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We shall remember 2021 for years to come as the year Israel’s designation as an apartheid state started to mainstream. Despite Israel’s intensified massacres and ethnic cleansing of Indigenous Palestinian communities, solidarity with our liberation struggle was simply unprecedented in 2021.    Here are 21 highlights of this unprecedented solidarity:

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights conveys its deepest condolences to South Africans, to Palestinians, and to all humans for the departure of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, a true prophet of justice and peace.

As the call grows louder, let’s take a look back at 13 major BDS impacts this year alone which propelled us closer to our South Africa moment: 1. Namibia and South Africa, where apartheid was defeated in the past, as well as Malaysia, have raised attention in the UN system about Israel’s 21st-century apartheid. 2. British Labour Party conference voted overwhelmingly in favor of condemning Israeli apartheid and calling for sanctions against it.

For decades, Palestinians have known that Israel’s colonial regime amounts to the crime of apartheid. This year, states and civil society from across the world have joined Palestinians in calling for a UN investigation of Israel’s apartheid. Help us strengthen our fight against apartheid. Donate now!

"Never has a competition for the title of Miss Universe sparked so much political controversy."  That’s how an article in Le Monde described apartheid Israel’s hosting of the international beauty pageant, taking place tonight in the ruins of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village.

This year has seen an unprecedented number of artists, scholars and athletes speaking out and taking meaningful actions of solidarity with Palestinian rights, horrified at Israel’s latest massacres in besieged Gaza during May that killed more than forty women and sixty children.

Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) and the Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism, Racism, Colonialism & Censorship in Canada (ARC) applaud the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) for adopting a motion today to protect academic freedom on Israel-Palestine. The motion takes aim at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism (IHRA-WDA), which has been the subject of protest for equating criticisms of the state of Israel with antisemitism.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) warmly welcomes the unprecedented, near-consensus vote (93%) at the annual business meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) to advance a motion to the full MESA membership supporting the Palestinian-led BDS movement and the institutional boycott of complicit Israeli universities.

For decades, Palestinians have condemned Israel’s colonial regime as including the crime of apartheid.

Friday, 26th November, marked one year since farmers from across India, represented by our allies All India Kisan Sabha and other organizations under the united platform of Samyukta Kisan Morcha, launched their inspiring struggle against neoliberal laws newly introduced by the far-right Modi government. The farmers’ demands include the repeal of these laws that sought to legalize already entrenched corporate control of Indian agriculture.

Apartheid is a crime against humanity. States and international organizations, foremost the United Nations, have a legal obligation to give no recognition or assistance to an apartheid regime, and to act to bring it to an end. Individuals responsible for the crime are to face prosecution and punishment by domestic courts or the International Criminal Court.