Interview with journalist Jooneed Khan, for Tadamon! by Stefan Christoff.

Photo: U.N. school shelled by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip.

Major gaps exist between different narratives on the recent war in Gaza; as major Canadian media outlets and human rights organizations on the ground in Gaza offer strikingly different pictures of the conflict.

U.N. officials have labeled recent Israeli actions as ‘disproportionate’ while the U.N. Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories issued a statement outlining the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip as representing “severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law.”

In discord to U.N. positions on Gaza statements from the Conservative government of Canada consistently painted Israel’s actions as defensive in nature. Editorials across the Canadian media offered a similar line to the Conservative government.

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Interview with Derrick O’Keefe, editor of rabble.ca, by Stefan Christoff.

Photo: Mohanned Mansour. Solidarity protests with Gaza in Montreal.

Media coverage in Canada on the latest war in Gaza often failed to clearly represent the situation on the ground in Palestine and also the response in Canada to the latest crisis.

As thousands gathered for unprecedented street protests in solidarity with Palestinian human rights across the country, mainstream media often downplayed the numbers protesting and at times misrepresented the messages expressed at the demonstrations.

Street protests in Canada against the latest Israeli attack on Gaza were the largest Palestinian solidarity demonstrations in Canadian history, while reports from major media outlets, including the CBC, did not accurately convey the unprecedented size of the protests.

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March 1st – 9th, 2009

Join us to make 2009 a year of struggle against apartheid and for justice and peace!

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual international series of events held in cities and campuses across the globe. Israeli Apartheid Week aims to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement. In Montreal, local solidarity groups and individuals are planning nine full days of awareness-raising events ranging from lectures and workshops to film screenings.

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photo exhibition launch!

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13th 2009
6-8pm Bar Populaire
6584 St-Laurent
this is a free event

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featuring leading journalists addressing the recent Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 6th 17h00 – 18h00
live broadcast on CKUT Radio, 90.3fm
tune-in globally via live stream at www.ckut.ca

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février 2009, Tadamon! Montreal

Photo: Darren Ell. Ballons aux couleurs de la Palestine en hommage aux enfants tués .

« Des ballons pour la paix » tel est le titre d’un article paru dans le Devoir le lundi 26 janvier 2009 concernant la manifestation de solidarité au peuple palestinien qui a eu lieu le dimanche 25 janvier 2009. Quelques erreurs se sont malencontreusement glissées sous la plume du journaliste qu’il convient de mettre en lumière.

L’article fait état de 250 personnes présentes or, selon la CBC Radio, il y avait au moins 1000 manifestants dans les rues de Montréal. Au-delà de l’inexactitude du chiffre, c’est le choix même des mots employés qui est problématique.

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photo essay from Darren Ell. extended visual slide-show

Photo: Protesting complicity of the Canadian government with Israeli military actions.

Thousands marched on the streets of Montreal throughout recent weeks to protest the Israeli military campaign in Gaza which took an estimated 1300 Palestinian lives in the Gaza Strip. Beyond Montreal protests mounted around the world from Europe, to the Middle East, to Latin America, mobilizations for Gaza that mark some of the largest Palestinian solidarity demonstrations in recent history.

Protests in Montreal in solidarity with Gaza were documented by photojournalist Darren Ell. Tadamon! features selected images from an extended visual slide-show.

As the world monitors a fragile ceasefire in Gaza across the Gaza Strip, Palestinians are slowly rebuilding after the devastating military attack, which saw the U.N. administered schools, the Islamic University of Gaza, hundreds of homes and civilian infrastructure bombed in Israeli air strikes across Gaza.

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Mary Ellen Davis, Le Devoir, jeudi 29 janvier 2009.

Photo: la mort et destruction dans la bande de Gaza.

Les quartiers en ruines dans la bande de Gaza. Des maisons, des immeubles, des édifices: pulvérisés. Comme dans le titre du livre de l’écrivain québecois Rawi Hage: Parfum de poussière. Parmi les décombres, des âmes perdues errent à la recherche des dépouilles d’êtres chers, ou de leurs biens.

Mais nous nous détournons afin de regarder l’avènement de Barack Obama, objet de tous les espoirs. Les scénaristes israéliens ont bien organisé l’enchaînement. À l’aube d’une nouvelle ère, qu’importent les vies perdues, les familles décimées, les blessés, les mutilés, les endeuillés, les médecins et les infirmiers surmenés et ciblés, les 50 000 sans-abri, le tout formant un peuple privé d’État depuis 60 ans?

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By Stefan Christoff, Sada al Mashrek.

Photo: Sabrien Amrov. Gaza solidarity protests in Montreal.

Response to Israel’s latest military attack on Gaza in Canada took a strikingly different tone on the streets and within the halls of power.

On the streets across Canada thousands marched in solidarity with Gaza, marking some of the largest Palestinian solidarity demonstrations in Canadian history.

Tens-of-thousands marched in Montreal and Toronto in the cold winter winds calling not only for an end to Israel’s military attack on Gaza but also for a boycott of the Israeli government; sparks of decisive movement in solidarity with Palestine rooted in the international boycott campaign that struck a critical blow to the apartheid regime in South Africa.

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February 2009: Israeli resistance to apartheid.

Photo: ActiveStills. Demonstration against attack on Gaza in Israel.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21st
“Israeli resistance to apartheid”
6:00pm Comité Sociale Centre-Sud
1710 Beaudry (metro Beaudry)
entry by donation ($5 or more suggested)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd
“Anarchism in Israel and the politics of solidarity”
1:00pm Café Cagibi
5490 St-Laurent
entry by donation ($5 or more suggested)

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