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October 31, 2007 rabble.ca - The book lounge joins boycott of Chapters/Indigo We at rabble have decided to join with Palestinian solidarity activists in their boycott of the Chapters/Indigo family of companies. As a result, we will no longer be publicizing events taking place at Chapters, Indigo, The World's Biggest Bookstore, Coles, Smithbooks, and The Book Company. CPNO - Palestine National Voice - Hamilton Declaration We the Palestinian Canadian community assembly at the Palestinian National Voice Preparatory Conference in Hamilton, Canada, issue this letter out of profound concern regarding the present state of the Palestinian national struggle and the November 2007 “peace” conference to be hosted by the United States in Annapolis, Maryland. While Palestinians still suffer from the di sa ster of the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian National Authority has now agreed to attend another round of flawed negotiations. This time it does so under the pressure of North American and European nations that have actively collaborated with Israel to divide the Palestinian people and inflict collective punishment and other war crimes against them. Even now Israel is being allowed to deny the Palestinians the basic necessities for a functioning society through a humiliating siege against the Palestinian people in response to the exercise of Palestinian democracy and the adherence to its results. October 28, 2007 CPNO - Jewish group condemns meeting by extremist Jewish Defence League The Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians condemns a public meeting by the Jewish Defence League planned for tonight and calls on the Shaarei Tefillah Synagogue to cancel the event which features a speech by far-right Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin who has advocated the revocation of Israeli citizenship from non-Jews and the large scale deportation of Palestinians resident in Israel. October 22, 2007 Stop the Wall - Palestinian Primary School in Fasayil to be demolished on the 29th of November! [Aid for the building of this school was provided by the Brighton (UK) Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group in partnership .] Reuters Alertnet - Gaza hospital to stop surgery as runs out of gas Khaled Radi, spokesman of the Hamas-run ministry of health in the Gaza Strip, said Israel had told the company that imports hospital supplies into Gaza it would not supply the gas, which is needed to conduct surgery. He said the hospital had barely two canisters of gas left and would have to halt surgery soon. October 18, 2007 UBC Staff defend boycott of Israeli Universities From 1988 to 1992, all schools and universities in the occupied territories were shut down by military order, and a whole genera¬tion of Palestinians was deprived of its right to education. Since 2000, a more subtle policy has been put in place. Travel restrictions make it impossible to attend a university unless you live within walking distance. Roadblocks, checkpoints, and curfews disrupt schedules, and make it impossible to plan the academic year and hold examinations. .October 14, 2007 Jewish Voices for Peace - Desmond Tutu Re-invited to speak at St. Thomas University We have just learned that the president of the University of St. Thomas acknowledged he made the wrong decision and invited Archbishop Tutu to campus! Your letters worked! Thanks to you, we generated over 2,700 letters of protest. Please support our work. At the same time, eighteen member's of the university's law faculty released a letter urging the university to reissue the invitation. Ramallah on line - Palestine's Rejection of the UN Partition Plan (181) It was normal for the Palestinians as much as for any people on this earth to reject the UN Partition, which allots the best part of their land to foreign intruders, but what is not normal is to punish them so severely for such a normal attitude by disinheriting them and turning them into tragic refugees.... The hard core fact is that Israel was born in sin, and it has robbed the indigenous Palestinians of their homes and properties and then claimed to the world in a very obvious chutzpah that it was the Palestinians fault. .October 12, 2007 Chapters Indigo Boycott continues... Thismagazine.ca - Tear Down That Wall! Two years ago, the chain's founder and CEO, Heather Reisman, and her husband, Gerry Schwartz, chairman and CEO of Onex Corporation, launched the Heseg Foundation for lone soldiers. About 6,000 lone soldiers-so-called because they have no family living in Israel-serve in the Israeli army. Heseg (Hebrew for “achievement”) awards 100 scholarships each year to those who, after completing service, want to remain and study in Israel. Reisman and Schwartz donate $3 million a year to the cause. Concordia Link - Picketers boycott Indigo-Israel connection Picketers outside Indigo's downtown bookstore last Saturday urged shoppers not to enter because the Chapters-Indigo's CEO heads a foundation that supports foreign soldiers who fight in the Israeli army. ... According to Christoff, the purpose of the pickets is “to direct the protest for something constructive and give people the ability to take an active role on it.” October 8, 2007 Tony Karon - My Favorite ‘Anti-Semite' The utterly charming thing about the Zionist Thought Police is their apparent inability to restrain themselves, even from the very excesses that will prove to be their own undoing. Having asked sane and rational people to believe that Jimmy Carter is a Holocaust denier simply for pointing out the obvious about the apartheid regime Israel maintains in the occupied territories, the same crew now want us to believe that Archbishop Desmond Tutu is an anti-Semite. No jokes! (Tony Karon is a a journalist from Cape Town, South Africa. He currently lives in New York and is a senior editor at TIME.com) BBC - Bishops' warning over Middle East Three senior bishops have made public a letter they wrote to the prime minister about hopes for peace in the Middle East after he failed to reply.The letter, written three months ago, accused Israel of undermining the chance of a future Palestinian state. The Bishops of Exeter, Winchester and Coventry believe only a two-state solution will create peace. .October 4, 2007 I am hereby filing a complaint against the Government of Canada for violating the Canadian Human Rights Act and Canada Revenue Agency Policy Statement CPS-021 by subsidizing racial discrimination through granting and maintaining charitable status for the Jewish National Fund ("JNF"), an organization whose bylaws and operations have been deemed to represent racial discrimination by the United Nations Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (1998) and the Attorney General of Israel (2005). The following facts are relevant to this complaint:. |
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