Saturday, 30 June 2007, 13:00 – 15:00
Indigo Bookstore, NW corner of Ste. Catherine
& McGill College (McGill Metro)

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Mario Girard, La Presse, le dimanche 03 juin 2007

L’appel au boycottage des librairies Indigo-Chapters lancé il y a quelques mois a monté d’un cran hier alors que des groupes se disant contre «l’apartheid israélien» ont tenu une manifestation plus importante devant l’une de ces librairies au centre-ville de Montréal.
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BOYCOTT THE ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL! END ISRAELI APARTHEID! 

As part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israeli apartheid,
In the context of a week of action against Israeli occupation and apartheid,

PICKET & OUTDOOR FILM PROJECTION to
BOYCOTT the 2nd ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL IN MONTREAL

TUESDAY, JUNE 5th, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Cinéma du Parc
3575 avenue du Parc
Metro Place des Arts

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“END THE OCCUPATION! JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE”

Rally: Canada, Stop subsidizing Israeli Aparthed thru the Jewish National Fund
Queen Elizabeth Hotel, 900 Blvd René Levesque W.
Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 4:30pm to 6pm

Join us in a demonstration outside the JNF annual fundraiser at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. (more…)

Three actions, part of a rising global campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, are taking place in a week of action building up to an international day of action on Saturday, June 9th.

Actions organized by: Coalition against Israeli Apartheid-Montreal, Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine, Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU) and the Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation.

CALENDAR OF ACTIONS (more…)

By Will Youmans, The Arab American News, 2007-03-17

Beirut after the summer attack by Israel (Photo: Tadamon!)

Activists calling for ending financial support for Israel welcomed a victory at a university in Washington, DC. The faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University voted overwhelmingly to call on the university’s board of trustees to divest from Israel.

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By James Bowen, Ha’aretz, April 13, 2007

The apartheid wall in Palestine – modern version of the Irish Pale?

In the late 19th century, changes in Ottoman law created a new class of large landholders, including the Sursuq family from Beirut, which acquired large tracts in northern Palestine. A similar situation had long existed in Ireland, where most land was controlled by absentee landlords, many of whom lived in Britain.

The 1880s, however, initiated dynamics that led the two lands in different directions. In 1882, the first Zionist immigrants arrived in Palestine, starting a process that subsequently led to the eviction of indigenous tenant farmers, when magnates like the Sursuqs pulled the land from under their feet, selling it to the Jewish National Fund. (more…)

By Stephen Brook, Friday April 13, 2007, MediaGuardian.co.uk

The National Union of Journalists has voted at its annual meeting for a boycott of Israeli goods as part of a protest against last year’s war in Lebanon. Today’s vote was carried 66 to 54 – a result that met with gasps and a small amount of applause from the union delegates present.

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130 U.K. Physicians Call for a Boycott of the Israeli Medical Association and its expulsion from the World Medical Association.

In a letter appearing in the Guardian on April 21, 2007, prominent UK physicians have called for a boycott of the IMA and its expulsion from the WMA. The letter follows:

“…..Persistent violations of medical ethics have accompanied Israel’s occupation. The Israeli Defence Force has systematically flouted the fourth Geneva convention guaranteeing a civilian population unfettered access to medical services and immunity for medical staff. Ambulances are fired on (hundreds of cases) and their personnel killed. Desperately ill people, and newborn babies, die at checkpoints because soldiers bar the way to hospital. (more…)

Al-Haq takes the occasion of Land Day to highlight the intrinsic link between land and the exercise of the right to self-determination. Over nearly 40 years of occupation, Israel’s pervasive policies of land expropriation and confiscation, settlement construction and movement restrictions have severely damaged the access of the Palestinian people to their land in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), thereby rendering the meaningful exercise of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination all but impossible.

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