Apartheid Then and Now:
A Conversation with South African and Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Activists.
Wednesday, 10 March 2021
10am PT, 1pm ET (US, Canada) / 6pm UTC / 8pm Palestine
What is apartheid? How are the South African and Palestinian experiences the same? And different? How can and should apartheid be opposed?
Kelvin Sauls was born and raised in townships
south of Johannesburg, South Africa and became
a leader in the anti-apartheid movement through
his local Methodist Youth Fellowship. After a
career in pastoral ministry he now serves as the
Network Strategist at Community Health
Councils in Los Angeles and is a Senior Fellow
with the Atlantic Institute for Racial Equity
where he is engaged in faith-rooted multi-racial
and multi-faith community organizing through s
acred resistance and moral re-imagination. Rev. Sauls hosts a monthly podcast, “Faith Without Borders,” is a Co-Founder of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration https://baji.org/ and serves on the boards of multiple movement-building organizations working towards a more just, fairer and inclusive society. After a 2008 Holy Land pilgrimage, he joined the United Methodist effort to oppose the occupation of Palestine.
Sandra Tamari is a Palestinian, a lifelong advocate
for Palestinian rights. In 2012, Israel barred her
from entering Palestine because of her activism.
A specialist in Arab studies and education, she is
currently the Executive Director of the Adalah
Justice Project, a Palestinian advocacy
organization based in the U.S. that incorporates
the struggle for Palestinian rights into existing
liberation movements around the world.
Sandra, based in St Louis, organized the
Palestinian contingent to Ferguson in 2014
in response to the killing of Mike Brown. She
was co-chair of the Steering Committee for the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights from 2015-2018.
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LINKS AND INFORMATION FROM THE WEBINAR
The International Convention on the Suppresssion and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, adopted by the United Nations in 1973
https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/cspca/cspca.html
Download it here > see the definition of Apartheid in Article II.
On our website:
• 2009 Report on Israeli apartheid regime in the Occupied Palestinian Territories commissioned by the South African government: see it here
• 2017 Report on Israeli apartheid for a United Nations commission: see it here
Paper from B’Tselem, the Israeli Human Rights Center,
January 2021:
"A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid"
https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is_apartheid
Nathan Thrall's 2021 article in The London Review of Books:
"The Separate Regimes Delusion"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n02/nathan-thrall/the-separate-regimes-delusion
Video of South African theologian Farid Esack's
"Open Letter to the Palestinian People"
His belief that Palestinians are living under apartheid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1skU_nVaMl8