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Jason Kenney is borrowing from Israel's anti-BDS playbook to take down environmentalists who threaten Alberta's oil industry
Michael Bueckert
Montreal
Vice President at @CJPME. I have a PhD in Sociology from @Carleton_U. Co-editor “Advocating for Palestine in Canada” (@fernpub 2022). Birder.
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View as a gridThe post Trump fortunes of South Africa's white nationalists
africasacountry.com
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From Donald Trump's Tweet to AfriForum in Parliament, South Africa's white nationalists have finally found themselves in the spotlight-but nobody likes what they see. As the de-facto leader of the right-wing opposition to land reform in South Africa, AfriForum's deputy CEO Ernst Roets recently appeared before the South African Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee to provide a high-profile presentation outlining the objections of the white community to "expropriation without compensation."
Flight of the Boers
africasacountry.com
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South Africa's lead anti-land reform organization is cultivating its relationship with the international far right. The South African organization AfriForum is having a moment. The nearly 200,000-member-strong Afrikaner rights group has received considerable media attention for its campaign against "expropriation without compensation" (a land reform proposal that would address the concentration of land ownership by white owners), a campaign which Afriforum has started to take overseas.
No platform for Apartheid
africasacountry.com
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30 years ago, free speech advocates were more willing to tolerate far-right voices than oppose them. It's now happening again. In February 1986, the Ottawa Citizen, publishedin Canada's federal capital, ran an opinion piece by its publisher Paddy Sherman titled "The ban-happy folks at Mindless U."
Searching for white genocide in South Africa
africasacountry.com
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"I'm going to South Africa," far-right UK media personality Katie Hopkins announced in January 2018, to cover the "racial war waged by black extremists who are systematically murdering white farmers." Recently hired as a correspondent by the Rebel Media, Canada's far-right website akin to Breitbart, Hopkins promised her feature length documentary about the "ethnic cleansing of white farmers" in South Africa would be the "first of its kind."
Paul Kagame and Benjamin Netanyahu are enablers of each other's worst behavior
africasacountry.com
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On Sunday, Israel's immigration authorities announced it had started issuing migrants letters advising them they had 60 days in which to "voluntarily" leave the country. Since many of them - Sudanese and Eritreans especially - can't return to their countries of origin for fear of being tortured or death, it is unclear where they'll go.
Verwoerd in Jerusalem
africasacountry.com
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US President Donald Trump's recent declaration recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has sparked international concern that a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine is at risk. António Guterres, United Nations Secretary General, emphasized the severity of this situation when he warned: "in this moment of great anxiety, I want to make it clear: There is no alternative to the two-state solution.
Release the Trolls
jacobinmag.com
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Israel is weaponizing social media in order to wage a propaganda war against BDS. In New York City in June 2017, the Israeli minister of strategic affairs Gilad Erdan stood in front of a crowd celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the annexation of East Jerusalem.