Archived
Articles for April 2005
April 30, 2005
CJC: Chief
raps 'Jewish' media; says too much focus on Ahenakew trial, aboriginal
problems ignored
A Manitoba First Nations chief claims Jewish-controlled media ignore
aboriginal struggles, and instead focus criticism on David Ahenakew
during his hate trial. In a letter faxed to a Winnipeg media outlet,
Terrance Nelson - the chief of Manitoba's Roseau River reserve - said
such focus will increase any aboriginal hatred towards Jews.
April 29, 2005
TheWhig:
Government calls off probe of Kingston Hebrew school
“This is not a school, so the Ministry of Education has no involvement,
Wilma Davis told The Whig-Standard yesterday. “We don’t have any
jurisdiction over programs like that.”
MedMon/Felton:
As the Globe Spins: Why bother with intelligent analysis when there's
brass to polish?
The U.S. is the largest shareholder in the [World] Bank and a servant
of Israel, yet the Globe editorial scoffs at those who say Wolfowitz
will bring the Bank into line with Washington’s policies."
April 28, 2005
RO/Sabawi:
Teaching Children to Hate
Exonerating Israel of any responsibility it has toward the thousands of
Palestinian children it has killed and maimed, the workshop teaches
Jewish students to see their Palestinian counterparts not as innocent
children, but as militant hateful savages.
Ecaar/Nov. 04:
An Economist at the Wall
The Wall, most of whose route is on the Palestinian side of the Green
Line, is causing enormous suffering and hardship to the Palestinian
communities either side of it.
April 27, 2005
PETITION: To:
Governments of United States and European Union, and the United Nations
It's
Israeli Racism, Not "Development" of the Galilee and Naqab (Negev)
Ittijah – the Union of Arab Community Based Associations, calls for a
complete and halt to any international financial support for Israel’s
“Plan for the Development of the Naqab (Negev) and the Galilee,” which
is intimately connected to Sharon’s “disengagement” plan.
TorStar: Museum
caught in backlash
Some disdainful media writers toss poison darts at Aspers' stunning
project in Winnipeg
With comments from Linda
Belanger
CIC:
Islamic Congress Calls on Ontario Education Minister to Investigate
Teaching at Kingston Hebrew School In a letter to Ontario
Education Minister Gerard Kennedy, the Canadian Islamic Congress is
calling for an investigation of teaching presented at the Kingston
Hebrew School that has led students to believe Palestinians want only
"to push the Israelis into the sea," and that "Jews have been trying to
protect themselves in the land for over 3,000 years."
April 26, 2005
TOI
Billboard: Israeli Raging Grannies
As part of this week’s Vanunu campaign, anti-nuclear demonstrators from
Israel and abroad held Thursday a protest at the Rotem Junction near
the Dimona Nuclear Pile. A conspicuous feature at this event was a
performance by a group of white-haired women, wearing kitchen aprons
and wide-brimmed hats decorated with plastic flowers. Known as "The
Raging Grannies", they have become an increasingly common feature at
demonstrations and gatherings of the peace movement.
April 24, 2005
IHT: Palestinian textbooks: Where is all that 'incitement'?
No country's textbooks have been subjected to as much close scrutiny as
the Palestinian. The findings? It turns out that the original
allegations were based on Egyptian or Jordanian textbooks and incorrect
translations.
April 23, 2005
PBS:
Hebron videos
What was it like for a Canadian television producer to investigate
charges that Israeli soldiers have targeted journalists?
FRONTLINE/World series editor Stephen Talbot spoke with "In the Line of
Fire" reporter Patricia Naylor about her experiences covering the
Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the hazards journalists encounter.
Counterpunch:
Sharon's 92 Percent
Solution - How the Misperceptions Roll On
Imagine my chagrin. While vacationing in beautiful Vancouver, I had my
sun-and-mountain reverie interrupted on Tuesday by a New
York Times article seeming to give the final word on Ariel
Sharon's plans -- blessed, of course, by George Bush -- for the
disposition of Israel's border with the West Bank and the Israeli
settlements inside that territory.
April 21, 2005
Jewishvoiceforpeace:
Proponents of Caterpillar shareholder resolution claim victory
Today's public protests against CAT in over 30 cities and CAT's 3% drop
in stock price today assure that the company will have to deal with
this issue sooner rather than later.
April 20, 2005
Ha'aretz: Weissglas to meet with PA officials to discuss
coordinating pullout
He [Abbas] also criticized the treatment he
had received from the Israeli government since taking over at the helm
of the Palestinian Authority. "There has not been a single minute
without criticism, without complaints or without incitement," he said.
"Just like the first government I headed, we cannot get a moment's rest
from these onslaughts. And just like it was during the period of that
first government, we are not being given a chance."
April 19, 2005
Sowers of Hope:Help
the Village of Nahhalin
MONTREAL: Friday, May
13th, 2005 Help the Village of Nahhalin -
Fund Raising Gala at Chateau Royal, Laval Gala Arrival 7:15
p.m., Dinner 8:00 p.m. More
Information and Tickets
The community
of Nahhalin - population 6000 - will be entirely surrounded by Israel's
Wall.
..Help the families of Nahhalin deal with the Wall, giving
them short-term income to feed themselves, find employment, and get
health care! Help them also long-term, giving farmers access to more
arable land, and helping the community to subsist and support itself.
MedMon/Felton:
As The Globe Spins: Editorial looks tough but lacks credibility
"The editorial does not call for any punishment to be levied against
Israel, and has nothing to say about redressing, much less
acknowledging, the infringed rights of Palestinians."
ZMag:
Israel/Palestine Democracy
...the question of Israel as the only liberal democracy in the Middle
East needs to be explored.
April 17, 2005
Is it Apartheid?Nov.
2004: Moshé
Machover argues that using the term apartheid to describe Israel can be
dangerously misleading ... Zionism never intended to create a
Palestinostan for the Palestinian Arabs. From the very start, it
planned to get rid of them, to create a purely Jewish “Land of Israel”.
April 14, 2005
Ha'aretz: UN
commission slams Israel on settlements and violence.
Britain, Canada, Germany and Italy were among those joining the United
States in voting against a text condemning Israel for use of force,
including executions, and "continued systematic violations" in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip occupied since 1967.
April 13, 2005
ACTION: Sign the
BootCAT Petition
The BootCAT campaign seeks to stop the
Caterpillar Corporation from selling bulldozers to Israel that are used
to illegally destroy Palestinian homes and agricultural land.
CommonDreams: A
Palestinian Prison-State?
Two generations of Palestinians have never known freedom, only military
occupation. They have been brutalized, traumatized, undereducated, and
left with few skills and little hope of employment. A full 60 percent
of the Palestinian population is under the age of 18.
HumanRightsNews:
Bush Should Lay Down the Law on Settlements
George Bush should tell Ariel Sharon that the United States is
unequivocally opposed to all Israeli settlement activity in the
occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, Human Rights Watch said as the
U.S. president and Israeli prime minister met.
Letter to Marlene Jennings from Ron Saba, Montreal Planet
As
a Canadian citizen and editor of the Montreal Planet Magazine, I am
shocked and saddened by your support for the apartheid policies of the
Israeli government.
April 12, 2005
CNW:
Concerned Canadian Groups Going to Court to Protect the Status of
Jerusalem
Canadians for Jerusalem, applied to intervene in a B'nai
B'rith-supported case before the Federal Court of Canada: Eliyahu
Veffer v. Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Veffer claims that his
Charter rights are being infringed because Canada does not recognize
Israeli sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem and does not allow any
country name to appear in passports of Jerusalem-born Canadians.
Johal: Israel's
Citizenship Law to be Renewed
"This
law will be guided by demographic considerations meant to ensure a
solid Jewish majority for years to come," said Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon during the meeting. "There is no need to hide behind
security
arguments. There is a need for the existence of a Jewish state."
ZMag:
Fragile Peace - The Misrepresentation Of The Israeli-palestinian
Conflict
In fact, every time Israeli military vehicles invade towns and cities
(which happens daily somewhere in the West Bank) and prevent people
from leaving their homes, fragile peace is threatened.
IMOPA/Saba:
Letter to MP Marlene Jennings, Chairman, Canada-Israel
Interparliamentary Friendship Group Madame Jennings, I am
confident you would agree that: 1) Canadians oppose apartheid, 2) a
retired Attorney General of Israel is an authority on the system of
laws enforced by his nation and 3) Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu are
qualified to identify apartheid wherever it exists.
April 11, 2005
TheLink/concordia:
Jennings looking at Israel through rose-coloured glasses
Jennings excuses Israeli crimes, saying that they are a justified
response to Palestinian crimes, while at the same time conveniently
ignoring the issue of Jewish-only "settlements" built on Palestinian
land.
TheLink/Concordia:
MP Marlene Jennings attempts to address image problems of Liberal
Parliamentarians for Israel: We approach the conflict from a
Canadian standpoint, one that stresses civility and is unequivocally
intolerant of terrorism ... At the general assembly, Israel is
condemned for undertaking security measures without reference to
terrorism that brings them about...
Ms. Jennings is responding to
this: Jennings
tied to Liberal Parliamentarians for Israel
April 10, 2005
Rafah Today: Children's corpses in the hospital again, major shelling and the threat
of death from the circling Apaches again—all the fear, all the
horror--it is happening again and the people of Rafah are hiding in
their houses.
Ahram.org:
Reconstructing Palestine
Ten years in the making, Salman Abu Sitta's Atlas of Palestine 1948 is
an heroic undertaking. It is, writes Amira Howeidy, nothing short of
the resurrection of a land.
The Gate of the Sun
- review of the film mentioned
in the above article
Already, before its Cairo premiere...Bab Al-Shams (The Gate of the
Sun), Yousry Nasrallah's magic realist retelling of the story of
Palestinians, has generated a hubbub in the cultural sphere. Amina
Elbendary talks to the director after reading the book and sneaking a
coveted preview, while Mohamed El-Assyouti, fresh from a press
screening, explores the theory behind this brand of history making
April 9, 2005
Kibush.co.il:
57th anniversary of the Deir Yassin Massacre
The Hagana radio station repeated the appalling details again and
again, and warned its listeners in Arabic: “Remember Deir Yassin.” In a
message spread by loudspeakers in Arab villages in the Jerusalem area,
it was said that “If you do not leave your homes, your fate will be
like that of Deir Yassin.”
April 8, 2005
Economist:
Life in the armpits of Palestine
Israel's new barrier route is no better than the previous one...Though
the barrier route, revised in February, now hugs more closely the “green line”... it also extends numerous arms deep into the occupied
lands, around the main Jewish settlement blocks.
IndUK:
Sharon defies international objections by allowing 3,500 new homes on
West Bank
"There is a need to carry out construction in E-1. This programme has
been in existence for 10 years. We should definitely move ahead with
it."
PLO Press Release
(PDF Format) Chief Palestinian Negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat Says It Is “High Time” for International Community to Act by Preventing Home
Demolitions and Settlement Expansion near Jerusalem
Minister Erekat asserted that “these demolitions are part of a broader
Israeli campaign to isolate Palestinian East Jerusalem from the rest of
the occupied West Bank, annexing Palestinian land, our holy places, and
decimating our economy.”
April 6, 2005
JCPA: Post-Holocaust and
Anti-Semitism - Jews against Israel - Feb.04
Anti-Semitic attacks on Israel by Israelis and Jews are frequently
indistinguishable from those by gentiles...Gentile assaults on Israel
and Jews often use statements from Israeli or Diaspora Jewish defamers
as a legitimization....Irwin Cotler, the Canadian Justice Minister
undertook a more detailed analysis of the multiple aspects of the new
anti-Semitism.
Letter of
March 9, 2004 to Irwin Cotler from Bahija Réghaï - to which no reply has ever been received.
April 5, 2005
B'Tselem:
One Big Prison: New Report Warns Against Continued Strangulation of
Gaza Strip after Disengagement
Israel has cut off the Gaza Strip from the rest of the world to such an
extent that it is easier for Palestinians in Israel or the West Bank to
visit relatives in prison than visit a relative in Gaza.
Ha'aretz:
Poll: Most Jewish Israelis favor emigration of Israeli Arabs
A majority of Jewish Israelis believe that the state should encourage
Israeli Arabs to emigrate, according to a survey conducted by the Dahaf
Institute on behalf of Madar, the Palestinian Center for Israel Studies.
CPNO Note: Imagine the howls of
outrage (and rightly so), if a Canadian poll showed that a majority of
that country wanted the Jews, or any other ethnicity, to emigrate.
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April 4, 2005
Aljazeerah:
Churches warn Israel over Jerusalem
The World Council of Churches has called on Israel to halt all measures
that would prevent Jerusalem becoming a city sharing sovereignty and
citizenship between the Jews and a future Palestine. WCC:
Open letter on the status of Jerusalem
April 3, 2005
MedMon/Felton:
As the Globe Spins: Associated Press more a news filter than a news
source Put most charitably, it would seem the Globe uses Kalman and
AP in general not as a news source but as a news filter to prevent
historical context from undermining the standard lie that Palestinians
are “terrorists” and Israelis are reasonable people trying to cut a
deal.
April 1, 2005
MedMon/Felton:
Pettigrew and Cotler test critical extremes
Expressing “disappointment” is standard Canadian diplomatic-speak for:
“The government does not approve of Israel’s latest act of criminality,
but won’t actually do anything about it because the Jewish Lobby calls
the shots and we all want to be re-elected.”
ZMag:
A Campaign to Challenge Israeli Apartheid
Palestinian Campaign Targeting Jewish National Fund (JNF) Charitable
Status in Canada Launched on Land Day
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