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


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