Palestine: a conversation with Charlotte Kates

Last month, the United Nations and several NGO's recognized the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war which resulted in the continuing expansión of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, with words of rebuke for Israel and its sponsor states. In turn, the US threatened reprisals against the UN. Nonetheless, social justice movements around the world alongside the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement are joining forces for the liberation of Palestine, or what Nelson Mandela called "the greatest moral issue of our time."

Lawyer and social activist with Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoners International Solidarity Network, Charlotte Kates speaks to me from Brussels.