News Highlights:
- Israeli forces shoot 12-year-old Palestinian boy along the Gaza-Israel border, as he was collecting scrap gravel; Human rights groups say 14 Palestinian teens have been wounded in incidents since March of this year, in an area ranging from 50 to 800 metres from the border in Israel’s self-declared no-go zone
- Dozens suffer from tear gas inhalation during the weekly protests in the Palestinian villages of Bilin and Nilin; Bilin leader Abdullah Abu Rahma is still being held in Israeli jail despite his prison term finishing
- Israeli authorities give preliminary approval for 130 new settler units in occupied East Jerusalem
- WikiLeaks exposes Israel’s covert relations with the Gulf States, in particular UAE and Saudi Arabia
Feature:
A live interview with Prof. Nada Elia, a member of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Prof. Elia explained why she felt the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel was so important, why it developed and how it was a grassroots movement that anyone could participate in. She analyzed the comparisons with the South African experience in fighting apartheid and detailed how they laid a lot of the groundwork for such boycott movements. She concluded by calling on listeners to support the BDS movement in whatever capacity they could, as we could clearly not count on governments to fight for peace with justice for the Palestinians.
Focus on Zionism:
Highlights of comments by Palestinian leader Dr. Mustafa Bargouthi on the Int’l Day of Solidarity with the Palestinians, marked annually on Nov. 29th. Dr. Bargouthi called for recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state and Palestinian unity.
Here is an audio file of this show: