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Why this is the moment to stop apartheid in its tracks
It’s time to assert the call for sanctions against Israel’s illegal colonisation project, writes BEN JAMAL of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign

ON JULY 1 the Israeli government announced a temporary postponement of its plans to proceed with the annexation of swathes of Palestinian territory in the West Bank, needing more time to finesse the finer details with the Trump administration. 

The day before, the Sumarin family of Silwan in East Jerusalem gathered in an Israeli court in a last-ditch endeavour to prevent the decades-long attempt to evict them from their family home. 

They were unsuccessful. Now, they face forcible removal from the home they have lived in for decades. 

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