From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Note by the United Nations Centre against Apartheid | African National Congress Website | 1983 The cultural boycott of South Africa became an important aspect of the anti-apartheid movement in 1961 when the British Musicians Union adopted a policy decision that its members should not perform in South Africa as long as apartheid exists. In 1963, forty-five prominent British playwrights signed a Declaration announcing that they had instructed their agents to insert a clause in all future contracts automatically refusing performing rights in any theatre "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) African National Congress (ANC) | African National Congress Website | Lusaka, May 1989 1.1. The cultural and academic boycott were conceived as important aspects of the ANC's strategy for the total isolation of the racist minority regime. After intensive campaigns, conducted by our movement and people, with the support of the world's anti-apartheid forces, the UN and other international agencies, cultural, sporting, academic and other contacts between the international community and apartheid South Africa are today reduced to a bare minimum.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mazin B. Qumsiyeh | New Haven Register | 27 July 2004 THE United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly last week to accept the ruling of the International Court of Justice on Israel’s apartheid wall and demand Israel dismantle it. The vote was 150-6, the dissenters being the United States, Israel, Australia, and three U.S.-dependent island states. The wall literally makes concrete the colonization of roughly 30-40 percent more of the 22 percent of Palestine that remains.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nathan Guttman | Ha'aretz | 22 July 2004 WASHINGTON - The Presbyterian Church's 216th General Assembly caught American Jewish organizations off guard and by surprise. The Presbyterians have never concealed their criticism of Israeli policies in the territories, but years of dialogue between Jews and Presbyterians had created an impression of an understanding between the communities. Hence U.S. Jewish leaders were astonished to find that the Presbyterian Church has adopted the most censorious decisions ever embraced by any Christian denomination in the United States against Israel.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mazin Qumsiyeh | Qumsiyeh: A Human Rights Web | July 2004 On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to accept the ruling of the International court of Justice on Israel’s apartheid wall and demand Israel dismantle it. The vote was 150 countries in support and six against (US, Israel, Australia, and three US dependent Island states). The wall literally makes concrete the colonization of roughly 30-40% more of the 22% of Palestine that remains.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent | Ha'aretz | 19 July 2004 Justice Minister Yosef Lapid warned Sunday that Israel is on the verge of becoming an international pariah and urged the government not to ignore the International Court of Justice. "The Hague court, groups like Amnesty, and United Nations committees, act as a kind of global high court that, while they do not have to be liked, cannot be ignored,"
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Melissa Radler | Jerusalem Post | 17 July 2004 Leaders of the Presbyterian Church in the US approved a divestment campaign against Israel in a series of annual resolutions that included a condemnation of Israel's security fence, a decision to continue funding churches aimed at converting Jews to Christianity and a disavowal of Christian Zionism as a legitimate theological stance. In a vote of 431 to 62, the 216th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA compared Israel's policies to those of South Africa and approved gathering data to support a selective divestment of holdings in multinational corporations doing business in Israel/ Palestine, a July 2 church release noted.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gerald Kaufman | The Guardian | 12 July 2004 What worked with apartheid can bring peace to the Middle East. The bomb attack in Tel Aviv yesterday highlights the desperate need to achieve a peace settlement. It highlights, too, the futility of the wall Israel is building in Palestinian land, a wall condemned by the international court of justice last Friday and whose route was condemned by Israel's supreme court last month.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Eric J. Greenberg | Forward | 16 July 2004 In an unprecedented victory for pro-Palestinian activists, leaders of the largest Presbyterian denomination officially equated the Jewish state with apartheid South Africa and have voted to stop investing in Israel. With the decision, approved in a 431-62 vote at the 216th annual General Assembly of Presbyterian Church (USA), the church, boasting nearly 3 million members, is believed to be the largest organization or institution to join the fledgling divestment campaign against Israel.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ori Golan | Times Higher Education Supplement | 16 July 2004 UK academic Stephen Rose has renewed calls for an international academic boycott of Israeli universities at a conference to find solutions to Israeli-Palestinian hostilities. Professor Rose, a founder of the international academic boycott campaign, read out a letter from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel at the opening session of a conference on solutions to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, held in Brussels.