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A new global movement is challenging Israel's violations of
international law with the same strategies that were used against
apartheid

The farce of the climate summit in Copenhagen
affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also
illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an
internationalism linking justice for the planet with universal human
rights, and criminal justice for those who invade and dispossess with
impunity. And the best news comes from Palestine.

The
Palestinians' resistance to the theft of their country reached a
critical moment in 2001 when a UN conference on racism in Durban, South
Africa, identified Israel as an apartheid state. To Nelson Mandela,
justice for the Palestinians is "the greatest moral issue of the age".
The Palestinian civil society call for boycott, disinvestment and
sanctions (BDS) was issued on 9 July 2005, in effect reconvening the
great, non-violent movement that swept the world and brought the
scaffolding of African apartheid crashing down.

“Through decades
of occupation and dispossession," wrote Mustafa Barghouti, a wise voice
of Palestinian politics, "90 per cent of the Palestinian struggle has
been non-violent . . . A new generation of Palestinian leaders [now
speaks] to the world precisely as Martin Luther King did. The same worl... >>>