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From a 2010 Arab report,<ref>"BDS in the USA, 2001-2010." Noura Erakat In: 255 (Summer 2010)</ref> he struggled with applying the "apartheid" label on Israel because conditions are not the same as [[South Africa]], such as Arabs in Israel actually do have voting rights.
From a 2010 Arab report,<ref>"BDS in the USA, 2001-2010." Noura Erakat In: 255 (Summer 2010)</ref> he struggled with applying the "apartheid" label on Israel because conditions are not the same as [[South Africa]], such as Arabs in Israel actually do have voting rights.
Shakir led boycott campaigns at Georgetown University and Stanford, and his 2010 event during "Israel Apartheid [sic] Week" was headlined "Apartheid [sic] Is Real.''<ref name=book-challenging/>
On February 26, 2015, Shakir tweeted: "'Gaza is not just a 'kind of' concentration camp, it's the hood on steroids.'
In April 2016 Shakir implied South African apartheid idea back to 1948.<ref name=canary-omarshakir>[https://canarymission.org/individual/Omar_Shakir Omar Shakir], Canary.<blockquote>
On [https://archive.is/OXH0h April 21, 2016], Shakir, then a legal fellow for CCR, spoke on "BDS: Context and Challenges" at the Jerusalem Fund & Palestine Center in Washington, D.C. During his remarks at the event, Shakir compared [16:18] Zionism to South African apartheid and said [00:17:28] "If you replace those terms with Zionists, it’s a very similar logic to what’s led to the creation of the State of Israel and the maintenance of the occupation."
Shakir quoted [00:18:20] from a 1976 South African publication called “Apartheid South Africa,”...
On February 26, 2015, Shakir tweeted: "'Gaza is not just a 'kind of' concentration camp, it's the hood on steroids' @CornelWest tells Stanford's @palumboliu."</blockquote></ref>
In that year, In 2016, HRW increased its BDS emphasis, and hired Omar Shakir, an experienced activist, as its "Israel/Palestine director." At HRW, Shakir led BDS campaigns.<ref name=book-challenging>Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: 20 Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns. N.p.: Taylor & Francis, 2023. [https://books.google.com/books?id=RGOoEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT97].<blockquote>
In 2016, HRW increased its BDS emphasis, and hired Omar Shakir, an experienced activist, as its "Israel/Palestine director." Shakir led boycott campaigns at Georgetown University and Stanford, and his 2010 event during “Israel Apartheid [sic] Week” was headlined “Apartheid [sic] Is Real.” At HRW, Shakir led campaigns targeting Israeli banks..._/blockquote></ref>
It has been noted:<ref>[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/11/omar-shakir-even-boycotted-muslims-who.html Omar Shakir even boycotted MUSLIMS who don't support BDS] EoZ, November 07, 2019.</ref>
It has been noted:<ref>[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/11/omar-shakir-even-boycotted-muslims-who.html Omar Shakir even boycotted MUSLIMS who don't support BDS] EoZ, November 07, 2019.</ref>