Open Shuhada Street Lecture Series - Prof. Shamil Jeppie to speak on 27 July

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Seminar for Activists in Khayelitsha

OSS will be holding an educational seminar on Tuesday 13th July, 15h00-17h00 at Lookout Hill in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.

Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa

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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.

Open Gaza Now

We condemn the Israeli attack on the flotilla to Gaza and the blockade this attack seeks to enforce. The attack killed 9 people and the blockade has killed many more.

Clarification: Open Shuhada Street did not sign statement

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.

Educational lecture on the Goldstone Report

Please come and listen to Advocate Ismail Jamie explain the Goldstone Report on Thursday 3 June 2010 at 17h30 for 18h00 at the Book Lounge, corner of Buitenkant and Roeland streets in Cape Town.

 

"Israel’s attack on Goldstone belies Its own support of Apartheid"

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/

 

Reminder: Open Shuhada Street lecture series

If you are in Cape Town, please attend the upcoming Open Shuhada Street lectures at the Book Lounge (corner Buitenkant and Roeland streets). All lectures start at 17h30 for 18h00.

On Monday 24 May, Steven Friedman will discuss whether Israel should be boycotted. Dennis Davis will respond.

On Thursday 3 June, Ismail Jamie will explain the Goldstone report.

At both events there will be opportunity for discussion from the audience. These promise to be excellent, informative discussions. For further details, please call Ilan Strauss on +27 83 473 2080.

The Goldstone Bar Mitzvah saga from beginning to end (at least so far)

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

Cartoon by Jonathan Shapiro on Goldstone Saga

For more Zapiro cartoons visit, www.zapiro.com

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.

Letter by US rabbis to Judge Richard Goldstone

Dear Judge Goldstone,

As rabbis from diverse traditions and locations, we want to extend our warmest mazel tov to you as an elder in our community upon the Bar Mitzvah of your grandson. Bar and Bat Mitzvah is a call to conscience, a call to be responsible for the welfare of others, a call to fulfill the covenant of peace and justice articulated in our tradition.

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