
Why the left should support the boycott of Israel -- a reply to the US Socialist Workers Party
Report reveals International Trade Union Confederation's pro-Israel bias
The Flame, June-July 2010 -- Green Left Weekly's Arabic-language supplement
Asian left: `Lift the siege on Gaza! Support boycott, divestment and sanctions on apartheid Israel'
Statement by Asian left organisations
[To add your organisation’s endorsement, please email: international@socialist-alliance.org.]
June 25, 2010 -- As Israel stands increasingly isolated following its manufactured confrontation on May 31, 2010, with the peace flotilla in which nine Turkish activists on the Mavi Marmara were murdered, now is the time to increase the pressure on Israel to lift the siege of Gaza.
Israel’s criminal blockade of Gaza is aimed to collectively punish 1.5 million Gazans for their choice of government.
The attack on the flotilla was aimed at demoralising Palestinians and their supporters. But, as we've seen from the global protests – particularly in Turkey and the Arab world – it has backfired on the Netanyahu government. Turkey, once a close political and military ally, has now distanced itself from Israel and supports attempts to break the Gaza blockade.
