photos from World Education Forum by Wolf Bonpiedbonoeil

Photo: World Education Forum solidarity demonstration at global forum in Ramallah.

Photographs documenting the World Education Forum in Palestine currently taking place in Palestine. Thousands have gathered from around the world to join the World Education Forum and are participating in hundreds of workshops, cultural events and meetings to promote quality accessible education globally, while highlighting specifically the struggle of Palestinians to access education in the face of Israeli apartheid. The World Education Forum, initiated via the World Social Forum process, takes place in occupied Palestine as the international movement for boycott, divestment & sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid grows.

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Open letter, 18 August 2010

Photo: Protesters hold Palestinian and Turkish flags during a rally to denouncing Israel’s attack on an aid ship bound for Gaza in New York, Tuesday, June 1, 2010.

The following open letter to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister of Turkey, was issued by various Palestinian organizations on 17 August 2010:

Dear Mr. Prime Minister We are writing to you from under a brutal, hermetic siege now entering its fourth year to express our outrage against the nomination of the notorious former president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe Velez to the Panel of Inquiry into the 31 May 2010 Israeli brutal attack on the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza.

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guardian.co.uk by Ben White, Tuesday 17 August 2010

Photo Beduoin Camp, Dead Sea Valley, Jordan.

The Jordan Valley, stretching all the way down the West Bank’s eastern side, is a microcosm of Israel’s discriminatory policies of colonisation and displacement. For 40 years, settlements have been established, military no-go areas declared, and Palestinians’ freedom of movement restricted. There are now 27 colonies in the Jordan Valley – most of them had been established by the late 1970s under Labour governments. There are also nine “unauthorised” outposts. In the 1990s, the size of territory afforded to the settlements increased by 45%.

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José Antonio Gutiérrez and David Landy, Electronic Intifada, 6 August 2010

Photo Upside Down World Yankees get out of Colombia and the World

At the beginning of this month the Israeli government announced it would cooperate with one out of two international UN-sponsored investigation commissions into the 31 May Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre, a move which UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon claimed was “unprecedented.” However, the details of this commission and who will take part in it — particularly the notorious outgoing president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez — cast doubt over its impartiality.

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Sonja Karkar, Electronic Intifada 9 July 2010

Photo Palestine solidarity vigil.

It is five years since Palestinian civil society first made the call for a global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against the apartheid state of Israel. At the time, introducing such action in Australia seemed impossible when the public barely knew anything about the Palestinian struggle for justice and freedom. Education had to be a priority if there was to be any overturning of the long-accepted and indulged Zionist narrative.

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Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem, guardian.co.uk Thursday 1 July 2010

Photo Dome of the Rock at Al Aqsa mosque compound under open sky in Palestine.

A 29-year-old lawyer from Gaza has launched a legal challenge against Israel’s refusal to allow her to travel to the West Bank to study human rights and democracy.

Fatima Sharif must register for her masters degree at Birzeit University near Ramallah in two weeks’ time or she will lose her place.

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Monday, June 21 6:30pm
First floor
The School of Community and Public Affairs
2149 MacKay
Between Maisonneuve and Sherbrooke
Metro Guy-Concordia, bus 165 or 24

All those interested in getting involved in the movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid and for Palestinian human rights are welcome to attend an open meeting of Tadamon!

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Photos from ActiveStills documenting Israeli protests against Gaza flotilla massacre.

Photo: ActiveStills Israeli activists protest beneath the nighttime skyline in Tel Aviv.

Photos documenting Israeli activists protesting the Israeli military massacre on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in Tel Aviv. In response to the nighttime commando raid on the humanitarian ships bringing aid to the besieged Gaza Strip grassroots activists inside Israel have held multiple street protests to protest the war crimes committed by the Israeli military in the Mediterranean.

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Friday, 7 May 2010 Independent by Ben Lynfield

Photo: ISM Rachel Corrie standing in front of Israeli bulldozer March 2003, Gaza

Seven years after the American activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, evidence has emerged which appears to implicate Israel’s Gaza commander at the time, in an attempt to obstruct the official investigation into her death.

The alleged intervention of Major-General Doron Almog, then head of Israel’s southern command, is documented in testimony taken by Israeli military police a day after Ms Corrie was killed on March 16, 2003. The hand written affidavit, seen by The Independent, was submitted as evidence during a civil law suit being pursued by the Corrie family against the state of Israel.

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Commemoration of the 62nd Anniversary of the Nakba in Montreal

Sunday May 16, 2010, 12h-16h
Lafontaine Park
avenues Lafontaine and Rachel east
vicinity of north-west corner of the park
metro Mont-Royal or Sherbrooke

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