Articles by Ronnie Kasrils

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I Fought South African Apartheid. I See the Same Brutal Policies in Israel
Ronnie Kasrils – The Guardian, 8 Apr 2019

3 Apr 2019 – As a Jewish South African anti-apartheid activist I look with horror on the far-right shift in Israel ahead of this month’s elections, and the impact in the Palestinian territories and worldwide. I was shut down in South Africa for speaking out, and I’m disturbed that the same is happening to critics of Israel now.

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Gaza and the ‘Crime of Crimes’
Ronnie Kasrils – Al Jazeera, 29 Sep 2014

Nelson Mandela frequently declared that “Palestine was the greatest moral issue of our time”. After we toppled the Apartheid regime in 1994, he went further, saying “We South Africans cannot consider ourselves free until the Palestinian People are free”.

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THE OTHER APARTHEID STATE
Ronnie Kasrils, 26 Jun 2009

May I start by quoting a South African who emphatically stated as far back as 1961, "The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state" (Rand Daily Mail, November 23, 1961). Those were not the words of Nelson Mandela, […]

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