report prepared by Coalition pour la justice en Palestine UQAM, April 2011.

Photo: Tyseer Barakat, Palestinian artist.

Download report by the UQÀM Coalition pour la justice on Palestine PDF format

On March 30th, Palestinian Land Day, Emanuel Navon presented at UQAM. Resident of a West Bank settlement (Efrat), part-time professor in Tel Aviv, Navon is also associate researcher at Ariel University, the target of a major boycott initiated by Israeli academics due to the fact that the institution was built in an illegal Israeli settlement, deemed illegal under the Geneva Conventions.

Emmanuel Navon also works as a consultant for the Israeli military and is a registered candidate for the right-wing Israeli political party, Likud. Additionally Navon is a lobbyist for the Israeli government, currently lead-by Likud, which announced Navon’s talk on the Montreal Israeli consulate website.

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on the eve of Syrian Independence Day …

candlelight vigil in honour of those killed in the peaceful protests
in Syria for democracy, freedom and dignity in Syria and everywhere!

Friday, April 15th 18h-20h
corner of Peel and Réné Lévèsque
Montreal, Quebec
bring your own candles

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A critical discussion on recent uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East

Wednesday, April 27th, 19h
Bistro Araucaria
5607 Avenue du Parc
(corner St-Viateur, bus #80)
Montreal, Quebec
facebook event

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Israeli Apartheid Week 2011 ends as another success in Montreal!

Photo: Painting on Israeli apartheid wall.

The annual Israeli Apartheid Week ran from March 8 to 15th in Montreal, and organizers are happy to announce that once again it was a huge success! Hundreds of people attended a wide range of events at McGill, Concordia, UQAM, and other cultural venues around the city. Some of the highlights included the keynote lecture at McGill from author Ali Abunimah, and the closing panel at Concordia entitled “Decolonization Begins At Home” featuring three powerful aboriginal activists. Many students left the events eager to find out more about getting involved in Palestine solidarity work.

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photography via Omar.

Photo: Omar. IamBlackGirl & Meryem Saci perform for Palestine in Montreal.

Photography via Omar from the fifteenth edition of Artists Against Apartheid in Montreal within Israeli Apartheid Week 2011, featuring groundbreaking Montreal poets, hip-hop artists, musicians and artists. An inspiring concert series occurring in Montreal within the context of the growing international solidarity movement with Palestine and for a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli government.

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Palestine bloc @ protest against Canada military role in Libya via Échec à la guerre

Saturday April 9th 12h30
corner Président-Kennedy & Bleury
metro Place-des-Arts
Montreal, Quebec

bring your Palestinian flags, solidarity banners & signs !

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Tadamon letter: Hudson’s Bay Company/Canada Israel Committee AHAVA release

Photo: Israeli apartheid wall cutting through Palestinian territories.

Bonnie Brooks
President and CEO, the Bay
Hudson’s Bay Company
hbc.communications@hbc.com
11 March 2011

Dear Ms. Brooks,

The purpose of this letter is to take issue with the content of a statement that you issued on 13 January 2011 referring to the decision of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) to withdraw AHAVA brand skincare products temporarily from its store shelves. Available documentation indicates that the statement was “jointly issued” by you, the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and the Canada Israel Committee (CIC). [1]

We are a grassroots collective based in Montreal working to advance social justice and improved conditions (economic, social, political) for the peoples of the Middle East. We give particular attention to the condition of Palestinians living in Israel/Palestine. In supporting Palestinians in their struggle for liberation and justice, we also support the call from Palestinian civil society organizations to advance a strategy of boycott, divestment and sanctions against the state of Israel until it complies with international law. We take issue with your “jointly issued” statement because it indicates that on the matter in question – the sale of AHAVA brand products at Bay stores – HBC chose to act with disregard for international law and principles of human rights. Further, in openly aligning itself with two organizations that engage in political advocacy in the interests of Israel, HBC is being blatantly one-sided on the Palestine-Israel question and, troublingly, choosing the side of apologetics for apartheid. We urge HBC to issue a retraction.

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evening of spoken-word & poetry during Israeli Apartheid Week 2011 in Montreal.

Sunday March 13th, 2011
doors 20h, $8-10
O Patro Vys
356 Mont-Royal east
(métro Mount Royal)
Montreal, Quebec
facebook event page

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press release Montreal, March 3, 2011

Photo Palestinian girl plays under Palestinian flag in protest against Israeli occupation.

Montreal will join over 50 other cities around the world in kicking off the 7th annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), which runs from March 8th until March 15th, 2011. Events will be taking place at UQAM, Concordia, and McGill universities, as well as other locations. This year, organizers of this international week of events are celebrating the inspiring revolutions happening throughout the Arab world as a sign that justice may be within reach, even for the Palestinians.

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Montreal daily picket outside Egyptian Consulate.

February 2 | 3 | 4
5pm – 6pm
Egyptian Consulate
1000 rue De La Gauchetiere O.
(metro Bonaventure)
Montreal, Quebec

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