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- Russell Tribunal: A legal farce and total failure - GIDON SHAVIV, SABC, 10.11.2011 The Russell Tribunal not only was an embarrassing failure, but just the type of event that makes coexistence and peace more difficult to achieve in the region. Instead of promoting constructive dialogue, the Tribunal was little more than an expensive PR stunt whose sole purpose was to perpetuate the Durban strategy of delegitimisation.
- Proof Israel Is Not Racist - DON KRAUTS, Time Live 10.11.2011 Zoabi is not Jewish. If she is an Arab, then her parliamentary membership proves that Israel cannot be racist and allows its erstwhile enemies to participate in the democratic governing of the country, despite the manifold threats and continuing attacks against it from Arabs.
- Kangaroos in South Africa - ROLENE MARKS, Jerusalem Post 9.11.2011 Apartheid is a sexy catchword to denounce Israel, but it makes a mockery of and cheapens the tremendous suffering endured by South Africa’s black citizens.
- Demonisation and provocation EDITORIAL, BusinessDay, 7.11.2011 But the comparison with apartheid is a superficial one, as respected South African jurist Richard Goldstone noted in the New York Times recently. Israel does not practise apartheid in the sense of having codified discrimination against groups on the basis of their race or ethnicity. Israeli Arabs, a significant 20% of the population, are fully enfranchised, active participants in the institutions of the robust democracy, and are represented in the Knesset across a range of political parties.
- Lurid political theatre, RUDY MASSIN, The Citizen, 7.11.2011 Actors have rehearsed their lines and body language; sets are prepared, and the storyline and its conclusion are known well before the first curtain rises. So it is with the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.
- Desmond Tutu, How far you have fallen!! News 24, 6.11.2011 This is a note I have been meaning to write for a very long time. The Russell Tribunal, which took place in Cape Town yesterday, has pushed me over the edge. It is an utter disgrace that such an event can take place on South African soil, let alone be hosted by the so-called moral barometer for the world, Desmond Tutu.
- Russell Tribunal a 'kangaroo court', PHILANI NOMBEMBE, Times online, 7.11.2011 "We are here because we believe the process is patently unfair. This Russell Tribunal . has on it everyone who has already taken an anti-Israeli position," said Fischer.
- Israel and the Apartheid Slander - RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE, New York Times 31.10.2011 Goldstone: "While “apartheid” can have broader meaning, its use is meant to evoke the situation in pre-1994 South Africa. It is an unfair and inaccurate slander against Israel, calculated to retard rather than advance peace negotiations."
- The Russell Tribunal on Palestine dishonours victims of apartheid - ROBIN SHEPARD, Mail & Guardian Online, Nov 4 2011.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this weekend's Russell Tribunal on Palestine, which will designate Israel an "apartheid" state as sure as night ...
- Lies told about Israel are beyond belief - BENJAMIN POGRUND, Times 30.10.2011 Pogrund: "It's theatre: the actors know their parts and the result is known before they start. Israel is to be dragged into the mud. If anyone is in any doubt, look at the players: almost without exception, everyone has a publicly known - and hostile - stance towards Israel. Their motivations might vary, but the message they pump is the same."
- Calling Israel a racist state is absurd and immoral - Simon Deng, former Slave
- Is Israel The New Apartheid? - BENJAMIN POGRUND, Blitz, 23.09.2011 Pogrund: "But always remember: Israel/Palestine is not South Africa: there is a different history, different peoples, different cultures, different religious determinants, and different aspirations. Offer help, but please be wise, careful and modest."
- Russell Tribunal Is No More Than A Stalinst Show Trial - JUDGE DENNIS DAVIS, South Africa Jewish report, 28.10.2011 Davis: "Only well-known opponents of Israel will participate; no impartial judges without any public record of opposition to Israel will hear the case. Similarly, the jury which will determine the “case” will hardly be a random group of disinterested citizens. Within this abomination of due process, it becomes impossible to expect a defence team to articulate the other side or to lead witnesses confident of a fair hearing."
- Tribunala quasi-judicial farce - DAVID SAKS, The Star 2.11.2011 It can safely be said that no one is waiting with bated breath to see what theconclusion will be. For all that it cloaks itself in a veneer of due legalprocess, the tribunal very obviously intends conducting itself on a “verdictfirst, trial afterwards” basis.
