Canadian Association of University Teachers CAUT September 28, 2009.

Photo: Antoine Rouleau, satellites to the world in Montreal, Quebec.

(Ottawa, September 28, 2009) Minister Gary Goodyear’s office threatened to withhold federal budget funding for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) over its decision to fund a controversial academic conference, according to an email obtained by CAUT through Access to Information.

CAUT first learned in June that Minister Goodyear had telephoned SSHRC president Chad Gaffield to insist on reconsideration of a peer-reviewed decision to fund an academic conference called “Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace” held at York University later that month.

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September 23, 2009. Dear President Obama.

Photo: Zoriah (c) Destroyed Palestinian building in Gaza Strip.

Our wounds in Gaza are still open, our justice still denied. Israel’s 23 day offensive (28 December 2008- 19 January 2009) has left our children afraid to return to school, and feeling unsafe in their beds. The war, and the continued closure of the Gaza Strip, has undermined the capacity of mothers and fathers to act as protectors and providers. As a community, we will struggle for decades to live with the consequences.

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Activists and Combatants | Palestinian Perspectives 5th édition

October 21 to 30 2009
Cinémathèque québécoise
www.cinematheque.qc.ca
335, boul. de Maisonneuve est
Métro Berri-UQAM
7$ | 6$ for students and elders
4$ for children 6-15 years

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Interview with Rawi Hage, by Rima Hammoudi.

Photo: Tanya Traboulsi Sky over sea, Beirut, Lebanon.

As we made ourselves comfortable on a terrace at a nearby café, Rawi Hage began scanning the neighboring tables for an ashtray. “Do you mind if I smoke?” I didn’t, and reached over behind me and snagged the seemingly last ashtray that had yet to be claimed. Not lighting up right away, Hage began maneuvering a small, tightly packed cigar between his fingers as he began telling me about his travel plans for the summer: Europe, Australia and all of Canada. There is so much to see, we agreed, and any city, town or far off countryside is as good as any to start with.

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Defense for Children International DCI – Palestine: 2009/09/24

Photo: Dan Owen. Israeli military forces repressing demonstrations in Bil’in, Palestine.

On 23 September 2009, Defence for Children International (DCI), along with 14 other European and international humanitarian, development, human rights and peace organisations, sent a letter to EU ministers of foreign affairs attaching a briefing paper highlighting nine key inconsistencies in the EU’s approach to the Middle East Peace Process. The briefing paper also includes recommendations as to how the EU can rectify these inconsistencies.

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Haaretz by Gideon Levy, September 25th, 2009.

Photo: Windows at United Nations building in New York City.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cheapened the memory of the Holocaust in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. He did so twice. Once, when he brandished proof of the very existence of the Holocaust, as if it needed any, and again when he compared Hamas to the Nazis.

If Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust, Netanyahu cheapens it. Is there a need of proof, 60 years later? Or, the world might think, is the denier right?

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September 29, 2009, DCI-Palestine submits to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

Photo: Palestinian children walk along the Israeli apartheid wall in Palestine.

On 29 September 2009, DCI-Palestine submitted 11 cases to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. The cases arise out of three incidents where the Israeli army entered Palestinian villages in the middle of the night and rounded up children en masse, accusing them of throwing stones at the Wall and settler by-pass roads in the West Bank.

The first incident occurred in the village of Tura al Gharbiya, near Jenin, in the early hours of 19 January 2009. Units from the Israeli army took children as young as 12 years old from their homes and interrogated them in the village youth centre before transferring them to an interrogation and detention centre. The children report being beaten and threatened into providing confessions stating that they threw stones at the Wall.

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guardian.co.uk Thursday 24 September 2009.

Photo: Masser Israel’s apartheid wall in occupied Palestine.

Spain’s government today said it had expelled a group of Israeli scientists from a state-funded solar energy competition because they were based in occupied areas of the West Bank.

The decision to expel the team from the Ariel University Centre of Samaria from Solar Decathlon Europe, an international competition involving 20 universities, provoked angry reactions in Israel.

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Campagne de Boycott – Désinvestissement – Sanctions au Forum social québécois

Samedi 10 Octobre 9h00 à 17h00
UQAM, 315 Ste-Catherine est
local R-M 120
Montréal, Québec

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Hour by Stefan Christoff, September 17th, 2009.

Photo: Valerian Mazataud. In Montreal Mohammed Khatib speaks to the media.

Eyewitnesses on the ground in Bil’in, Palestine, recount that in the early morning hours of Sept. 16, Israeli occupation forces seriously beat Palestinian community member and activist Mohammad Khatib during a nighttime military raid on civilian homes in Bil’in.

“As Israeli soldiers came into Bil’in, Mohammad came over to the soldiers who were raiding a civilian home without pretext and threw him down on the ground and began beating him,” outlines Israeli human rights lawyer Emily Schaeffer who represents Bil’in village.

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