Israeli apartheid week kicks off in Gaza

The events of the international week against Israel’s apartheid started on Saturday in the Gaza Strip and will continue until next Thursday.

Iman Sourani, a member of the preparatory committee for the week in Gaza, said the anti-apartheid events would take place in 250 cities around the world and they would be intended to expose Israel’s segregation practices against the Palestinians.

Sourani affirmed that the committee tries to pool its efforts with the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, noting that the events would include meetings with parties and groups supporting the Palestinian cause.

She also pointed out that meetings would be held online with students from Johannesburg university in South Africa because it was the first university that academically boycotted Ben-Gurion university.

The anti-apartheid week will include interviews with South African singers who released two albums against Israel’s segregation system.

The international campaign against Israel’s apartheid started for the first time in the Canadian city of Toronto nine years ago before other cities worldwide gradually joined it.