Communique de Presse-Journée Mondiale pour le BDS

En parallèle avec les attentats sur Jérusalem-Est, les Montréalais se rejoignent pour la journée mondiale d’action pour le boycott de l’apartheid israélien

Qui: Membres de groupes de solidarité avec la Palestine et des organismes communautaires
Quoi: Journée mondiale d’action pour la campagne de boycott de l’apartheid israélien
Quand: Mardi, 30 mars, 16h-18h
Où: Carré Philips, en face de la Baie, 585 Sainte-Catherine ouest

MONTRÉAL, 30 mars – Alors que le monde observe la grimpée des constructions illégales des colonies exclusivement juives à Jérusalem-Est et en Cisjordanie montrant une évidente impunité, le montréalais prennent les rues pour la journée mondiale d’action contre l’apartheid israélien. La protestation à Montréal aura lieu en même temps que d’autres actions similaires en Égypte, Grande Bretagne, France, Irlande, Japon, les États-Unis et bien d’autres pays et fera partie de la campagne internationale grandissante de Boycott, Désinvestissement et Sanctions, ou BDS, contre l’apartheid israélien.

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Bilan de la sixième semaine annuelle contre l’apartheid israélien

rabble.ca by Judy Rebick | March 2, 2010

Photo by Andrea Giudiceandrea. Bullet ridden wall in the Gaza Strip.

Before Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) even began members of the Ontario Legislature and the Canadian Parliament are falling all over each other to denounce it. I can’t remember another time when elected legislators formally denounced a student activity like this. Perhaps during the 1950’s when McCarthyism was rampant but that was before my time.

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Badil Resource Center 3 March 2010.

Photo: Palestinian waving flag at demonstration against occupation in West Bank.

The Israeli parliamentary Law Committee has recently approved a law proposal the (“Nakba bill”) that, if passed by the Knesset, would impose economic sanctions on the organizers of Nakba commemorations. Every year in May, Palestinians and supporters of their right of return commemorate the Nakba of 1948, which marks the single most traumatic and far-reaching event in the long and ongoing process of forced displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people by the state of Israel. Nakba commemorations are important events in Israel, where some 335,000 Palestinians, citizens of Israel, continue to be denied their right to return to their homes, lands and communities, and are forced to live as internally displaced persons within their own country.

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March 2, 2010 Link newspaper Concordia University, by Aaron Lakoff

Photo Israeli military demolishes Palestinian Labbada house in Nablus, West Bank.

The sixth annual Israeli Apartheid Week is back again in Montreal, and will be featuring events on three campuses in the city from March 4 to 11.

Every year for the last six years, many cities (43 cities participated last year) around the world join together to coordinate this week, which focuses on the growing campaign of boycotts, divestments and sanctions against the state of Israel. And this year, like every year in the past, pro-Israel apologists respond with campaigns which range from outright offensive to bizarre and puzzling.

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