Avril 2010 Le Courrier Emmanuel Dror

Photo: Claudia Espinosa. Musicienne Rebecca Foon à Artistes Anti Apartheid.

En octobre 2009, une soixantaine d’artistes européens, principalement des Français mais aussi l’Anglais Gilad Atzmon ou le Suisse Michel Bühler, réclamaient la levée du blocus de Gaza. Fin février 2010, ce sont 500 artistes de la seule ville de Montréal au Québec qui ont signé un appel pour appuyer la «campagne internationale de boycott, désinvestissement et sanctions» menée au Canada par la Coalition contre l’Apartheid israélien (basée à Toronto).

Pour mesurer cet élan, nous avons contacté l’un des initiateurs québécois de cet appel, Stefan Christoff, pianiste, photographe et militant associatif à Montréal. Stefan Christoff explique que, dans cette ville, «les communautés artistiques et militantes ont toujours été proches l’une de l’autre. De nombreux artistes sont issus des quartiers pauvres de Montréal, où de jeunes étudiants cohabitent avec les classes défavorisées, ouvrières ou immigrées. Dans ces quartiers, les lieux de rencontre sont des lieux de débats, mais aussi des lieux de création artistique où se tissent des liens qui durent».

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Boycott National Committee (BNC) – Palestine, March 2010

Photo: Palestinian boy walking in Gaza Strip.

A Vote for Israel’s Accession to the OECD is a Vote in Support of Israel’s War Crimes and Other Grave Violations of International Law and Human Rights

Palestinian civil society urges the peoples and governments of OECD member states to defer Israel’s OECD accession until it respects international law and the human rights of the Palestinian people and shows commitment to the fundamental values shared by OECD members.

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Ewa Jasiewicz, Electronic Intifada, February 2010

Photo: Israeli missile strike on Beirut, Lebanon.

The Polish army’s announcement that it will buy seven Aerostar Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from Israel’s Aeronautics earlier this month was heralded as a step forward for Poland’s “stabilization” mission in Afghanistan. The UAV, or drone, has long been a key tool in the military arsenals of both the United States and Israel. The US leads the export market, followed by Israel, which as of last year was the planet’s third-biggest arms exporter, arming regimes around the world to the tune of $6.75 billion in 2009.

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Artists speak out on Israeli Apartheid: in their own words

Photo: Iraqi hip-hop artist Yassin Alsalman, Narcicyst.

Hundreds of Montreal artists have united in solidarity with Palestine, launching a public declaration this February signed by 500 artists from the city. Artists in Montreal from diverse disciplines, from dancers to poets, musicians to filmmakers, have issued the first major statement by artists in a major North American city backing the global boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign in opposition to policies of apartheid practiced by the Israeli state against the Palestinian people.

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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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Haaretz by Amira Hass. 15/02/2010

Photo Palestinian child next to fruit stall in the streets of Jerusalem.

Something about 12-year-old Bassam caused two Israelis to smile. Two Palestinians noticed, but did not remember their smiles as being disparaging or arrogant. On the contrary. The Palestinians regarded the smiles as a rare moment in which two Israelis – and not just any Israelis, but military judges – realized how ridiculous the situation was.

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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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Press release-Global Day of Action to boycott Israeli apartheid

Montrealers join Global Day of Action to Boycott Israeli Apartheid

Who: Members of Montreal Palestine solidarity groups and community organisations
What: Global Day of Action for the campaign to boycott Israeli apartheid
When: Tuesday, March 30, 4pm-6pm
Where: Phillips Square, across from The Bay, 585 Ste. Catherine St. West

MONTREAL, March 30 – As the world watches Israel ramp up its construction of illegal Jewish-only settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank with apparent impunity, Montrealers are taking to the streets as part of the Global BDS Day of Action against Israeli apartheid. The protest in Montreal takes place alongside similar actions in Egypt, England, France, Ireland, Japan, Scotland, the US and many other countries and is part of the growing international campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, or BDS, against Israeli apartheid.

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6th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week summary

On behalf of the organizing committee of Israeli Apartheid Week, we would like to thank everyone who attended or supported IAW 2010. This year’s week, the 6th annual edition, was a huge success!



Panelists and presenters at IAW touched on many important themes throughout the week, such as recent successes in the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, the myth of democracy for Palestinians living inside Israel, the situation in the Occupied Territories, queer support for Palestine, aboriginal support for the Palestinian struggle, and Canada’s links to Israeli aparthied. Attendees also learned about the apartheid nature of Israeli policies, and their similarities to South African apartheid, straight from activists who fought directly against South African apartheid.



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rabble.ca by Judy Rebick | March 2, 2010

Photo by Andrea Giudiceandrea. Bullet ridden wall in the Gaza Strip.

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.

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