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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end Israeli siege of Gaza! demonstration for victims of Gaza flotilla massacre

Saturday June 5th 13h30
corner Peel & St. Catherine
Dorchester Square
metro Peel
Montreal, Quebec

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Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada 25 May 2010

Photo: Israel denies Palestinians in “unrecognized villages” basic services like water and electricity. (Yotam Ronen/ActiveStills)

Al-Masadiya, al-Garin, Khirbat al-Watan, Bir al-Hamam, Khashem Zana, Sawin, al-Shahabi, Wadi al-Naam and al-Mashash are all Palestinian Bedouin villages facing destruction by bulldozers and cement mixers as Israel’s transportation ministry plans to lengthen its Trans-Israel Highway southward into the Naqab (Negev) desert. This means that more than 3,000 Palestinian Bedouins could be displaced if an injunction filed by Israeli civil rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) doesn’t succeed in the high court.

Spokespeople for Bimkom (Planners for Planning Rights), the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the Regional Council for Unrecognized Villages in the Negev, some of the groups filing the injunction, say that the Israeli government approved the highway construction without consideration for indigenous populations in the Naqab.

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May 2010 Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee.

Photo Yian Huang Israeli solider arrests Palestinian youth on Palestinian lands.

Occupied Palestine, May 26 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), strongly condemns the actions taken by Canadian state bodies, university administrations and pressure groups to defund, repress and otherwise attempt to weaken groups and individuals that provide assistance to, or campaign in solidarity with, Palestinians. Such blatantly anti-democratic measures are not only repulsive per se; they are forms of complicity with Israeli violations of international law and Palestinian rights and have far reaching adverse consequences for civil liberties. The BNC believes that this repression in Canada must be brought to an end.

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24.05.10 Haaretz by Barak Ravid

Photo: Israeli military siege on the Gaza Strip.

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Monday that Canberra has asked Israel to withdraw a diplomat after an investigation found “no doubt” of its role in forging four Australian passports implicated in the slaying of a Hamas operative in Dubai earlier this year.

Copies of passport photos allegedly linked to the Dubai hit of a Hamas strongman.

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Conseil central du Montréal métropolitain of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux

Photo: Active Stills Palestinians protest against Israel’s apartheid wall in Bil’in.

Montreal Middle East solidarity collective Tadamon would like to extend its warm congratulations to the delegates of most recent convention of the Conseil central du Montréal métropolitain of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CCMM-CSN), which took place from May 17 to 21, 2010. At the convention, the 297 delegates voted, nearly unanimously, in favour of a historic resolution in support of the global campaign of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid.

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oppose Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit May 31st Tadamon! statement

Photo: Palestinian students in Gaza sit beside names of fellow students killed during the Israeli bombardment during Operation Cast Lead in winter 08/09.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to visit Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa on May 31st. The visit will be another step towards strengthening Canada’s support for Israeli apartheid, war crimes, and Israel’s long history of contempt for international law. Middle East solidarity collective Tadamon therefore calls upon all supporters of human rights and social justice to join us in protesting at 5pm May 31st in front of the Human Rights Monument in Ottawa against Benjamin Netanyahu’s presence in Canada.

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Protest Israeli war criminal and Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu

Monday May 31st
get on bus to Ottawa from Montreal!
meet at 1pm
in front of the Hall Building
@ Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve West
(metro Guy-Concordia)
bus return to Montreal @ 10:30pm

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May 23, 2010 statement from Queers Against Israeli Apartheid

Photo: Israeli apartheid wall cutting through Palestinian territories.

For the first time in its 30-year history, Pride Toronto has banned an LGBT community group from the parade. The board of directors voted on Friday to ban the words ‘Israeli Apartheid’ from any Pride events, including the Pride parade, dyke march, and trans march – directly targeting the group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.

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guardian.co.uk by Chris McGreal Sunday 23 May 2010

Photo Documents on nuclear warheads between apartheid South Africa and Israel

Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons.

The “top secret” minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa‘s defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel’s defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them “in three sizes”. The two men also signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that “the very existence of this agreement” was to remain secret.

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