This statement was rejected by both the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail (as an op-ed). Please help this important statement get into broad circulation - pass it on to your networks (faculty, community, MPs, university presidents, unions etc.). You may also wish to write to the Star and Globe editorials and express your dismay that they have chosen not to publish it. Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel James Deutsch, M.D., Ph.D. Judith Deutsch, M.S.W., R.S.W. Miriam Garfinkle, M.D.
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BDS activities for March 30 are already planned in over a dozen countries around the globe. Join in these activities or organize your own. Please promote this day of action on your websites and to your mailing lists. For more information, see: http://www.bdsmovement.net/?q=node/314
The people in Palestine are mobilizing for the 32nd annual commemoration of Land Day, happening March 30. Land Day marks the date of the Palestinian demonstration that occurred in the Galilee against a wide-scale land confiscation, when Israeli forces killed 6 Palestinians, injured 96 and arrested 300.
26 March 2009 - Responding to the Call of Palestinian civil society to join the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, we are an Australian campaign focused specifically on a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, as delineated by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel:
The BDS Global Day of Action is part of the Global Week of Action against Capitalism and War from March 28 to April 4, 2009, that was launched by the Social Movements Assembly at the WSF in Belem* --- Today, the Palestinian people scattered across the globe mark Land Day, commemorating the events of 33 years ago....
GOODBYE MOTO! GOODBYE APARTHEID! Join the newly formed group New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (NYCBI) as we launch our city-wide boycott of Motorola! Monday, March 30 7:45-9:30 am Motorola's NYC Headquarters 335 Adams St., Brooklyn (A,C,F to Jay St./Borough Hall, 2,3,4,5 to Borough Hall, M,R to Court St./Borough Hall or to Lawrence St./Metro Tech) Visit: http://boycottisraelnyc.org
By Eileen Fleming [Countercurrents.org] 24 March, 2009 - The Global Week of Action; a call for BDS/Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions begins March 28th through April 4, 2009. March 30, 2009 will commemorate the 33rd annual Land Day nonviolent solidarity demonstrations and actions in Palestine and the diaspora.
Tony Karon [The National] 22 March 2009 - In one of her last acts as US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice had Nelson Mandela’s name removed from America’s terrorist watch list. Many Americans were shocked to learn that their favourite former political prisoner had ever been deemed a terrorist.
Who said nearly 50 years ago that Israel was an Apartheid State? by Ronnie Kasrils "...a colonial racist mentality which rationalised the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australasia, in Africa from Namibia to the Congo and elsewhere, most clearly has its parallels in Palestine."
“United Against Apartheid, Colonialism and Occupation - Dignity & Justice for the Palestinian People” Israel Review Conference Geneva, 18-19 April 2009 Visit: http://israelreview.bdsmovement.net Click here to register online [German below]
“United Against Apartheid, Colonialism and Occupation - Dignity & Justice for the Palestinian People” Israel Review Conference Geneva, 18-19 April 2009 Visit: http://israelreview.bdsmovement.net Click here to register online [German below]
Click here for a pdf of the original letter Text of Greyson's letter: TLVFEST / Yair Hochner Tel-Aviv Cinematheque, 2 Sprinzak St, 64738, Tel Aviv, Israel Dear Yair: