Tous les posts pour septembre 2009

Toronto: Film festival courts controversy

13 septembre 2009 | Posté dans Boycott, Canada, Culture, Palestine
    Al Jazeera by Ahmed Habib, September 2009.

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    Photo: Satellites pointing to the sky in Toronto, Canada.

Moviegoers who were hoping for world class cinema at this week’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) may find themselves at the centre of a growing controversy steeped in international politics.

Considered to be one of the five most prestigious film festivals, the TIFF this year introduced the City to City programme, a new theme to its traditional programming grid, “that will explore the evolving urban experience while presenting the best documentary and fiction films from and about a selected city.”

Festival organisers say they have chosen Tel Aviv to be the focus of the inaugural edition of the programme.

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projection : Slingshot Hip Hop

11 septembre 2009 | Posté dans Culture, Palestine, Quebec

en prevision du concert du groupe DAM, il y aura projection du Slingshot Hip Hop.

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    JEUDI 17 SEPTEMBRE 2009
    20h00 – 22h00
    Off the Hook
    1021 St-Catherine west
    métro Peel
    Montreal, Quebec

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Les admirateurs montréalais de Leonard Cohen lui disent: Ne jouez pas en Israël

11 septembre 2009 | Posté dans Boycott, Canada, Palestine
    pour diffusion immédiate – 11 septembre 2009.

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Photo: Wissam Nassar, MaanImages. Messages palestiniens de solidarité écrits sur le drapeau national.

MONTRÉAL – Des membres de Tadamon!, un collectif montréalais de solidarité avec la Palestine, ainsi que des admirateurs du poète et chanteur montréalais Leonard Cohen vont se réunir samedi 12 septembre dans le quartier du Plateau pour demander au chanteur d’annuler son concert à Tel Aviv du 24 septembre 2009.

En donnant un concert en Israël, M. Cohen ne respecte pas l’appel fait en 2005 par 171 organismes palestiniens, qui demande à la communauté internationale de se joindre au mouvement pacifique pour le boycott, désinvestissement et sanctions (BDS) contre Israël, jusqu’à ce qu’Israël respecte le droit international et les droits humains des Palestiniens et Palestiniennes.

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Israeli Human Rights Violations in Occupied Palestine

11 septembre 2009 | Posté dans Palestine
    September 03 – 09, 2009, report Palestinian Center for Human Rights

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    Photo: Zoriah (c). Movements along the seafront in Gaza.

Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (03 – 09 September 2009)

During the reporting period, IOF killed a Palestinian child and wounded 6 Palestinian civilian, a resistance activist and an Israeli journalist.

On 04 September 2009, IOF shot dead a Palestinian child in Beit Hanoun town in the northern Gaza Strip, as he was walking with his family towards their farm in the border area.

On 03 September 2009, a Palestinian resistance activist was wounded in fighting during an Israeli military incursion into the east of Gaza City.

On 09 September 2009, a Palestinian civilian was wounded in Beit Hanoun town, when Israeli troops positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at him.

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Ne joue pas à Tel Aviv Leonard Cohen

10 septembre 2009 | Posté dans Boycott, Canada, Culture, Palestine, Quebec, Solidarité

protestez pour faire appel à Leonard Cohen pour décommander le concert à Tel Aviv

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    SAMEDI LE 12 SEPTEMBRE, 14h
    coin du blvd St. Laurent et Marie-Anne
    métro St. Laurent, autobus #55
    Montreal, Quebec

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An open letter to the Toronto International Film Festival

10 septembre 2009 | Posté dans Boycott, Canada, Palestine
    Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Toronto Declaration

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    Photo: Matthew Cassel. Palestinian flag in Gaza winter 2009.

As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival’s decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine.

In 2008, the Israeli government and Canadian partners Sidney Greenberg of Astral Media, David Asper of Canwest Global Communications and Joel Reitman of MIJO Corporation launched “Brand Israel,” a million dollar media and advertising campaign aimed at changing Canadian perceptions of Israel. Brand Israel would take the focus off Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and its aggressive wars, and refocus it on achievements in medicine, science and culture.

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We don’t feel like celebrating with Israel this year

8 septembre 2009 | Posté dans Boycott, Palestine, Solidarité
    Globe and Mail, Naomi Klein, Tuesday, September 08, 2009.

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    Photo: Zoriah (c). Palestinian building in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombs.

When I heard the Toronto International Film Festival was holding a celebratory “spotlight” on Tel Aviv I felt ashamed of my city. I thought immediately of Mona Al Shawa, a Palestinian women’s-rights activist I met on a recent trip to Gaza. “We had more hope during the attacks,” she told me, “at least then we believed things would change.”

Ms. Al Shawa explained that while Israeli bombs rained down last December and January, Gazans were glued to their TVs. What they saw, in addition to the carnage, was a world rising up in outrage: global protests, as many as a hundred thousand on the streets of London, a group of Jewish women in Toronto occupying the Israeli Consulate. “People called it war crimes,” Ms. Al Shawa recalled. “We felt we were not alone in the world.” If Gazans could just survive them, it seemed these horrors would be the catalyst for change.

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Durban II: Minority Death Match

8 septembre 2009 | Posté dans Boycott, Impérialisme, Palestine
    Harper’s Magazine, by Naomi Klein, September 2009.

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    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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Nil’in: Israeli forces shoot cameramen

8 septembre 2009 | Posté dans Palestine
    Report International Solidarity Movement, 4 September 2009:

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    Photo: Israeli military undermining press freedom in Palestine.

Israeli forces shoot Israeli and Palestinian demonstrator with live ammunition in the West Bank village of Ni’lin.

Palestinian residents, alongside Israeli and international supporters, have been demonstrating today since 12:30pm.

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Palestinian youth Hamdi al-Ta’mari jailed

3 septembre 2009 | Posté dans Palestine, Prisoniers
    Report, August 2009 Defense for Children International.

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    Photo: Palestinian child in the Gaza Strip.

On 14 August 2009, Hamdi al-Ta’mari (UA 1/09) was issued with his fourth administrative detention order by the Israeli military commander in the West Bank. This latest order was issued for a duration of four months. The order was reviewed by an Israeli military court on 20 August 2009, which confirmed the order.

On the same day, Hamdi turned 17.

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