Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
4 April
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BLACK OPS' AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN ANTI-APARTHEID AND PALESTINIAN BDS
On this day in 1976, the president of the Young Liberals, Peter Hain, was acquitted of robbing a Barclays bank branch after a ten day trial. The South African Embassy had got a lookalike to rob the bank and then called the police. Fast forward to 2020. Israeli journalist Yossi Melman reports that the Israeli Ministry combatting BDS carries out “special operations” or “black ops”, which may include “defamation campaigns, harassment and threats to the lives of activists” as well as “infringing on and violating their privacy.”
حملات التشوية لأهالي جنوب افريقيا المناوئين للابارثايد شابهت مثيلاتها ضد الفلسطينيين الداعين لمقاطعة إسرائيل.
4 أبريل
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 1976 ، تمت تبرئة رئيس "الليبراليين الشباب" ، بيتر هاين ، من سرقة فرع بنك باركليز بعد محاكمة استمرت عشرة أيام. حصلت سفارة جنوب إفريقيا على شبيه لسرقة البنك ثم اتصلت بالشرطة. ولنتقدم سريعًا إلى عام2020: أفاد الصحفي الإسرائيلي يوسي ميلمان أن الوزارة الإسرائيلية التي تكافح حركة المقاطعة تنفذ "عمليات خاصة" أو "عمليات سوداء" ، والتي قد تشمل "حملات تشهير ومضايقات وتهديدات لحياة النشطاء" وكذلك "التعدي على وانتهاك خصوصيتهم ".
A man robbed a branch of Barclays Bank in Putney, south-west London, at a time when Hain was a noted activist campaigning against the South African apartheid system. Hain was prosecuted for the robbery but acquitted of stealing £490 after a ten day trial when various anomalies in the Police case became clear. It was later claimed in his book Inside BOSS by the former South African agent Gordon Winter that the South African security service BOSS had arranged for the bank to be robbed by a double of Hain in order to get him framed for the theft.