Harper’s Magazine, by Naomi Klein, September 2009.

Photo: Zoriah (c). Crack in wall in south Beirut, Lebanon.

When I arrived at the grand offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the Palais Wilson, looking out at a drizzly Lake Geneva, Navanethem Pillay was hunched over the shoulder of her deputy, Kyung-wha Kang, dictating a press release. “I am shocked and deeply disappointed,” I heard her say, pointing at the screen while Kang typed. It was 3:00 p.m., and Pillay was having a very bad day.

“Done,” she finally declared, plopping down at her conference table. The press release was a response to some disappointing news. The previous night, the United States, under the leadership of its first African-American president, had announced that it would boycott the United Nations Durban Review Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, citing its alleged anti-Israel bias. The conference was to start the following day, April 20, 2009, with Pillay presiding. Known by critics as “Durban II,” this was the only United Nations gathering specifically focused on pushing governments to combat racism inside their borders, a task that had become increasingly urgent as financial crises continued to stoke ethnic tensions around the world.

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Mouvements radicaux allant du Weather Underground aux Prisons et à la Palestine.

SAMEDI 16 MAI 2009 à 19h00
avec: Laura Whitehorn et Susie Day
1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest
local LB-125, Cinéma de Sève
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec

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dans le cadre de série culturelle qui rassemble
les artistes montréalais contre l’apartheid israélien

DIMANCHE 7 DECEMBRE 2008
20h00. 5-10$
La Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec

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Aux associations étudiantes et mouvements sociaux du Québec.

L’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ): Déclaration.

Montréal, mai 2008: L’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ) a adopté lors de son Congrès des 26 et 27 avril dernier une résolution pour appuyer la campagne de boycott, sanctions et désinvestissement contre l’apartheid israélien. Cette prise de position est l’aboutissement du travail de consultation et d’information mené depuis octobre 2007 en collaboration avec le collectif Tadamon! L’ASSÉ invite l’ensemble des acteurs sociaux à soutenir cette campagne lancée par 170 organisations de la société civile palestinienne.

un mois d’actions contre l’apartheid Israélien en Mai.

Joignez-vous aux actions et aux événements qui se tiendront durant le mois
de mai 2008 pour marquer les soixante ans de luttes contre l’apartheid israélien.

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How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago
end up throwing filth at cowering Palestinians?

by Johann Hari, the Independent, Monday, April 28th.

When you hit your 60th birthday, most of you will guzzle down your hormone replacement therapy with a glass of champagne and wonder if you have become everything you dreamed of in your youth. In a few weeks, the state of Israel is going to have that hangover.

She will look in the mirror and think – I have a sore back, rickety knees and a gun at my waist, but I’m still standing. Yet somewhere, she will know she is suppressing an old secret she has to face. I would love to be able to crash the birthday party with words of reassurance. Israel has given us great novelists like Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua, great film-makers like Joseph Cedar, great scientific research into Alzheimer’s, and great dissident journalists like Amira Hass, Tom Segev and Gideon Levy to expose her own crimes.

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Haaretz. April 20th, 2008.

Photo: Egypt/’Israel’ border.

Egyptian police shot and wounded two Africans, from Mali and Kenya, who tried to slip over Egypt’s desert frontier into Israel on Sunday, security sources said.

Escalating police violence at the Egypt-Israel border has left 11 would-be infiltrators dead since the start of the year, while scores of others, mostly from Africa, have been detained. Police killed an Eritrean migrant at the border on Thursday.

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IPS. March, 12th. Analysis by Rebecca Murray

Photo: Opposition protests in Beirut.

Tyre, Lebanon — Soon after the U.S. destroyer USS Cole was deployed off Lebanon’s shore Feb. 28 to “preserve political stability”, a group of young men gathered around in the embattled agricultural town Qana in south Lebanon, and voiced their fears.

“Everyone feels there is a war coming,” said Salman Ismael, a 22-year-old university student. “Especially after the killing of (Hezbollah commander) Imad Mughniyeh and what is happening in Gaza. And now U.S. ships come to the waters of Lebanon. Israel wants to improve her army in the Middle East after its defeat in 2006, she wants the Arabs to be scared of her.”

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Al-Ahram, by Saleh Al-Naami.

Photo: Boy holds a Palestinian flag atop a destroyed building in Gaza.

Every once in a while Ibrahim Hawash, 42, calls his wife Noha from his nightshift job to make sure that she has followed the treatment course prescribed by their family doctor for the involuntary urination of their four children, who are in primary school. The doctor says that the four children lost their ability to control urination due to the fear they underwent when Israeli army jets bombed a home near theirs in the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip during the “Warm Winter” military campaign three weeks ago. The four children still remember the terrifying night when they woke frightened up to the sound of a thundering explosion in the area and found that the glass of their home’s windows had fallen onto their bed.

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Toronto Star, by Oakland Ross. March 17th, 2008.

Photo: Israeli military near the Gaza Strip.

JERUSALEM: A United Nations panel voted overwhelmingly this month to condemn Israel for a recent armed incursion in the Gaza Strip that claimed more than 120 lives, many of them civilian.

Thirty-three member countries of the 47-seat UN Human Rights Council endorsed the resolution, which accused Israel of war crimes in its ongoing battles against Palestinian militants in Gaza.

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