• Montreal Israeli Apartheid Week 2010

    6th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week summary On behalf of the organizing committee of Israeli Apartheid Week, we would like to thank everyone who attended or supported IAW 2010. This year”s week, the 6th annual edition, was a huge success!?? Panelists and presenters at IAW touched on many important themes throughout the week, such as recent […]

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  • Semantics and Apartheid

    by Kim Petersen / March 18th, 2010 In Canada, support for Zionism and Israeli oppression of Palestinians is deeply entrenched in the political duopoly. Liberal prime minister Paul Martin even proclaimed, “Israel”s values are Canada”s values,” as if Canada had to look elsewhere to determine its own values. Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper tried to […]

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  • Israel’s apartheid: Making Palestinians pay for Hitler’s crimes

    By Suzanne Weiss This speech was given by Suzanne Weiss on March 2, 2010, to a meeting of students at the University of Waterloo in Canada, held as part of the Israeli Apartheid Week. Suzanne Weiss, a holocaust survivor, is a member of Not in Our Name: Jewish Voices Against Zionism and of the Coalition […]

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  • A View From Toronto – A Hub of “Israel Delegitimization”

    Rafeef Ziadah As a Palestinian refugee, the city of Toronto has always been a place of exile to me. I usually think of it as a large (rather cold) waiting room on my way back to Haifa where my grandparents were born. However, following the publication of a recent report by the prominent Israeli think-tank, […]

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  • Israel is an apartheid state and that is why they are losing legitimacy

    rabble.ca by Judy Rebick | March 2, 2010 Before Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) even began members of the Ontario Legislature and the Canadian Parliament are falling all over each other to denounce it. I can”t remember another time when elected legislators formally denounced a student activity like this. Perhaps during the 1950″s when McCarthyism was […]

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  • Size doesn’t matter …but apartheid does

    March 2, 2010 Link newspaper Concordia University, by Aaron Lakoff The sixth annual Israeli Apartheid Week is back again in Montreal, and will be featuring events on three campuses in the city from March 4 to 11. Every year for the last six years, many cities (43 cities participated last year) around the world join […]

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  • Building international solidarity during Israeli Apartheid Week

    Ilaria Giglioli, The Electronic Intifada, 1 March 2010 In March 2005, a group of activists from the Arab Student Collective at the University of Toronto launched the first Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). The aim of the week was two-fold. On one hand, it sought to break the wall of silence and misrepresentation around what was […]

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  • Carleton students launch divestment campaign

    February 24th, 2010 view Carleton University divestment campaign video on-line Carleton students have released a report detailing how the Carleton University Pension fund invests in companies involved in violations of human rights and of international law. The report was created by Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA Carleton), who are launching a campaign to end Carleton”s […]

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  • Montreal: 500 Artists Against Israeli Apartheid

    February 25, 2010 – A call from Montreal artists to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israeli apartheid… Today, a broad spectrum of Montreal artists are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and supporting the growing international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli state. […]

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