First Global Anti-Apartheid Conference on Palestine kicks off in South Africa

WORLD, May 10 (YPA) – The first Global Anti-Apartheid Conference on Palestine has kicked off on Friday, in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa from May 10 – 12, 2024.

This  conference aims to establish a global movement to dismantle the “Israeli colonial and apartheid regime.

“The global anti-apartheid conference is meant to critically look at the tragedy in Palestine & together develop strategies to end the genocide in Gaza, the 57 illegal occupation of Palestine and let Palestinians exercise their right to self-determination, ” Frank Chikane, President of The Global Anti-Apartheid Conference wrote  in a post on his X account .

The conference aims “to set the basis for the mobilisation of a Global Anti-Apartheid Movement to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian people, and to work to dismantle Israeli apartheid from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. This will see an intensification of the mobilisation, organisation and coordination for global action against Israeli apartheid.”

It’s worth noting that the conference will start with a speech by Naledi Pandor Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa, along with the participation of several speakers, including Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghouti, and a member of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland, Declan Kearney, among others.

Additionally, more than 200 religious, political, and party figures from around the world will participate in the conference.

This conference comes at a time when the Israeli aggression against Gaza has been ongoing since October 2023.

E.M