Brooklyn Mzwanele Mayekiso was an organizer and leader in building one of the more remarkable civic associations, the Alexandra Action Committee, in a large township during the tumultuous years that finally toppled apartheid in South Africa twenty years ago in 1994. He did three years with other activists in prison during that period accused of …
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Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Crossroads for Israel
New Orleans There are some issues that are such minefields that good judgment and unusual restraint convince me that it’s best to keep any opinions personal and put a sock in it. The highly contentious questions about the condition of the state of Israel fall firmly in that camp. Unfortunately, in the same way that …