The Cambridge City Council in Massachusetts unanimously passed a resolution regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that removed a provision promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
There’s been multiple BDS victories over the past week or so. Let’s round them up.
South Africa
South African dockworkers refused to off-load cargo from an Israeli vessel in the port city of Durban. The workers are members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union and were acting in solidarity with a call from the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions.
“We do not want Israeli ships or goods in South African ports and shops,” a member of the South African BDS Coalition told
Middle East Eye. “We salute our dockworkers and will continue to work in struggle with them to ensure that South Africa becomes an ‘apartheid free zone’.”
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BOSTON Growing up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Lea Kayali bonded with her Palestinian grandmother by making maqluba, a traditional Palestinian dish typically consisting of meat, rice and fried vegetables.
Their time spent together in the kitchen also helped Kayali, a 24-year-old Boston-based Palestinian American activist, feel closer to the country from which her grandmother was forced to flee as a child. As a 4- or 5-year-old girl, Kayali’s grandmother fled during the 1947-1948 Nakba or “catastrophe” in Arabic when an estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes following Israel’s declaration of independence from British control of the land, which prompted the first war between Israel and Palestine.