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June 28, 2006 EI - 'Escalation', 'retaliation' and BBC double standards in Gaza (CPNO Commentary: This article pretty well sums up coverage by the Canadian media as well). The killing by Palestinian militants of two Israeli soldiers and the capture of a third from an army post close to the Gaza Strip set the scene for Israeli “reprisals” and “retaliation”, according to the reports of BBC correspondents in Israel and Gaza at the weekend. We can ignore the weeks of shelling by the Israeli army of Gaza...the blockade of Gaza's “borders” by the Israeli army for months on end....Israel's bullying of the international community to connive in the starving of the Hamas-led government of funds....
CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST BOYCOTT NEWS June 26, 2006 JVP - Media distortion regarding the Presbyterian G.A. vote on divestment from Israel We here at Jewish Voice for Peace headquarters have been absolutely stunned by the Orwellian headlines and poor reporting about this week's Presbyterian General Assembly vote to use economic pressure to end the occupation. Counterpunch - Understanding the Presbyterian Vote America's largest Presbyterian church voted to continue policies of economic engagement in the Middle East. It affirmed its willingness to use its investment policies to press for peace in Israel-Palestine. The vote came two years after it's overwhelmingly support of a phased, selective divestment from Israel. June 23, 2006
Ha'aretz - Pink Floyd's Roger Waters urges Israel to 'tear down the wall' Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, who inspired the rock band's iconic album "The Wall," scrawled "tear down the wall" on the concrete panels of Israel's West Bank barrier on Wednesday. Steelworkers back CUPE OntarioAt a recent Toronto Steelworks Area Council meeting a resolution of support for CUPE Ontario was passed unanimously. It reads in part: "The Toronto (Steelworkers)Area Council is concerned about the campaign being waged against CUPE Ontario for having passed "Resolution 50" at its recent Convention. June 18, 2006 Samah Sabawi - Sea and Sky: A dedication to Houda My father's life in exile was spent between cities, countries and continents trying to find that perfect beach that looked like Gaza's beach. You'd be surprised, even the Great Barrier Reef in Australia could not measure. My father's thirst for Gaza's sea was never quenched. Sam Bahour - Spinnining out of Control Israel's Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced today that Israel is preparing a global “propaganda offensive” to counter the recent barrage of news reports and writings that condemned Israel for the recent killing of 10 civilians, including 5 children, on a Gaza beach. In political and media lingo this is called spin, to twist and turn an event so as to give an intended interpretation, and Israel excels at it.
June 14, 2006 Human Rights Watch - Israel: Investigate Gaza Beach KillingsArtillery Strike Probably Killed Palestinian Family(Gaza City, June 13, 2006) – Israel should immediately launch an independent, impartial investigation of a June 9 Israeli artillery strike on a beach north of Gaza City, Human Rights Watch said today. Seven Palestinian civilians picnicking on the beach were killed that day and dozens of others were wounded. CIC/CAF CALL FOR CANADA TO CONDEMN ISRAELI GAZA BEACH KILLINGS Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians on CUPE Resolution to Boycott Israel The Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians welcomes the resolution passed May 27 by the Ontario branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) * as a sincere attempt to bring peaceful means to bear on the increasingly intolerable and explosive situation between Israel and the Palestinians. June 13, 2006 G&M - The horror of young Huda Ghalia A family picnic on a Gaza Strip beach turned to chaos when a shell blast killed a Palestinian girl's parents and five siblings.... The head of Israel's southern command, Major-General Yoav Galant, said an investigation into the explosion had raised the possibility that the blast was caused by a Palestinian militant group, and not Israeli shelling..... Israel's daily Haaretz newspaper acknowledged that it was "very unlikely that a Qassam could have caused the kind of damage wreaked on the Gaza beach." June 11, 2006 Haaretz - Ghalia family lost six members in shelling, in 2005 they lost four The hardest hit in the Israel Defense Forces artillery strike on a Gaza beach Friday was the Ghalia family, which lost six members, among them the father, one of his two wives, an infant boy and an 18-month-old girl.
7 killed by shell at Gaza beach picnic - Abbas condemns `bloody massacre' That single shell instead struck a crowded beach between Sudaniya and Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, killing seven Palestinians. A total of four Israelis have been killed by the estimated 4,000 haphazard Qassam rockets launched by Palestinians from Gaza during the past five years.
The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century, but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure — in particular the divestment movement of the 1980s. Over the past six months, a similar movement has taken shape, this time aiming at an end to the Israeli occupation. TorStar - CUPE has history of defending human rights Ontario union democratically voted to engage in a peaceful form of protest against Israel, says Sid Ryan Despite an International Court of Justice declaration that the wall is illegal, despite UN resolutions, despite opposition among many of its own citizens and calls to withdraw coming from countries, organizations — yes, even unions — around the world, Israel persists in policies that punish all Palestinians. So, frustrated like so many millions who support a negotiated and just peace in the Middle East, CUPE members exercised their right to introduce policy resolutions to their Ontario division convention. June 7, 2006 I congratulate CUPE Ontario for their historic resolution on May 27th in support of the Palestinian people - those living under occupation and those millions of Palestinian refugees living in the Diaspora. We fully support your resolution. CUPE defends its position - letters from CUPE president Syd Ryan Letter to Toronto Star - This editorial from the Montreal Gazette asks why CUPE doesn't canvass all its 200,000 members in Ontario regarding the resolution on boycotting Israeli goods that passed at our recent convention. That is like calling for a referendum on every question before Parliament or the provincial Legislature. Letter to Globe and Mail - The resolution submitted by several CUPE Ontario locals was designed to draw attention to the lives of ordinary, innocent civilians living in horrific conditions in Palestine. At the same time, our union continues to support a peace process based on equality between Israelis and Palestinians and based on the implementation of United Nations resolutions and international law. June 5, 2006 CUPE BC is governed on the question of Israel/Palestine by two resolutions passed at its own annual conventions. The first, passed in 2001, called for “the total ending of the Israeli occupation and illegal settlement of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem (UN Resolution 224 and 338), the immediate cessation of the Israeli armed attacks on a civilian people and the ending of the siege on villages, towns and cities (4th Geneva Convention), and the development of a peace process based on equality between Israelis and Palestinians and on the implementation of UN resolutions.” Ryerson Review of Journalism - Under Pressure Dov Smith leafs through a stack of newspapers. He stops and leans back in his black leather chair to read the articles that mention Israel or the Middle East. He clips a relevant story and stores it in a folder on his desk. Turning to his computer, the executive director of the pro-Israel media watchdog HonestReporting Canada reads his email. One is from another HRC member pointing to a backgrounder on the Middle East conflict on CBC's website. Smith clicks on the link and reads the introductory sentence: "Since May of 1948, when the modern state of Israel was proclaimed, the land has had two parallel histories, one for the Jews who control the state and one for the Palestinians whose homeland the nation was built on." June 4, 2006 (CPNO comment: This is long but well worth reading and saving as it thoroughly debunks the myths espoused by the pro-Israel lobby.) B'nai Brith: We support the State of Israel, a sister democracy to Canada, the only country in theMiddle East founded on the rule of law. B'nai Brith: We applaud Israel as a vibrant society that respects the civil, religious and cultural rights of all its citizens. B'nai Brith: We oppose the CUPE-Ontario boycott of Israel, as inherently biased and discriminatory, betraying a politically-charged agenda. B'nai Brith: We understand full well that such boycotts, from wherever they emanate, do nothing to advance true peace in the Middle East, but rather create a roadblock to meaningful resolution of the conflict, and; B'nai Brith: We expose such boycotts as thinly veiled attempts to delegitimize the existence of the State of Israel and its right to protect its citizens against terror and violence. June 3, 2006 Toronto Sun - Protesting against Israeli Apartheid(by Sid Ryan, president of CUPE Ontario) It was this wall that spurred CUPE Ontario delegates to adopt a policy in support of an international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions. Like members of many church congregations, a large number of organizations in Quebec and the 67,000-member union of university lecturers in the United Kingdom, they are frustrated by Israel's lack of response to what has been tried through reason and law with United Nations resolutions and the International Court of Justice. Jerusalem Post - "World Council of Churches slams Israel" Stop the Wall - London Protesters Rally for Free Palestine June 2, 2006 Winnipeg Free Press - Aspers sponsor hate film, say critics "If the Asper Foundation is bringing in the film that is clearly propaganda and clearly fear-mongering and this is the organization that is a leader in the human rights museum, that is not only baffling, it's astounding. Where is their credibility? Their legitimacy?" YNet - Israeli Professor: UK boycott justified In a special interview with Yedioth Ahronoth, Professor Rachel Giora of Tel Aviv University gives her reasons for supporting the British boycott on Israeli academic institutions.
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