Continued…..Many have described the Gaza Strip as an open-air prison or a concentration camp. It is home to more than 2 million people, half of whom are under 18 years old. Israel’s attacks have targeted sites, such as hospitals and refugee camps. Most United Nations member-states have condemned Israel in a UN General Assembly resolution, but the United States blocked two UN Security Council resolutions in mid-October that would have alleviated Palestinian suffering.

However, it goes beyond the UN. The bombs dropped on Gaza are US-made. The United States funds Israel to the tune of $3.8 billion annually and has been the largest funder of the Zionist state since after World War II. Anti-Israel sentiment, as well as Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) activism, are heavily censored and punished in US society. As international outrage grows, however, it remains to be seen whether that will make the US government yield.

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CAN KYIV WIN PR WAR IN AFRICA?

Ukraine has said that it is planning a diplomatic counter-offensive against Russia’s growing influence in Africa. But will the NATO ally be able to woo the continent’s leaders?

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BLACK PANTHER ON ARMED SELF-DEFENCE

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 had a profound impact on many young Africans in America, and shook the civil-rights movement to its core.

Those who had looked up to King and his philosophy of non-violence began questioning its effectiveness as a means of achieving racial equality. They felt that years of peaceful resistance had failed to end the brutality and discrimination they faced.

This led to the emergence of more militant and confrontational movements within the civil-rights struggle, such as the Black Panther Party. In this clip, co-founder Bobby Seale advocates armed self-defence and community empowerment.

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THE AFRICAN HOLOCAUSTS

Do you know about the African holocausts? Author and historian Dr Yosef Ben Jochannan breaks them down. In his 1972 speech, he addressed the atrocities and genocide of Africans during the pre-colonial period. Belgium’s King Leopold II, the United Kingdom’s Cecil Rhodes, among others, murdered millions of Africans who lived in present-day Congo and South Africa. However, the accounts of their killings had not been recorded, so many people know only about one holocaust that occurred in Europe.

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PUPPET SHOW TAKES ON APARTHEID ISRAEL

Many refuse to accept Israel is practicing apartheid against the Palestinian people. This comes despite credible organisations, such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, calling Israel an apartheid state and comparing Israel to apartheid-era South Africa.

It is also important to remember Israel does not only share similarities with the South African apartheid regime. During the apartheid era in South Africa, the two states had a strong military collaboration, in which Israel supplied South Africa with equipment that was used to suppress Black South Africans. Tel Aviv also helped the regime circumvent international sanctions that had been imposed to bring down the apartheid system.

Continued….This clip from the British satiric puppet programme, ‘Spitting Image,’ which aired in approximately 1990, used a puppet of then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to present statistics that demonstrated Israel is, indeed, an apartheid state.

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KONGO ROOTS OF LATIN DANCES

Latin-American dances and music styles are famous the world over - but less so, their African origins. One clue to these is in the names for these styles and dances. Etymologically, words like ‘samba,’ ‘tango’ and ‘rumba’ can be traced back to Kikongo, spoken by the Kongo people of Central Africa, who were brought over to the Americas as slaves. With them, they brought their language and rich cultural practices. African Stream’s Inem Richardson digs deeper into the African roots - linguistic and cultural - of Latin-American rhythms and vibes.

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CHRISTIAN ZIONISM IN AFRICA WHY SO STRONG?

Africa has a long history of racism and colonialism, so it’s quite surprising to find many Africans who support Zionism—despite its racist roots. We dug into the root cause of this phenomenon by talking to an Anglican minister who is no stranger to the subject: Stephen Sizer. He is the author of “Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon.” He explains how foreign funding forces African churches to align their doctrines with Christian Zionist benefactors in the United States. Sizer also calls for a return to the authentic faith initiated by Jesus—that of peacemakers, not widowmakers. A faith that embraces all regardless of race, tribe, social status, or other criteria.

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MANDELA: YOUR ENEMIES ARE NOT OUR ENEMIES!

Mandela’s timeless advice to the West: Your enemies are not our enemies! Watch a U.S. TV audience roar as the anti-apartheid hero and former President of South Africa effortlessly demolishes a critic who tried to get him to disown leaders despised by Western nations.

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EGYPT’S PREZ: ISRAELI WAR = ‘COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT’

Egypt’s president recently condemned what he calls Tel Aviv’s “collective punishment” of Palestinians, saying that the lethal Israeli bombing campaign (and now ground campaign) goes “beyond self-defence.”

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was speaking to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who flew to Cairo mid-last month to discuss Israel’s war on Gaza and the resultant humanitarian catastrophe.

A limited number of people with dual citizenship have been allowed to leave Gaza via the Rafah crossing into Egypt. Aid supplies are still only trickling in.

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GAS IN GAZA?

Israel has continued to kill hundreds of Palestinians every day since it launched its bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip following a Hamas attack on 7 October in Israel. Despite widespread condemnation, Tel Aviv has been relentless in its efforts to annihilate the besieged territory. At face value, one might think that the only motivation for its acts is to further its expansionist ambitions. However, journalist Richard Medhurst recently said a more sinister economic scheme is brewing in the background. According to Medhurst, the ongoing attack on Gaza is part of a plot by Israel and the US to take control of the enclave’s gas reserves and create a highway from Asia to Europe to rival China’s new Silk Road project.