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November 27, 2005 Canadian Dimension - The New Israel Lobby in Action This is not about Jews. It is not about race, ethnicity or religion. It is about power. The new Israel lobby in Canada — the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA) — has enormous power, derived from abundant resources, corporate connections, political associations, elaborate and able organization and a cadre of dedicated activists. Since its inception several years ago, this hard-line lobby has used its power, first, to gain political hegemony and impose ideological conformity on the matter of Israel within a heretofore diverse Jewish community, and second, to influence government decisions and shape public opinion regarding Israel — ostensibly in the name of all Canadian Jewry. November 27, 2005 Elmasry - Are Israel's Values Canada's Values? Earlier this month, in a speech delivered at the United Jewish Communities' General Assembly in Toronto, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said, "we have understood in Canada for some time now, that Israel's values are Canada's values." November 27, 2005 Yesterday, during a Senate debate over Canada's recent voting patterns on UN resolutions related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, Senator Marcel Prud'homme (Liberal) alleged that Justice Minister and member of the Interparliamentary Canada-Israel Friendship Group Irwin Cotler was effectively usurping the powers of Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew in dictating Canadian Middle East policy.
November 22, 2005 Gary D. Keenan - The Failure of the 2001 Taba II Negotiations and subsequent events This is the third and final article I have written for Canpalnet-Ottawa to expose the lie that the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was responsible for the collapse of the peace process. The previous two articles are entitled (1) " The Truth Regarding the 2000 Camp David Summit " and " The Outbreak of the Al Aqsa or Second Intifada " (A) Taba II During December 2000, President Clinton hosted Israeli and Palestinian representatives in Washington and presented them with a bridging proposal he hoped would end the Al Aqsa intifada which had erupted on September 29 th . As a consequence, Israeli and Palestinian delegations held marathon talks at the Egyptian resort of Taba from January 22 to January 28, 2001. November 22, 2005 David Himmelstein - Finkelstein wows audience at McGill November 20, 2005 Nizar Sakhnini: A borderless state pending territorial expansion November 20, 2005 David Himmelstein - Drawing the line at Sharon
November 20, 2005 Electronic Intifada - Protest in Bil'in For one year now, the residence of Bil'in have been holding peaceful demonstrations every week, yet Israel continues to confiscate their land, expand its settlements, and build its wall without a word from the international community. This is paving the way for Israel's full domination of Palestinians in the West Bank or what Israeli professor, Jeff Halper, refers to as "full-blown apartheid". (Includes pictures and video footage.) The author, Khaled Al Sabawi is a 22-year-old Canadian student from the University of Waterloo (UW) in Canada. He is currently in Ramallah, on a 4-month work term. He is a founding member and former President of Students for Palestinian Rights (SFPR) at the University of Waterloo.
November 18, 2005 A group called the Coalition Against International War Crimes filed a hefty brief with the federal government before Sharon's anticipated visit, invoking Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act. They argued that Sharon's political career – most notably his tenure as defence minister during the 1982 massacres in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon – were grounds to deny him entry to Canada. View Coalition Against Israel's War Crimes brief filed with the federal government and signed by 77 organizations. November 16, 2005 Montreal Serai - West Bank Landscaping The wall was smaller two years ago. It was even "climbable", when soldiers were not patrolling. The reasons for climbing over it, in either direction? To get to classes, hospitals, work, shops, family, places of worship, and then back home. The steady stream of « delinquents » did not object to being photographed, filmed, while defying the law of the occupier, since this is a question of basic dignity: over the blocks went schoolkids, teachers, university students, elegantly dressed women, workers, the elderly, the blind, the crippled, mothers, new born babies and toddlers.
November 15, 2005 CJN - Sabeel conference not funded by taxes: CIDA A federal agency is denying an allegation from Stockwell Day, the Conservative Party of Canada's foreign affairs critic, that tax dollars were used to help fund a Toronto conference on divesting from Israel. In an Oct. 28 statement, Day noted that among the four-day conference's sponsors was Toronto-based KAIROS, the Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, which “has received $2.9-million from the Canadian International Development Agency over the past two years, despite the stance that it has taken firmly on one side of the [Middle East] debate. November 13, 2005 I understand the three of you will be speaking at the General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities to be held in Toronto from November 13-16, 2005. The General Assembly website indicates that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has also been invited to speak at the same event. You have chosen to ignore the objections and protests of Canadian civil and legal society, who, along with human rights groups around the world, view Ariel Sharon as a war criminal. November 12, 2005 Sabawi - A detailed analysis of the Amman Bombings Today as thousands of Arabs take to the streets of Amman to protest the heinous murders that resulted from the bombing of three hotels in their home town, millions more around the world are trying to figure out just what went wrong. This is not the time to seek comfort in cliché³ and conspiracy theories but a time for us as Arabs to examine how it is that we've come to this predicament. November 12, 2005 Montreal joins the International Week Against the Israeli Apartheid Wall SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1pm-3pm Corner of Ste-Catherine and McGill College Montreal-area activists will be joining demonstrations and actions around the globe as part of the International Week Against the Apartheid Wall, organized by the Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall campaign, and supported by the Montreal Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine. November 12, 2005 Brock Press: Ariel Sharon's upcoming Toronto visit sparks protest. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's scheduled appearance at the United Jewish Communities General Assembly in Toronto on Nov. 13 has many outraged. This planned visit is causing massive uproar and controversy as to whether or not an individual that is known as a war criminal should be welcomed or even allowed to set foot on Canadian soil without any repercussions. Many Canadians are joining forces to protest his visit before the big day arrives. A legal challenge, public forum, and mass demonstration have been organized in order to deny Sharon entry into Canada. The Coalition Against Israel's War Crimes (CAIWC) has since been created for this purpose, and encompasses over 20 organizations that are hoping to make a difference with this issue. These organizations include Muslim, Arab, and Jewish communities, faith groups, trade unionists, peace and human rights campaigners, elected officials, concerned citizens and students. November 6, 2005 Now Toronto - Sanctioning a boycott Walking down the aisle of Trinity St. Paul's Church on Bloor on Wednesday, October 26, I stumble straight into the words of Desmond Tutu comparing the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories to South African apartheid. "If apartheid ended, so can the occupation," according to the words of the archbishop flashed on the screen in front of those packing the pews to hear Jeff Halper, among the best-known of Israeli dissidents, who made his name protesting the bulldozing of Palestinian homes by his country's army. November 4, 2005 Relief Web - Ongoing crisis in Gaza demands world attention: Israel's wanton attacks must stop. Since the Israeli settlers withdrew and the army redeployed from the Gaza Strip, the Strip has been subjected to constant attacks and unbearable collective punishments imposed by the Israeli army and aimed primarily at innocent civilians. November 4, 2005 Gary D. Keenan - The 2000 Al Aqsa or Second Intifada This is the second of three articles I have written for Canpalnet-Ottawa to expose the lie that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was responsible for the disintegration of the peace process. The first article is entitled " The Truth Regarding the 2000 Camp David Summit". During the two months following the collapse of the Camp David Summit on 25 July 2000, little violence occurred in the occupied territories despite the fact that Israel reneged on its earlier commitments regarding territorial withdrawals and continued with illegal settlement expansion. November1, 2005 Montreal Planet Magazine - The Death of Rosa Parks and the Palestinian Human Rights Movement Despite some victories, the struggle for recognition of "we are all the same" continues across the planet. Unfortunately there is no shortage of propagandists and apologists who spend a lifetime coming up with false justifications to deny equal human and civil rights to the "other".One of the longest and enduring cases of such injustice continues to be the Israeli regimes' sixty year denial of the basic human and civil rights of the indigenous Palestinian people.
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