June 29, 2005

Mr. Television Documents the Occupation
By Ira Glunts - PalestineChronicle.com
Like a voice crying from beneath a collapsed building, every now and then a well-known and respected Israeli startles us with a sharp plea: the country must cease its immoral, illegal and self-destructive occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people.

Beliefnet: Anglicans Endorse Divestment Against Israel
Anglican churches around the world, including the Episcopal Church in the United States, were urged Friday (June 24) to join a growing church-based movement to divest from Israeli companies that support the Palestinian occupation.

Bank of Montreal: "Why We Must Speak Out" Remarks by Tony Comper, President and CEO, BMO Financial Group, at The Empire Club of Canada
I am here today because, in 2004, in what we are proud and prone to describe as "the most cosmopolitan nation on Earth," reported incidents of antisemitism rose - or descended - to an all-time record of 857 for the year. And because it is time for Canadians of good will to stand up and cry: Enough! ... Let me also be clear that if I ever got word of people like this poisoning the atmosphere in my organization, I would not be restrained in my reaction - just as I would not be restrained in my reaction to any other expressions of bigotry and hatred.

This is a scathing article on the so-called peace negotiations.
Yahoo News: Abbas seeks international help after Sharon brush-off The Israeli press concluded that the former general had undermined the moderate Abbas. "He pounded on the table, reprimanded, explained matters to Abu Mazen like a division commander talking to a young company commander at the conclusion of a failed battalion exercise," said the Maariv daily.

June 21, 2005

Montreal Planet Magazine: Letter challenging Montreal MP Marlene Jennings' support for Israel.
Until very recently, a glossy and idealized perception of Israel's history held public sway in North America, but that is changing fast, along with Israel's benevolent image. In the United States, the FBI is investigating the passing of a secret Pentagon document on Iraq to Israel via AIPAC, the ubiquitous, supposedly "independent" lobby group for Israel. This should prompt Canadians to take a close look at the nature, function and levels of official involvement (acknowledged or unacknowledged) in pro-Israel friendship-and-support groups.

ISSA FAHEL, A MAN TO REMEMBER by Gary D. Keenan
Born in 1922, in Jaffa, Palestine, the late Issa Elias Fahel was one of Canada's most well known, dedicated, and effective champions of the Palestinian/Arab cause.

Occupation Magazine: An Open Letter to the Palestinian and International Community
........, medical and health service providers and members of professional unions and research and training institutions working in the health sector in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, would like to register our protest and deep concern over the increasing pressure exerted upon us to enter into Palestinian-Israeli cooperation schemes in the sphere of health.

June 13, 2005

University of Massachusetts: Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem, Israeli Style
Israeli authorities are carrying out a process in East Jerusalem that accurately be described as ethnic cleansing. It is plainly geared to uproot Palestinians from an area that historically has been known as Arab East Jerusalem and convert it into an integral, permanent part of the capital of the Jewish state.

June 12, 2005

Saba: When MP's become Propaganda Agents

Press Release: PEN Canada
PEN Canada calls on the council of Montreal suburb Côte-St-Luc to reverse its short-sighted attempt to restrict freedom of expression and allow the complete exhibit of photos by Canadian Zahra Kazemi to be displayed in the community's library.

June 11, 2005

RWB: Open letter to Montreal authorities about censorship of Zahra Kazemi photo exhibit
Reporters Without Borders, an international organisation that defends press freedom, condemns the cancellation on 6 June of a posthumous exhibition of photographs by Zahra Kazemi in the Côte-Saint-Luc municipal library.

CBC: Jewish group wants Kazemi exhibit restored
The Jewish Alliance wants the Borough of Côte St. Luc-Hampstead-Montreal-West to restore Kazemi's photo exhibit. It is also demanding an apology for the photojournalist's family.

June 10, 2005

Torstar: Idealist's grail: Network TV beholden only to the public - Paul Jay intends to "change the economics of journalism."
On a crackling mobile phone line from a rented car, his patter interrupted by the voice of a GPS system as he navigates the streets of San Francisco, the Toronto producer is a man on a very big mission.

In pdf format:
Letter from MP Marlene Jennings published in the Montreal Planet Magazine.
The letterJennings is responding to is in html format at:
http://www.canpalnet-ottawa.org/letter_jennings.html

CBC: Library Removes Kazemi Photos after Complaint
An exhibition of work by slain Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi has been shut down, following complaints it was too sympathetic to the Palestinian uprising.
See also: In Cote Saint-Luc, They Don’t Want to Know

June 8, 2005

MMN:  As the Globe Spins: Middle East correspondent worse than none
"Reporters who report the news without fear or favour suffer harassment or risk expulsion; those who make the Faustian bargain end up covering up for a war criminal state."

June 6, 2005

Toronto Star - Wrath of the Hebron settlers
The members of the Abu Aishe family cling doggedly to their home in Tel Rumeida, which they say is an almost continuous target for the settlers across the street.

June 5, 2005

Haaretz: Shards of memory
This is the most Arab-free area in Israel. It was the scene of total ethnic cleansing, which left not a vestige apart from the heaps of ruins and the sabra bushes. On the coastal plain, between Jaffa and Gaza, not one Palestinian village remains intact.

June 4, 2005

Letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty about the Visit to Israel by Ontario Police Chiefs

Counterpunch: Thinking Outside the Box on Israel / Palestine
PA leaders who put the welfare of their people before personal interest must
start with The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

June 3, 2005

Now Toronto: Walk on the weird side - Ice cream checkpoints add strange twist to pro-Israel flag-waving
Amnesty International may have released a report last week heaping scorn on the Israeli military for crimes against humanity, but you would certainly never know it at Sunday's (May 29) annual Walk with Israel.

Letter to Paul Martin by Ron Saba, editor of Montreal Planet magazine
The immoral position of your government in supporting Israeli Apartheid is based on the premise that Canadians can be kept misinformed forever. Although your key financial backer Mr. Gerry Schwartz and  the people at the Asper controlled media empire may reassure you of this, you are making an immoral and foolish bet.

June 2, 2005

Toronto Life Magazine: The Heather and Gerry Show

For those trying to decode their agenda, the first signs had surfaced two years ago, after student protests provoked authorities at Montreal's Concordia University to cancel a speech by former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sparking outrage in the Jewish community. Shocked into action, Schwartz and Reisman summoned a group of fellow philanthropists, including Toronto tycoons Larry Tanenbaum and Brent Belzberg, to plot a counter-strategy

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