Montreal: Commémorer la Nakba

Photo: Beersheba, Palestine 1948.

Chaque année, au mois de mai, les Israélien-ne-s célèbrent la création de l’état d’Israël en 1948. Pour les palestinien-ne-s, cet anniversaire est connu comme la Nakba, signifiant « catastrophe» en arabe, puisqu’elle commémore l’expulsion illégale du peuple palestinien de leur terre par les forces sionistes en 1948.

En établissant l’état d’Israël, les sionistes ont dépossédé plus de 750, 000 palestiniens de leurs demeures, fermes et vergers les forçant ainsi à s’exiler loin de leurs villages et villes. Malgré la résistance palestinienne au projet colonial, Israël fut tout de même fondée le 14 Mai 1948 créant ainsi des milliers de réfugié-e-s palestinien-ne-s. En effet, plus d’un quart de millions de palestinien-ne-s ont dû quitter leurs maisons en raison de la colonisation et furent donc subséquemment privés de leur terre ancestrale et historique étant donné qu’Israël leur a interdit le droit de retour. S’ajoute à ce nombre un demi-million de réfugié-e-s forcés de fuir suite à la déclaration de l’état d’Israël.

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Canada: 5 au 22 juin 2009.

avec:
Mohammed Khatib.
comité populaire contre le mur, Bil’in, Palestine occupée

Emily Schaeffer.
avocate israélienne représentant le village de Bil’in

Bil’in, un village palestinien de Cisjordanie, est maintenant reconnu mondialement comme un symbole de la résistance populaire palestinienne contre la construction du mur d’apartheid israélien et de colonies sur ses terres. Depuis 2005, les villageois(es) organisent des manifestations toutes les semaines, avec la participation de militantEs israélien(ne)s et internationaux(nales), en opposition à la colonisation illégale israélienne et à l’annexion de terres palestiniennes.

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Ma’an News Agency. 23 / 05 / 2009.

Photo: ActiveStills. Armed Israeli soldier.

Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israeli police and armed border officials shut down the Palestinian National Theater in East Jerusalem on Saturday, in an effort to quash the Palestine Festival of Literature and prevent international writer and poets from addressing Palestinians.

The weeklong festival, sponsored in part by the British Council and UNESCO, was scheduled to begin at 6:30 with two panel discussions by authors from Canada, Britain, South Africa and Australia. The second annual festival will travel around Palestine and decided to begin and end events in Jerusalem in honor of Al-Quds Capital of Culture 2009.

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Projection de film au bénéfice de la tournée canadienne des représentants de Bil’in

JEUDI 28 MAI 20h00
don suggéré: $5-10
Bar Populaire
6584 blvd St. Laurent
(métro Beaubien)

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Mouvements radicaux allant du Weather Underground aux Prisons et à la Palestine.

SAMEDI 16 MAI 2009 à 19h00
avec: Laura Whitehorn et Susie Day
1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest
local LB-125, Cinéma de Sève
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec

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B’Tselem, April 2009. Testimony: Majed al-‘Odeh, quarry worker.

Photo: Scott Weinstein. Graffiti in Hebron painted by Israeli settlers.

I work in a quarry in Beit Fajjar. I have a car with an Israeli license plate. It is in terrible condition, but the registration is valid and I use it to get to work.

Since the second intifada broke out, I have not gone out for fun or on any trips, because we have nowhere to take a trip. My whole life is work. I wanted a bit of a change, so I decided to take a trip with three friends. Last Thursday evening [2 April], we drove in my car from Beit Fajjar on the a-Rashayida road, heading to the Dead Sea.

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dans le cadre de Suoni per il Popolo | photo: Matthew Cassel

DIMANCHE, 7 JUIN, à 20h00
La Sala Rossa
4848, Saint-Laurent
Montréal, Québec
8$ à l’avance, 10$ à la porte
billets disponibles à la Casa Del Popolo

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photos by Ehab Lotayef and Khalil Allioui.

Photo: Ehab Lotayef. Solidarity picket with Bil’in outside Indigo in Montreal.

A protest was held in downtown Montreal in solidarity with the ongoing weekly protests in Bil’in, Palestine and to commemorate Palestinian activist Bassam Ibrahim Abou Rahme the eighteenth Palestinian killed during popular protests in Bil’in village against the Israeli apartheid wall which have occurred each week since 2005.

This protest was held in downtown Montreal at Indigo bookstore within the cross-Canada campaign launched in December 2006 to target the majority shareholders of Indigo/Chapters, Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz, who established the HESEG Foundation for Lone Soldiers, a program of financial support for former ‘lone soldiers,’ or non-Israeli mercenaries who leave their country to fight in the Israeli military.

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mettons fin à l’apartheid Israélien.

DIMANCHE 24 MAI 13h30
manifestation : Carré Norman-Bethune
Guy et De Maisonneuve
métro Guy-Concordia

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Farid Esack, The Electronic Intifada, 10 May 2009.

Photo: Israeli apartheid wall cutting into Palestine.

My dear Palestinian brothers and sisters,

I have come to your land and I have recognized shades of my own. My land was once one where some people imagined that they could build their security on the insecurity of others. They claimed that their lighter skin and European origins gave them the right to dispossess those of a darker skin who lived in the land for thousands of years. I come from a land where a group of people, the Afrikaners, were genuinely hurt by the British. The British despised them and placed many of them into concentration camps. Nearly a sixth of their population perished.

Then the Afrikaners said, “Never again!” And they meant that never again will harm come unto them with no regard to how their own humanity was tied to that of others. In their hurt they developed an understanding of being God’s chosen people destined to inhabit a Promised Land. And thus they occupied the land, other people’s land, and they built their security on the insecurity of black people. Later they united with the children of their former enemies — now called “the English.” The new allies, known simply as “whites,” pitted themselves against the blacks who were forced to pay the terrible price of dispossession, exploitation and marginalization as a result of a combination of white racism, Afrikaner fears and ideas of chosen-ness. And, of course, there was the ancient crime of simple greed.

I come from apartheid South Africa.

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