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April 20, 2008 This resolution is an extremely significant landmark for the Palestinian solidarity movement in Canada. It represents the first time in North American history that a national union has passed a BDS resolution. The resolution recognizes Israel as an apartheid state and expresses CUPW's support for boycott and divestment from Israel. It was passed almost unanimously after nearly one hour of discussion on the convention floor. CUPW represents more than 50,000 postal workers across Canada... It was another of those routine tragedies that are never publicized. At eight in the morning we at ICAHD (the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) received a call that the Border Police, Israeli police and Jerusalem Municipality bulldozers were massing below the Palestinian village of Anata, poised to begin another day of home demolitions....Tens of thousands of Palestinian families live with demolition orders on their homes, some 22,000 in East Jerusalem alone, where fully a third of Palestinian homes face demolition at any time.
April 17, 2008 EI - Israel moves to shut Hebron orphanages, schools The Guardian UK - Area C strikes fear into the heart of Palestinians as homes are destroyed Israelis defend rules that reject 94% of non-Jewish building applications In the end it came down to a single-page letter, written in Hebrew and
Arabic and hand-delivered by an Israeli army officer who knocked at
the front door. The letter spelt the imminent destruction of the
whitewashed three-storey home and small, tree-lined garden that Bassam
Suleiman spent so long saving for and then built with his family a
decade ago. Apriil 14, 2008 Torstar - Ignatieff apologizes for Israeli war crime comment (This is a must read article. After his elaborate apology, Ignatieff says that : "instead of using the term "war crime," he might better have noted Israel "may have failed to comply with the Geneva Convention of the laws of war." A spade, by any other name is still a spade. I wonder if he will be called upon to apologize for this part of his apology. ) Full text of Ignatieff's speech at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto. April 11, 2008 Windsor Star - Students solve Mideast crisisAn event meant to shed light on the “crisis in Palestine” was cancelled at the University of Windsor on Tuesday following complaints that it would incite anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli bigotry. (These Jewish students to think that shutting down free speech is a laughing matter.
The flippant title of this article and the concluding quote from the campus radio host ( “So we've decided we are going to solve the Middle East crisis,” said Goldstein to laughter. “And we feel confident that we can do it.”) indicate that they find this coup quite humourous. They won't find it so funny when Israel goes the way of its apartheid counterpart South Africa as it inevitably will. April 5, 2008 Haiven - Jewish dissent not covered by the Canadian media Maybe I'm just getting old, but in my day newspapers and more broadly "the media" covered international speakers -- especially radical or provocative speakers-- who toured Canada. .... However Ilan Pappe wasn't the only critic of Israel in the last week who was not covered by the press. There was the Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians' first national conference on the weekend. [See below]April 4, 2008 Shalom Toronto - Independent Jewish Canadians unite to create alternative to the CJC More than 100 Jews from 26 cities across Canada met March 28-30 to form an organization committed to promoting real peace and justice in the Middle East. Convened by the Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians (ACJC), the conference brought together Canadian Jews belonging to 18 different groups to offer an alternative to the uncritical support of Israeli policies by the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Canada-Israel Committee and B'nei Brith, as well as those of the Harper government. ( Journalist and author Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine ) delivered the keynote address for the conference. View Videos on Youtube) We have resolved to promote the expression of alternative Jewish voices, particularly with respect to the grave situation in the Middle East, which threatens the future of both Israelis and Palestinians as well as the stability of the whole region.
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