Des artistes montréalais lancent un appel pour appuyer la campagne internationale de Boycottage, Désinvestissement et Sanctions contre l’apartheid israélien.
Aujourd’hui, un vaste éventail d’artistes se mobilise pour appuyer la campagne internationale de plus en plus large, appelant au boycottage, au désinvestissement et à des sanctions contre l’État d’Israël : la campagne BDS. L’hiver dernier, Israël lança un assaut militaire violent contre le peuple palestinien de la bande de Gaza avec un bilan de 1400 morts dont 300 enfants. Malgré la fin officielle des opérations militaires, le blocus de Gaza persiste à ce jour.
Il y a plus de 60 ans commença la Nakba (catastrophe en arabe) des Palestiniens, forçant des centaines de milliers d’entre eux à s’exiler de la Palestine historique lors de la création d’Israël en 1948. Aujourd’hui, des artistes montréalais affirment leur solidarité avec le combat pour la justice et la liberté du peuple palestinien.
Joignez-vous au regroupement de quarante villes à travers le monde à l’occasion de la 6e semaine internationale contre l’apartheid israélien (SAI). Une semaine remplie de conférences, ateliers, projections de films et d’évènements culturels afin de vous familiariser avec les enjeux du conflit israélo-palestinien ainsi que pour donner de l’ampleur à l’élan grandissant de la campagne de boycott, désinvestissement et sanctions (BDS) contre l’apartheid israélien. Les évènements à Montréal auront lieu à l’UQÀM, Concordia, McGill et d’autres endroits à travers la ville. Vous trouverez le programme complet ci-dessous.
endossée par le comité national de la campagne Boycott, désinvestissement et sanctions en Palestine
Depuis que la société civile palestinienne a lancé en 2005 un appel au mouvement de Boycott, Désinvestissement et Sanctions (BDS) contre l’apartheid israélien, plusieurs démonstrations d’appui ont été vaillamment réalisé au Québec et au Canada.
Before Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) even began members of the Ontario Legislature and the Canadian Parliament are falling all over each other to denounce it. I can’t remember another time when elected legislators formally denounced a student activity like this. Perhaps during the 1950’s when McCarthyism was rampant but that was before my time.
Photo: Palestinian waving flag at demonstration against occupation in West Bank.
The Israeli parliamentary Law Committee has recently approved a law proposal the (“Nakba bill”) that, if passed by the Knesset, would impose economic sanctions on the organizers of Nakba commemorations. Every year in May, Palestinians and supporters of their right of return commemorate the Nakba of 1948, which marks the single most traumatic and far-reaching event in the long and ongoing process of forced displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people by the state of Israel. Nakba commemorations are important events in Israel, where some 335,000 Palestinians, citizens of Israel, continue to be denied their right to return to their homes, lands and communities, and are forced to live as internally displaced persons within their own country.
Photo Israeli military demolishes Palestinian Labbada house in Nablus, West Bank.
The sixth annual Israeli Apartheid Week is back again in Montreal, and will be featuring events on three campuses in the city from March 4 to 11.
Every year for the last six years, many cities (43 cities participated last year) around the world join together to coordinate this week, which focuses on the growing campaign of boycotts, divestments and sanctions against the state of Israel. And this year, like every year in the past, pro-Israel apologists respond with campaigns which range from outright offensive to bizarre and puzzling.
I signed the call for sanctions against the state of Israel because of Operation Cast Lead, the incursion and blockade of Gaza, which targeted hospitals, water wells and thousands of Palestinian homes, because of the F-14 and F-16 fighter jets and Apache attack helicopters used against a defenseless civilian population, because of the hundreds of children killed in those attacks, because of the on-going series of targeted assassinations which are extra-judicial killings, which are simply murder, because of the Israeli refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, because of the on-going blockade of the Gaza Strip which deprives 1.5 million people of food, fuel and basic medical supplies,
