25 May 2017
South Africa’s deputy president joined fast in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers. Read more about Israel treats prisoners worse than apartheid, says Robben Island veteran
28 March 2017
A lifelong comrade and fellow prisoner with Nelson Mandela, Kathrada was unflinching in his support for the Palestinian struggle. Read more about Ahmed Kathrada, icon of South Africa's freedom struggle, dies
1 August 2014
Dozens of Palestinian and international civil society and solidarity organizations are calling on people around the world to take actions to press Egypt to end its support for Israel’s siege and slaughter in Gaza. Read more about Urgent call to action: Tell Egypt to end Gaza siege, refuse complicity in Israeli genocide
6 June 2014
The news comes after dozens of campaigners disrupted the prison profiteer’s annual shareholder meeting in London. Read more about G4S "to end" Israel prison contracts as pressure mounts over torture complicity
21 March 2014
University of Michigan students engage in a sit-in after the student government tables a divestment vote “indefinitely”; Max Geller of Northeastern SJP talks about repression of student activism by the administration and right-wing groups; and a report from Gaza during Israeli Apartheid Week. Read more about US students resist repression of Palestine solidarity on campus
6 May 2013
Kathrada, who recently returned from Palestine, writes to Freeman that “Israel is indeed an apartheid state. And in certain respects it is worse than apartheid.” Read more about Mandela’s fellow prisoner Ahmed Kathrada urges Morgan Freeman to pull out of Hebrew University fundraiser
23 February 2012
An increasing number of organizations endorse the call to make 17 April a Day of International Action. Richard Falk and South African former political prisoners who resisted apartheid have added their weight to the call. Read more about Growing support for international action on Palestinian Political Prisoners Day