INVITATION TO BOOK LAUNCH

Sasha Polakow-Suransky's book, Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa , describes Israel and South Africa's close and covert military alliance with each other during the Apartheid era.

On 3 June 2010 the Coalition for a Free Palestine issued a statement titled "Palestinians welcome South Africa recall of ambassador". At the end of the statement, signed by a number of organisations, appeared the name 'Open Shuhada Street'. This was done in error. OSS did not consent for the use of the organisation's name for this statement. The Coalition for a Free Palestine have acknowledged the mistake in an e-mail to OSS. By way of clarifying OSS's position on the attack on the Gaza flotilla and the blockade of Gaza the organisation will be releasing its own statement shortly.

Richard Silverstein has written a blog exposing the hypocrisy of the latest attack on Judge Richard Goldstone. We recommend it.

Read it here:

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2010/05/19/israels-attack-on-goldstone-is-attack-on-its-own-record-of-support-for-apartheid-south-africa/

This article contains links to most of the publicly available documents on the Goldstone saga.

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On the night of Wednesday 14 October 2010 a major news story broke in wide circulation. The SA Jewish Report, released online, carried on page 3 the story that Justice Richard Goldstone, primary author of the Report that followed the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, had been “effectively barred” from attending his grandson’s bar mitzvah.