La campagne « Boycott, désinvestissement et sanctions contre l’Apartheid israélien » se poursuit avec force alors que 600 personnes assistent à une conférence historique à Toronto

(Toronto, le 9 octobre 2006) – Plus de 600 personnes ont assisté à une conférence historique intitulée « Le boycott de l’Apartheid israélien : la lutte continue », tenue du 6 au 8 octobre à Toronto, au Canada. La conférence représente un moment crucial pour le mouvement de solidarité avec la Palestine, et a mis en vedette plusieurs militants et militantes anti-apartheid originaires de la Palestine, de l’Afrique du Sud, du Canada et de l’Angleterre, qui se sont prononcés sur des stratégies pour faire avancer la campagne globale de boycott, de désinvestissement et de sanctions.

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The following interviews were conducted in the lead up to the first-ever conference on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Against Israeli apartheid, with three of the conference’s key participants.

The conference, “The struggle continues: Boycotting Israeli Apartheid“, is happening in Toronto from October 6th to the 8th.  

• Talk given by Rafeef Ziadah during Tadamon’s Fires of War :: Voices of Resistance event in Montreal: Audio link.

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L’apartheid israélien : Racisme, occupation et discrimination

Un débat public sur l’apartheid israélien avec Jamal Juma’a de la Campagne contre le mur d’Apartheid

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MERCREDI 4 OCTOBRE, 19:30h
Ecole de Community & Public Affairs
Université Concordia
2149 MacKay (sous de Maisonneuve)
Métro Guy Concordia.
Contribution appréciée.
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Boycotting Israeli Apartheid: The Struggle Continues
Conference on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, 6-8 October 2006

Register now. (If you are planning to go to this conference from Montreal, you are welcome to coordinate travel with us at Tadamon.)

Featuring:
Jamal Jum’a – Coordinator, Stop the Wall Campaign (Palestine)
Willie Madisha – Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Salim Vally – Palestine Solidarity Committee (South Africa)

As the Israeli states works to finalize its apartheid laws, walls, and the bantustanization of the indigenous Palestinian people and prepares to eliminate popular resistance to its aggression in the region, the Palestinian and Lebanese people remain steadfast under increasingly brutal conditions. Meanwhile, the economic and political leaderships of Western governments, with the US and Canada at the forefront, have increased their efforts to normalize international relations with the Israeli apartheid regime.  

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Before the Israeli assault on Lebanon, Tadamon! delegation member Stefan Christoff visited Mar Elias and Borj el Barajneh, two of the Palestinian Refugee Camps located in Beirut. Palestinians have been living in the camps for generations but are still being denied the right of return to their homeland. At the same time, they are denied many of their basic economic and civil rights by Lebanon.

 

Christoff’s photo essay documents the state of these two camps and the continued struggle. 

The massive attack on Lebanon in July displaced Lebanese but also affected Lebanon’s hundreds of thousands of migrant workers and refugees.

The Migration Policy Institute, prepared a report – The Lebanese Crisis and Its Impact on Immigrants and Refugees, by Kara Murphy – summarising some of the impact according to official sources.

Israel must take responsibility for the dreadful human toll in Lebanon

By Peter Bouckaert, Emergencies Director, Human Rights Watch

Published in Guardian Unlimited

Day after day, Israeli government spokesmen insist that everything they are doing accords with international humanitarian law. Endless communiqués insist that Israel’s behaviour is “proportionate”. Let us be blunt: those claims are fantasy, as the carnage in Qana has shown once again.

I have seen my share of modern wars, as a researcher at Human Rights Watch. In Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, we found many civilian casualties due to bombing campaigns. Civilians fleeing attacks were hit by mistake. In Iraq, US bombs often hit civilian homes, hours after Saddam Hussein or members of his inner circle had left, missing their legitimate targets but killing civilians. In Lebanon it is a very different picture. Time after time, Israel strikes at civilian homes and civilian vehicles attempting to flee the besieged southern border zone, killing families without any military objective in sight.

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by Emad Mekay, Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World Debt

http://www.cadtm.org/article.php3?id_article=2017

Lebanon is firmly en route to becoming the third nation in the Middle East after Iraq and the Palestinian territories to experience a devastating Washington-backed war and a massive influx of new illegitimate debt to cover reconstruction expenses, anti-debt activists say. (Lire la suite…)

STRATÉGIES DE SOLIDARITÉ AVEC LE LIBAN À MONTRÉAL

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MERCREDI, le 27 septembre à 20 heures
Auditorium Frank Dawson Adams
3450, rue Université, 2ème étage
[au coin des rues Milton et Université; métro McGill]
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Conférenciers et conférencières * Repas Iftar communautaire * Poésie * Films * Halte-Garderie gratuite

Tract pour anoncer l’événement ici.    Affiche ici.    Annonce pour la radio ici.

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Radio Tadamon! Echoes of War from Beirut to Montreal
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This edition of Radio Tadamon! features sounds from Beirut recorded during the height of the Israeli assault on Lebanon and voices from the streets of Montreal recorded during multiple solidarity demonstrations with the Lebanese people.

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