Globe and Mail, Naomi Klein, Tuesday, September 08, 2009.

Photo: Zoriah (c). Palestinian building in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombs.

When I heard the Toronto International Film Festival was holding a celebratory “spotlight” on Tel Aviv I felt ashamed of my city. I thought immediately of Mona Al Shawa, a Palestinian women’s-rights activist I met on a recent trip to Gaza. “We had more hope during the attacks,” she told me, “at least then we believed things would change.”

Ms. Al Shawa explained that while Israeli bombs rained down last December and January, Gazans were glued to their TVs. What they saw, in addition to the carnage, was a world rising up in outrage: global protests, as many as a hundred thousand on the streets of London, a group of Jewish women in Toronto occupying the Israeli Consulate. “People called it war crimes,” Ms. Al Shawa recalled. “We felt we were not alone in the world.” If Gazans could just survive them, it seemed these horrors would be the catalyst for change.

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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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le mouvement de boycott contre Israël

JEUDI 16 AVRIL 19h00
A-M050, Pavillon Hubert-Aquin (A), UQAM
400 rue Sainte-Catherine Est
Montréal, Quebec

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Une initiative d’éducation populaire faisant suite à la proposition de soutien à la campagne internationale de boycott, désinvestissement et sanctions contre l’apartheid israélien adoptée par l’ASSÉ. L’ASSÉ a été la première association étudiante d’envergure au Canada à appuyer la campagne internationale contre l’apartheid israélien et pour l’égalité en Palestine.

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Beirut: [Yet another] blackout has descended upon Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp this night. It makes your efforts to find the Palestinian Arab Center that much more atmospheric and inspires vague hopes that perhaps you won’t miss the first minutes of Jackie Salloum’s “Slingshot Hip Hop” after all.

You find the hall’s exterior bathed in generator-driven light. The interior is dim but for the concert footage projected on a screen and reflected back upon the white plastic chair-mounted eyeballs fixed before it.

Salloum’s first feature-length film, “Slingshot” chronicles the rise of the Palestinian hip-hop scene – starting in ’48 Palestine (sometimes called “Israel”) and the other occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza.

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Photo: Active Stills. Palestinians protest against Israel’s apartheid wall in Bil’in.

Despite largely facetious denials, the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) has been carrying out a vindictive campaign against Hamas sympathisers and supporters. According to various sources, hundreds of school teachers, college students, journalists, and other professionals as well as ordinary citizens have been arrested and imprisoned on largely amorphous charges such as “constituting a threat to state security” — when the PA is neither a state nor a sovereign entity — and “violating the rule of law”.

In cities and villages throughout the West Bank, PA security agencies raided Islamic-oriented cultural and academic centres, non-governmental organisations, sports clubs as well as schools and charitable associations, closing them down and arresting members.

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regards sur Bil’in: musique et de présentations contre l’apartheid israélien.

DIMANCHE 7 SEPTEMBRE 2008
20h. 5-10$
La Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent
Montréal, Quebec

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Photo: Nilin Cisjordanie.

Bil’in, Cisjordanie: Le village de Bil’in, situé en Cisjordanie, dans les territoires occupés palestiniens, a annoncé aujourd’hui qu’il a entamé une action en justice contre deux entreprises canadiennes pour crimes de guerre. L’action a été introduite devant la Cour supérieure du Québec, qui siège à Montréal (Canada). Vous trouverez ci-joint copie intégrale de la plainte.

Les représentants de Bil’in allèguent que Green Park International Inc. et Green Mount International Inc., deux sociétés immatriculées dans la province du Québec agissant à titre d’agents pour l’État d’Israël, ont entrepris la construction illégale de résidences et autres bâtiments sur des terres sous juridiction municipale du village et procèdent à la mise en marché et à la vente de logements en copropriété à la population civile israélienne. En outre, les représentants de Bil’in prétendent dans leur plainte que ses terres ainsi que les intimés sont soumis aux règlements et obligations du droit international étant donné que la Cisjordanie est un territoire qui a été occupé à la suite d’un acte de guerre datant de 1967.

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Israel’s apartheid wall and Israeli colony Beth-Hal Homar, West Bank, Palestine

Photos from Montreal photographer and community worker Scott Weinstein, who has traveled to Palestine to work with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society as a registered nurse. This photo essay documents the contemporary realities of Israeli colonialism and occupation in the West Bank, specifically focusing on the realities of settler violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, specifically in the Palestinian city of Hebron. As documented by numerous Israeli human rights organizations, such as B’Tselem, Israeli settlers have beaten Palestinian civilians and forced many Palestinians to leave the historic city center in Hebron, traditionally an important and vibrant Palestinian market in the West Bank.

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Britain’s first Muslim minister has attacked the growing culture of hostility against Muslims in the United Kingdom, saying that many feel targeted like “the Jews of Europe”.

Shahid Malik, who was appointed as a minister in the Department for International Development (Dfid) by Gordon Brown last summer, said it has become legitimate to target Muslims in the media and society at large in a way that would be unacceptable for any other minority.

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