The old dream of Ariel Sharon is becoming a reality: Palestinians are killing Palestinians, and Israel is counting the number of victims with great satisfaction. The tears of Israeli leaders are crocodile tears, and their claims that they are sorry for the tragic developments in Gaza are mere hypocrisy. The bloody confrontations were predictable, and the Israeli-US responsibility and active involvement are crystal clear.

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Despite the complete political silence of Fatah al-Islam indicating its purpose or vision of the world—save for a few empty and hastily composed statements—its fighters’ willingness to die so readily has become well known. Hence, they can be described as those affiliated to a jihadi movement a la al-Qaeda. (more…)

One of Nahr al-Bared’s displaced at an UNRWA school in Baddawi Refugee Camp.

Starting on 20 May, Nahr al Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon with an estimated 40,000 inhabitants, came under bombardment by Lebanese military forces. The military assault on the densely populated refugee camp took place after a clash between Lebanese security forces and an armed salifist group called Fatah al Islam, which had infiltrated the civilian refugee camp.

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Mario Girard, La Presse, le dimanche 03 juin 2007

L’appel au boycottage des librairies Indigo-Chapters lancé il y a quelques mois a monté d’un cran hier alors que des groupes se disant contre «l’apartheid israélien» ont tenu une manifestation plus importante devant l’une de ces librairies au centre-ville de Montréal.
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BOYCOTT THE ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL! END ISRAELI APARTHEID! 

As part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israeli apartheid,
In the context of a week of action against Israeli occupation and apartheid,

PICKET & OUTDOOR FILM PROJECTION to
BOYCOTT the 2nd ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL IN MONTREAL

TUESDAY, JUNE 5th, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Cinéma du Parc
3575 avenue du Parc
Metro Place des Arts

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“END THE OCCUPATION! JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE”

Rally: Canada, Stop subsidizing Israeli Aparthed thru the Jewish National Fund
Queen Elizabeth Hotel, 900 Blvd René Levesque W.
Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 4:30pm to 6pm

Join us in a demonstration outside the JNF annual fundraiser at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. (more…)

Three actions, part of a rising global campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, are taking place in a week of action building up to an international day of action on Saturday, June 9th.

Actions organized by: Coalition against Israeli Apartheid-Montreal, Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine, Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU) and the Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation.

CALENDAR OF ACTIONS (more…)

A second sign-on statement on the events in Nahr al-Bared
initiated by As’ad Abu Khalil and Samah Idriss (see first statement)

Palestinians fleeing the Nakba, 1948

Note: See below for details on how to sign on.
 
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED:

Accuse the majority of our Lebanese leaders of using the Palestinian people and its resistance for their sectarian and petty agendas. We accuse them of attempting to justify the attack on an over-populated Palestinian-Lebanese camp by using the slogan of ‘sovereignty,” that is often employed in Lebanon against the weak and the poor. We accuse them of adhering to a fascist ideology similar to the one that justified the siege of Tal Al-Zaatar and Dbayyeh camps in the mid-seventies, and of adopting Bush’s discourse on terrorism, as if the Palestinian people as a whole are responsible for a gang that Lebanese authorities themselves admit has no popular base in the camp. We accuse them of concealing the creation of a security apparatus that is not subject to the jurisdiction and monitoring of the people and their representatives; just like those, who falsely claim sovereignty today, covered up the security apparatus during the period of the Syrian-regime’s control in Lebanon. (more…)

IMPORTANT: Check for frequent updates from the Relief Campaign.

The Nahr el Bared Relief Campaign was spontaneously formed following the tragic events in Nahr el Bared Camp. Formed by friends of Tadamon!, they are a grouping of unaffiliated individuals, including students, professors, and activists, working on relief and civil action to end the violence and offer aid to those injured and displaced due to the Nahr el Bared conflict. In the north, we operate primarily in Baddawi camp through the civil society organization League of Al Awda, which is a composite group of twenty-three various groups, and in Beirut our base of operations is the Shatila camp.

Scores of refugees have been fleeing the camp to go to Badawi and other refugee camps, people’s homes and UNRWA schools. The Relief Campaign has been coordinating with relief NGOs in Beirut who are going up to the North to assist the refugees.

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Tripoli, Lebanon. Wearing a beat-up ratty UNCHR tee-shirt left over from Bint Jbeil and the Israeli-Hezbollah July probably helped. As did, I suspect, the Red Cross jersey, my black and white checkered kaffieyh and the Palestinian flag taped to my lapel as I joined a group of Palestinian aid workers and slipped into Nahr el-Bared trying not to look conspicuous. (more…)