Link Newspaper par Justin Giovannetti — Novembre 2010

Photo Palestiniens line-up au point de contrôle militaire israélien en Palestine occupée.

Ramallah, Palestine – « Pas de photos ! » cria le chauffeur palestinien alors qu’il se faufilait avec son autocar dans une circulation dense et malaisée en direction du check-point de Qalandya.

Même si le chauffeur reconnut que les Forces de défense israéliennes n’auraient probablement pas tiré sur un étranger qui prenait des photos, l’usage de la force meurtrière est autorisé à Qalandya. Les 600 autres check-points israéliens dispersés à travers la Cisjordanie opèrent de la même manière. Les Palestiniens se voient régulièrement rappelés à cette réalité.

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by Isabelle Saint-Mézard Le Monde diplomatique

Photo Kashmir youth battles against Indian military forces.

India and Israel were born (in 1947 and 1948) through long and violent partition processes, from the ruins of the British empire. Both were caught up in inextricable armed conflicts. Yet this did not make for any particular affinity between the countries: rather the reverse.

From the 1920s onwards, the leaders of India’s nationalist movement sided with the Palestinian Arabs against British imperialism, opposing the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state. India voted against the partition of Palestine at the UN General Assembly of 1947, and only recognised Israel in 1950. Until the 1980s it formed a bloc with the Arab countries at the UN and within the Non-aligned Movement, in defence of the Palestinian people’s right to a sovereign state.

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PACBI November 2010 response to Nobel laureates’ attack on Israel academic boycott

Photo Israeli apartheid wall cutting through occupied Palestinian West Bank lands.

Once again, the specter of the suppression of academic freedom has been invoked in what is now becoming an organized campaign to counter the growing global movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel, and the academic and cultural boycott in particular. This time, a number of American, European, and Israeli Nobel laureates have been enlisted in the campaign, in the hope that their plea to defend “academic freedom” will stem the tide of this ever-expanding movement.

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Voix Juives Indépendantes Avis Aux Médias 5 novembre 2010

Photo Des fissures dans le mur du conservateur.

Ottawa – Voix Juives Indépendantes (VJI) tiendra une conférence de presse lundi à Ottawa et remettra une vidéo aux médias et aux députés, laquelle met en évidence le nombre croissant d’attaques du gouvernement Harper contre la liberté d’expression.

Le ministre de l’Immigration, Jason Kenney, et le gouvernement Harper parrainent une conférence internationale qui aura lieu à Ottawa les 8 et 9 novembre, organisée par la Coalition interparlementaire de lutte contre l’antisémitisme (CILA). Celle-ci fait suite aux audiences de l’équivalent local de la CILA, la Coalition parlementaire canadienne de lutte contre l’antisémitisme (CPCCA), qui se sont tenues plus tôt cette année.

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EPACBI statement launch Paris 26 September 2010

Photo Israeli apartheid wall cutting through Palestine.

This declaration announces the establishment of a common European platform for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. The national, regional and local organisations and movements adhering to this platform:

* Accept and promote the boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions and divestment from companies that contribute to Israel’s grave violations of international law and human rights;

* Support the call of Palestinian civil society for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) and accept the guidelines on its implementation issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) through the Palestine Boycott National Committee (BNC).

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Rami G. Khouri Daily Star Novembre 2010. traduction : JPP

Photo Matthew Cassel Un garçon tient son sac à dos trouvé dans les décombres de sa maison familiale à Jabaliya, qui a été détruit par Israël.

Cette décision fut prise par Israël dans sa crainte que des officiels israéliens soient arrêtés et inculpés au Royaume-Uni pour crimes contre l’humanité et ce, en vertu d’une loi britannique qui lui octroie « une juridiction universelle » dans de tels cas, c’est-à-dire qu’un ressortissant de n’importe quel pays, soupçonné de tels crimes, peut être accusé, placé en détention et jugé par un tribunal britannique, même si les crimes allégués ont été commis dans un pays tiers et si on ne compte pas de citoyens britanniques parmi les victimes. La dirigeante du parti Kadima d’Israël, Tzipi Livni, a récemment annulé un voyage à Londres, tout comme le vice-premier ministre, Dan Meridor, cette semaine, ayant été informé qu’il risquait d’y être arrêté.

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Cinema Politica | Tadamon! coprésentation | photo Matthew Cassel Just Image

Lundi 15 novembre 2010
la projection commence à 19 h
entrée gratuite! vos dons sont les bienvenus
Salle H-110
Université Concordia
1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest

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Richard Falk, Electronic Intifada 5 November 2010

Photo Wolf Bonpiedbonoeil Israeli apartheid wall in Palestine.

The following is an oral presentation made by Richard Falk, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967, to the United Nations General Assembly on 20 October 2010:

As this is my last report to the General Assembly in my term as Special Rapporteur on the Situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 it seems appropriate to describe some of the special difficulties that have faced the mandate-holder in discharging the functions of the position. The most salient of these difficulties involves the non-cooperation of the Government of Israel. Israel has refused to fulfill its obligations as a member of the United Nations by its repeated failures to allow the special rapporteur to enter Israel so as to visit periodically the occupied territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza ever since his expulsion on 14 December 2008 from Ben Gurion Airport when attempting to enter the country. This level of non-cooperation greatly exceeds that associated with the efforts of my predecessor, the distinguished South African international lawyer John Dugard who was allowed to enter Israel for purposes of the mandate, but denied access to Israeli political and military officials charged with administering the occupation. It should be pointed out that this record of non-cooperation was extended to such related important UN undertakings, including the “Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict,” widely known as the Goldstone report, and more recently in relation to the fact-finding panel appointed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate the allegations surrounding the flotilla incident of 31 May 2010. In each of these instances Israel reinforced this posture of non-cooperation by engaging in a politics of deflection, defaming the messenger and the auspices rather than contesting and responding to the findings and recommendations of the reports.

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PACBI statement | 2/11/2010

Photo Palestinian flag flies proudly over Ireland hills.

With the 29 September 2010 decision by the Senate of the University of Johannesburg “not to continue a long-standing relationship with Ben Gurion University (BGU) in Israel in its present form” and to set conditions “for the relationship to continue,” a new campaign for the academic boycott of Israel was born at the southern tip of the African continent.[1] Almost in tandem, on 11 October, at the northern tip of the European continent, a fresh academic and cultural boycott was announced in Oslo, endorsed by 100 leading Norwegian figures in the academy, culture and sports.[2]

Two weeks earlier, the European Platform for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (EPACBI) was established, after a successful meeting in Paris of 50 representatives of academic boycott campaigns from 9 European countries and a PACBI representative. The meeting was called at the initiative of the French campaign, AURDIP (Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine), and BRICUP (British Committee for the Universities of Palestine).

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Ezra Winton founder Cinema Politica @ Quebec BDS conference Montreal Oct 2010

Photo Ariel view on Israeli apartheid wall cutting though Palestinian lands.

As someone working in the media arts sector, I signed the 500 artist BDS letter along with Cinema Politica’s Executive Director Svetla Turnin. We signed because it was a tangible action that connected art to the resistance against oppression.

We also signed because we feel that too often artists and those working in the arts who are privately critical of Israel take two paths around the issue of Palestine’s occupation: Ignore it all together in their work and their public life, or adopt a liberal stance that argues it is not the role of art to intervene in such matters.

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