The first Israeli Apartheid Week in Winnipeg will have nearly a full week of panel discussions and cultural events, from Monday, March 8th to Friday, March 12th. MONDAY, MARCH 8th Women & Apartheid 2:00 PM – Panel Discussion 224 University…
Tag: Israel-Palestine
Interview – Jeff Halper – The Global Pacification Industry
by talkingsticktv, February 26, 2010 Interview with Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and author of Obstacles to Peace: A Re-framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and An Israeli In Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel.
Pop art and popular struggle in Palestine
Avatars protest Israeli occupation in Bil’in by Leslie Dreyer, Art Threat, March 4, 2010 Protesters against the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the West Bank barrier wall take a more theatrical approach in Bil’in. On February 12, 5 Israeli, Palestinian…
Gaza – The Cost of War
By Al Jazeera English, Jan. 20, 2010 The Cost of War examines the longer term legacy of Israel’s war on Gaza. By following characters associated with buildings that were targeted in the war, the film explores the humanitarian and economic…
Restorative Justice and the Middle East
Sandy Tolan’s Lemon Tree by Paul S. Graham, November 26, 2009 I don’t normally recommend a book before I have finished reading it, but I will this time. Sandy Tolan’s award winning book, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew…
Does Judaism equal Israel? A Jewish Theologian Speaks Out
Does Judaism equal Israel? A Jewish Theologian Speaks Out Speaker: Dr. Mark Ellis, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, Baylor University Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Two Sessions 2:30 p.m., 306 Tier Building, University of Manitoba Co-sponsored by Global…
Middle East Water War
Amnesty International, the human rights organisation, is accusing Israel of deliberately denying Palestinians fair access to water. But the Israeli government has called Amnesty’s report “preposterous,” and says Palestinians have failed to develop their own water infrastructure. Al Jazeera’s Jacky…
Norman Finkelstein on barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine
Israel & Palestine: What’s Preventing Peace? A Conversation with Norman Finkelstein Date: Saturday October 17, 2009 Time: 7:30 p.m. Place: Canadian Mennonite University, Laudamus Auditorium (North Campus), 500 Shaftesbury Blvd Presented by: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle…
Allegations that Israel used depleted uranium weapons in Gaza invasion
Lawyers: Israel uses uranium in Gaza offensive GAZA, June 11 (Xinhua) — Lawyers investigating possible war crimes by Israel in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip Thursday said the Jewish state used uranium in recent offensive on the blockaded territory. Findings indicated…
Investigating Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
Gaza Strip, April 22, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) – Siege on the Gaza Strip is still chasing Palestinians into the grave. A Palestinian man in his mid fifties died an hour ago due to inability to access needed medication and treatment.…