BDS Israel economics
WATCH: a conversation about BDS with Gabor Mate, Mira Sucharov and more
Four Jewish panelists (one Israeli and three Canadians) discuss the pros and cons of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel.
The campaign arose from a call in 2005 by various Palestinian civil society groups to exert worldwide pressure on Israel to treat its Palestinian citizens with full equality, to end the occupation of Arab lands, and to comply with provisions of international law regarding the rights of Palestinian refugees.
The four panelists:
Michael Barkusky - Economist, accountant and political activist in South Africa (1970-77) and Canada (1989 - present)
Gabor Mate - Vancouver physician and author
Yonatan Shapira - Israeli peace activist
Jesse Rosenfeld: The Palestinian struggle, BDS and Canadian aid
June 21, 2010 at the Beit Zatoun House, Toronto
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Our Way to Fight: Book Talk and Discussion with Michael Riordon
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OUR WAY TO FIGHT:
Book Talk and Discussion with Author
MICHAEL RIORDON
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=310653378961000
Join the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, Independent Jewish Voices - Vancouver, and Queers Against Israeli Apartheid - Vancouver for a book talk and discussion with Michael Riordon on the release of his new work, Our Way to Fight, which highlights the voices of grassroots organizers and peace workers on the ground in Palestine. His work recovers voices and stories of people who are silenced or relegated to the margins, written out of the official version.
Praise for OUR WAY TO FIGHT:
Human Drama in Gaza photo exhibition
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The University of Saskatchewan's Humanities Research Unit (HRU) will be hosting Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's (CJPME) Human Drama in Gaza photo exhibition.
CJPME and the HRU invite Saskatonians to view the exhibition and learn more about the Gaza situation. "The suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza during the Israeli onslaught, and the increasing misery brought on by Israel's blockade of Gaza are issues that should concern all Canadians," adds Woodley. The exhibition has been seen by thousands in Montreal, Lévis, Ottawa, Toronto, Yellowknife, Hamilton, London and Edmonton.
The United Church Of Canada debates the Israeli Boycott
continued from here (was United Church of Canada in bed with the CJC).
Re-titled for obvious reasons.
Here is hoping that the UCC delegates have the resolve to make some of these resolutions stick and that we get a little help from our friends.
And may Bernie Farber and the CJC publicity/thought squad choke on their own bile!
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Tell MEC to Stop Supporting Israeli Apartheid!
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The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign against Israel is ... working!
"The growing protest against the atrocities committed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip has begun to change something in the Israeli political discourse, and the first indication of this can already be seen in the Israeli economic media. Although the Israeli economic media doesn't concern itself with the moral dimension of the attacks on Gaza, the economic dimension of recent events has created a rising level of concern. "
The Marker, an Israeli magazine for economic news, outlines a number of successes by the BDS campaign.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/hever090309.html
Alternative Information Centre: http://www.alternativenews.org/
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