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Archived Articles for June and July 2009
Himmelstein - Gaza sets the standard The International Committee of the Red Cross confirms that adequate food, medicine and construction material is not being allowed in. Monitoring of mainstream North American media confirms that the news of a five-alarm humanitarian crisis isn't getting out. July 16, 2009 MuzzleWatch - That commenter on your blog may actually be working for the Israeli government Straight out of Avigdor Lieberman’s Foreign Ministry: a new Internet Fighting Team! Israeli students and demobilized soldiers get paid to pretend they are just regular folks and leave pro-Israel comments on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other sites. July 12, 2009 CJC - CJC Applauds Formation of All-Party Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism The new president of Canadian Jewish Congress, Mark Freiman, welcomed yesterday's launch of the all-party Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism (CPCCA) under the leadership of Conservative MP Scott Reid and Liberal MP Mario Silva. [This is just another tool which will be used to stifle free speech. Why should anti-semitism have a special committee? Isn't all racism equally abhorent? What about racism agaisnt, Muslims, visible minorities, aboriginal people? It seems that both the Liberals and the Conservatives can count on a contribution for this joint effort.] Machsom Watch - Stop Escalation in the Campaign for the Expulsion of Palestinian Nomads in the Jordan Valley NOTE: The Jordan Valley is the part of the West Bank and is situated between Jordan and the remainder of the West Bank, NOT between the West Bank and Israel. [View MAP] Israel claims that the occupation is necessary for self defence but this is clearly land theft. Israeli settlers use terror tactics against the Palestinian inhabitants of the valley with impunity.
July 6, 2009 CJNews - Ex-Liberal candidate sues CJC, B’nai Brith Former federal Liberal candidate Lesley Hughes is suing Canadian Jewish Congress and B’nai Brith Canada, charging they ruined her political career by saying that she’s anti-Semitic.... As a result of the revelation, the former CBC radio broadcaster – she co-hosted the CBC Winnipeg morning show for a number of years – was forced to step down as the Liberal candidate for Kildonan-St. Paul and finished her run as an independent in the October election, finishing a distant third. Torstar - Stop meddling students tell Tories In this latest fracas, the York Federation of Students is accusing two Conservative politicians – federal MP Peter Kent and provincial MPP Peter Shurman – of interfering with York's turbulent student politics. Through a Freedom of Information request, the student federation obtained 50 pages of email exchanges in which assistants for the two politicians, who represent student-heavy ridings north of the campus, repeatedly question university executives about the results of a student council vote this spring. Information obtained under freedom of Information request by York Federation of Students. July 3, 2009 Rabble.ca - What did Foreign Minister Cannon discuss with his extremist Israeli counterpart? The announced press conference that Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon and Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman were to have on Monday June 22, 2009 at 12 pm was cancelled in the morning, without explanation. Instead, following his meeting with Lieberman, Cannon issued a [press] release.... Cannon stressed once again “Canada’s full support for Israel’s right to defend itself and to live in peace and security with its neighbours,” and with a view to further ensuring Israelis’ security, he also pledged to keep “helping the Palestinian Authority improve its security capacity.”Remarkably, there was no Canadian rebuke of Lieberman’s various heinous statements, such as: - Calling for Israel to use nuclear weapons against the Gaza Strip; June 23, 2009 Yahoo News-Lawsuit brings murky West Bank land deals to light After Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights in the 1967 war, the government began settling Jews in the captured territories. To avoid complications stemming from international law, it turned to the WZO, setting up a special settlement division not technically part of the government but entirely funded by it. The maneuver has served to cloud the issues and confuse the finger-pointing when uncomfortable questions arise. Such questions had already arisen in 2005, when a government-commissioned report accused the settlement division of complicity in diverting funds and confiscating West Bank land to put up some of the more than 100 "outposts" — small wildcat settlements — that settlers have built, some on privately held Palestinian land. June 19, 2009 Toronto Star - A world away, Palestinian seeks justice Villager in Toronto accuses Canadian firms of 'war crimes' over West Bank settlement First came the fence, which splintered the olive trees from Bil'in, the Palestinian village that tended them. ...."We want to show that there is no justice in Israel," said Khatib. June 18, 2009 Globe and Mail Editorial - Less than a peace process ....He (Netanyahu) also said that a Palestinian state could not have its own armed forces and could not control its own airspace: not a sovereign state, then, at all, but rather, Palestinian self-government or autonomy. He also demanded that Israel maintain its capital in an undivided Jerusalem. (This is a worth reading editorial as it is quite a departure from the usual support of Israel by the Globe and Mail. What the editorial fails to mention is that there has never been a peace process.) Haaretz - Full text of Netanyahu's foreign policy speech at Bar Ilan Globe and Mail - Full text of Obama's speech in Cairo, June 4, 2009 Rabble.ca - Much ado about Netanyahu - Analysis of Netanyahu's speech June 17, 2009 Independent Jewish Voices (Canada) Joins Campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against IsraelOttawa - Independent Jewish Voices (Canada) voted to join the growing international campaign in support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, at its first Annual General Meeting this past weekend. This decision makes IJV the first national Jewish organization in the world to do so. The adopted resolution states that IJV will "Support the Palestinian call for a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions until Israel meets its obligation to recognize the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and complies with the precepts of international law, including the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194."
June 12, 2009 JTA - Canadian minister: Reconsider forum on Mideast Canada's minister of science is under fire for asking a government agency to reconsider its financial support for a conference on the future of Israel and the Palestinians. The Canadian Association of University Teachers, which represents 65,000 academics, is calling for the resignation of Gary Goodyear, the minister of state for science and technology, because of his "unprecedented efforts to interfere" with the June 22-24 conference in Toronto. Details on York U, Israel Palestine Mapping models of statehood and Path to Peace Conference June 4, 2009 The Canadian Charger - Independent Jewish Voices Fights for Justice When asked about IJV, she explained that its origins can be traced back to 2006. Israel was engaged in military action in Gaza and Lebanon, and the United Church of Canada was considering a resolution calling for divestment of companies contributing to Israeli occupation. The Canadian Jewish Congress waged a campaign against the United Church, its leadership, and those proposing the motion, accusing them of anti-Semitism. In reaction, a group of Jews who agreed with the United Church sprang to its defence and supported the resolution, using an on-line petition and handing delegates a booklet that they produced. Delegates approved the motion, with minor changes.
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