Location: University of Winnipeg, Room 3C14 in the Centennial Hall Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd and Howard Davidson will be initiating the discussion with introductions to the subject. We will then open the floor to questions, comments and observations so that we…
Tag: Israel-Palestine
Video: Huwaida Arraf, in Winnipeg, on the Free Gaza Movement
By Paul S. Graham March 16, 2011: Huwaida Arraf spoke at a forum in Winnipeg, Canada entitled “From Direct Action to the Freedom Flotilla: the International Solidarity Movement and the Palestinian Freedom Struggle. Arraf is co-founder of the ISM and…
Israeli Apartheid 101
By Paul S. Graham It’s Israeli Apartheid Week in Winnipeg, Canada and many other cities and towns around the world. In Winnipeg, Israeli Apartheid Week 2011 is taking place on the campuses of the University of Manitoba and the University…
Egypt: And then everything changed…
By Murray Dobbin, rabble.ca, Jan. 31, 2011 The photographs are as stunning as they are inspiring. The world is now totally focused on the democratic rebellion in Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak, the dictator who Israel relies on for its current…
Revival of a Military Option: Israel’s Covert War Against Iran Is On
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Global Research, January 26, 2011 After talks in Istanbul between Iran and the West on its nuclear program broke down on January 22, the danger of revival of a military option looms large. It may not come…
The Palestine Papers
By Gregg Carlstrom, Al Jazeera, Jan. 23, 2011 Over the last several months, Al Jazeera has been given unhindered access to the largest-ever leak of confidential documents related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are nearly 1,700 files, thousands of pages…
Gaza and Israel: Canada’s double standards
By Yves Engler, Electronic Intifada, Jan. 13, 2011 Canada’s tax system currently subsidizes Israeli settlements that Ottawa deems illegal, however, the Conservative government says there’s nothing that can be done about it. In June of last year, Guelph activist Dan…
Manitoba MLAs urged to allow free debate on Israeli apartheid
By Paul S. Graham Last April, the Manitoba Legislature debated a resolution calling on the provincial government to “denounce Israeli Apartheid Week as divisive, promoting intolerance and undermining a balanced debate of the Israeli-Palestinian question.” The resolution was never put…
Banning Israel anti-apartheid weeks at universities: a reply to David Matas, Senior Legal Counsel, B’nai Brith
By Howard S. Davidson “If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.” Ehud Barak, Israel’s Minister of Defence, February 2010 “There is no apartheid in Israel,” writes David Matas, senior legal counsel for…
Gazan youth issue manifesto to vent their anger with all sides
By Ana Carbajosa, The Observer/Guardian, Jan. 2, 2011 An anonymous group of students has created a document to express their frustration born of Hamas’s violent crackdowns on ‘western decadence’, the destruction wreaked by Israel’s attacks and the political games played…