{"id":40937,"date":"2014-03-17T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=40937"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:10:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:10:58","slug":"archbishop-tutu-adds-voice-to-israeli-apartheid-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/03\/archbishop-tutu-adds-voice-to-israeli-apartheid-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Tutu Adds Voice to Israeli Apartheid Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Desmond<\/a>

Desmond Tutu<\/p><\/div>\n

9 Mar 2014<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who are denied their dignity and rights deserve the solidarity of their fellow human beings. Those who turn a blind eye to injustice actually perpetuate injustice. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor,\u201d<\/i> Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing in the Holy Land that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under Apartheid. I have witnessed the systemic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces.\u00a0 Their humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the Apartheid government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn South Africa, we could not have achieved our democracy without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the apartheid regime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe same issues of inequality and injustice today motivate the divestment movement trying to end Israel\u2019s decades long occupation of Palestinian territory and the unfair and prejudicial treatment of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government ruling over them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI associate myself with the objectives of the 10th international Israeli Apartheid Week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter where we worship or live. Jew, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, Atheist; Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Gaza \u2013 we are members of one family, the human family, God\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod bless you.\u201d<\/p>\n

____________________________<\/p>\n

Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid<\/a>. Tutu has been active in the defense of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. He has campaigned for the rights of Palestinians, to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia<\/a>, and transphobia<\/a>. Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism<\/a> in 1986; the Pacem in Terris Award<\/a> in 1987; the Sydney Peace Prize<\/a> in 1999; the Gandhi Peace Prize<\/a> in 2005;[1]<\/a><\/sup> and the Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/a> in 2009. He has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings.<\/i><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 tutu.org.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn South Africa, we could not have achieved our democracy without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the apartheid regime. I associate myself with the objectives of the 10th international Israeli Apartheid Week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nobel-laureates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}