Sonja Karkar, Electronic Intifada 9 July 2010

Photo Palestine solidarity vigil.

It is five years since Palestinian civil society first made the call for a global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against the apartheid state of Israel. At the time, introducing such action in Australia seemed impossible when the public barely knew anything about the Palestinian struggle for justice and freedom. Education had to be a priority if there was to be any overturning of the long-accepted and indulged Zionist narrative.

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Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem, guardian.co.uk Thursday 1 July 2010

Photo Dome of the Rock at Al Aqsa mosque compound under open sky in Palestine.

A 29-year-old lawyer from Gaza has launched a legal challenge against Israel’s refusal to allow her to travel to the West Bank to study human rights and democracy.

Fatima Sharif must register for her masters degree at Birzeit University near Ramallah in two weeks’ time or she will lose her place.

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calling all volunteers! Tadamon Open Meeting!

Monday, June 21 6:30pm
First floor
The School of Community and Public Affairs
2149 MacKay
Between Maisonneuve and Sherbrooke
Metro Guy-Concordia, bus 165 or 24

All those interested in getting involved in the movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid and for Palestinian human rights are welcome to attend an open meeting of Tadamon!

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Photos from ActiveStills documenting Israeli protests against Gaza flotilla massacre.

Photo: ActiveStills Israeli activists protest beneath the nighttime skyline in Tel Aviv.

Photos documenting Israeli activists protesting the Israeli military massacre on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in Tel Aviv. In response to the nighttime commando raid on the humanitarian ships bringing aid to the besieged Gaza Strip grassroots activists inside Israel have held multiple street protests to protest the war crimes committed by the Israeli military in the Mediterranean.

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Friday, 7 May 2010 Independent by Ben Lynfield

Photo: ISM Rachel Corrie standing in front of Israeli bulldozer March 2003, Gaza

Seven years after the American activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, evidence has emerged which appears to implicate Israel’s Gaza commander at the time, in an attempt to obstruct the official investigation into her death.

The alleged intervention of Major-General Doron Almog, then head of Israel’s southern command, is documented in testimony taken by Israeli military police a day after Ms Corrie was killed on March 16, 2003. The hand written affidavit, seen by The Independent, was submitted as evidence during a civil law suit being pursued by the Corrie family against the state of Israel.

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Commemoration of the 62nd Anniversary of the Nakba in Montreal

Sunday May 16, 2010, 12h-16h
Lafontaine Park
avenues Lafontaine and Rachel east
vicinity of north-west corner of the park
metro Mont-Royal or Sherbrooke

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Canadian Union of Postal Workers letter to Canada Post, April 2010

Photo: Palestinian children mourn the dead in Gaza, January 2009.

Moya Greene
President and Chief Executive Officer
Canada Post Corporation
2701 Riverside Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0B1

I am writing to you on the eve of Canada Post issuing a joint stamp with Israel.

A recent article in Canada Stamp Detail said “Canada Post will issue the stamp “to celebrate Canada’s strong bilateral relationship with Israel – a friendship that spans six decades and is marked by shared values, common interests and strong political, economic, cultural and social ties.”

While CUPW is glad to see Canada Post taking on new and innovative ways to sell stamps, we are somewhat concerned that Canada Post is launching a stamp with Israel on the basis of “shared values”.

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rabble.ca Stefan Christoff, April 2010

Photo: Matthew Cassel Due to the siege, routine injuries have been difficult to treat.

Thousands across Gaza live with severe injuries: youth war amputees, mothers severely burned by phosphorus bombs, countless Palestinians coping with physiological wounds, all injuries stemming from the disaster wrought on Gaza by the Israeli military assault in the winter of 2008/2009.

And war injuries remain a consistent reality in 2010.

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Neither Here nor There directed by Hicham Kayed 2006 Lebanon/Germany

Photo: Zoriah Palestinian refugee girl stands on the streets of Beach Camp in Gaza.

April 16 2010, 6pm
4755 Van Horne # 110
Metro Plamondon
Admission $5 – $20
documentaries in Arabic with English subtitles
films will be followed by a discussion

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Artists Against Israeli Apartheid: Montreal, February 25th 2010

photo: shinning sky over the Israeli apartheid wall in Palestine.

A call from Montreal artists to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israeli apartheid…

Today, a broad spectrum of Montreal artists are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and supporting the growing international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli state. Last winter, the Israeli state launched a violent military assault on the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip, leaving over 1400 Palestinians dead, including over 300 children. Despite the official end of military operations, the blockade continues to this day, with devastating consequences for Gaza’s residents.

Over 60 years from the beginning of the ongoing Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) in 1948, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from historic Palestine through Israel’s creation, Montreal artists are united in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice.

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