ISSUE NO: 002

Welcome to our first MLN newsletter of 2023. As we said late last year, we expected the new ultra-right Israeli regime to implement new measures of cruelty and oppression against Palestinians living under the regime’s military occupation. Already the new Netanyahu-led government has announced plans to fast-track the violation of international law and United Nations resolutions with policy to prioritise illegal settlement building on Palestinian land. Alongside this the new regime has:


The last bullet point has brought tens of thousands of Israelis onto the streets in protest. However the protests are not calling for Palestinian rights. The work of civil society organisations around the world, MLN included, must be intensified against this latest apartheid regime and its newest colonial leadership. MLN has agreed on the general outline of our Webinar events this year to cover various critical issues. The overall theme will be the "75th Commemorative Anniversary of the Nakba, and the Apartheid Israeli State". Nakba Day is on 15 May.


Using this theme, webinars through 2023 will focus on:

  • The geopolitics of soft power involving countries like China, Africa, Sri Lanka and various other nation states and their relations with Israel and Palestinians

  • Marking international apartheid week in March

  • Palestinian political prisoners (17th April is Palestinian Prisoners Day, so the webinar is proposed to be held in the week around this date)

  • Palestinian resistance (non-violent as well as armed) and Palestinian resilience

  • Land rights and farmer rights and how Israel is using the agricultural assistance to further Israeli agendas at the expense of local communities such as South Africa (Speaker from GRAIN will lead the discussion)


We look forward to you joining us through the year to strengthen international solidarity with Palestinians as they face the unbridled brutality of the latest Israeli regime. South Africa under apartheid in the 1980s – Israeli under apartheid in 2023.


Be on the right side of history with MLN in 2023.

APARTHEID ISRAEL: THE NEW REALITY