
Farid Esack
Professor Farid Esack is a Board Member of BDS South Africa and teaches in the Department of Religion Studies at the University of Johannesburg. An edited and shorter version of this article appeared in the Sunday Independent on 26 January 2017.
Items by Farid Esack
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- February 28, 2017 Farid Esack
Aren’t protests about ‘anti-Semitism’ occasionally manifestations of white privilege?
Human rights activists and academics such as myself are increasingly being accused of anti-Semitism when we speak in support of the Palestinian struggle and the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Last year, organisers of my BDS speaking tour at French universities came under immense pressure...