COMMUNITY FORUM: Samah Sabawi, former MLC Sylvia Hale and Antony Loewenstein 13May11 May 18, 2011
Samah Sabawi, from Australians for Palestine, addressed a community forum in Holy Trinity Church Hall, Dulwich Hill, which was called by local residents to discuss the controversy (incited by Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd media empire) around a December 2010 decision by Marrickville Council to support the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid. Samah is introduced by Father Dave Smith, the local Anglican parish priest.
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Former Greens MLC Sylvia Hale dissected the NSW Greens’ stand in support of BDS and the struggle around the Marrickville Council position.
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Independent journalist and blogger Antony Loewenstein argued that the all out political attack on Marrickville Council’s support for BDS shows that the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions campaign against Israeli apartheid is taking off.
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Thank You.