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August 29, 2008 CJN - Brand Israel set to launch in Toronto The Israeli consulate in Toronto is gearing up for 10-month branding campaign and its consul general, Amir Gissin, couldn’t be more pleased... Redress - Israeli PR fails the “decent, honest and truthful” test It’s a mistake to think you can turn around a poor brand by throwing more PR at it. You have to improve the product. In Israel’s case they’ll have to cut out the crime and racism, hand back what they have stolen, scrupulously observe international law and UN Charter obligations, and show contrition for past sins. Only then will it be possible to begin turning Israel into an acceptable and marketable entity with a fine reputation for justice and good neighbourliness, which surely is what most people wish to see. August 28, 2008 Haaretz - Despite truce, still no sign of school supplies in Gaza Anwar al-Qazaz, 41, sent his eldest son to the market last weekend to buy school supplies for next year for his younger sisters. "He returned home with his sisters and told me there was nothing. No pens and pencils, no notebooks, and no school uniforms," he told Haaretz yesterday. August 17, 2008 Jerusalem Post - Israel battles Spanish arrest warrants [An arrest warrant has been issued for Major General (Res.) Doron Almog, who is a board member of the Canadian "charity" HESEG which was established by Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz, the majority shareholders of Chapter, Indigo, Coles Books and Smithbooks - SUPPORT THE CHAPTERS BOYCOTT. ] Israel is battling hard to overturn a Spanish court's decision to issue arrest warrants against six current and former politicians and senior military officials, a source in the Attorney-General's Office told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Late last month, Audiencia Nacional, the National Court of Spain (the highest Spanish judicial council), issued arrest warrants against the six - Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Doron Almog.... Weis - The Siege of Gaza: Israel Uses Hitler's Methods Against Palestinians The following is the text of a talk by Socialist Voice Contributing Editor Suzanne Weiss to a joint meeting of Muslim and Jewish supporters of Palestinian rights at the Taric Islamic Centre in Toronto, on June 14, 2008. This inspiring meeting seeks to reach out to Jewish and Muslim communities, to build understanding of the conflict in the Middle East. Last month my companion and I entered Gaza at the Erez crossing through a modern building reminiscent of an airport terminal. After questioning by the Israeli border police, we left the building and had a kilometre walk to pick up transportation. It was as if we had travelled to another planet. The sandy track is surrounded by the blown-up remnants of Gaza's former industrial district. Rubble stretching for hundreds of metres lines the route.
August 12, 2008 Canadian DImension - Rae flip-flops over Israel on Parliament OTTAWA, ON- Aug 6th, 2008- what began as a fairly balanced description of the historical record of the creation of Israel in Palestine, quickly became yet another bipartisan speech of the Liberal party. Strongly criticizing Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party's actions in regard to Israel/Palestine, Liberal Party External Affairs critic Bob Rae failed to provide any concrete actions his own party intends to take. August 9, 2008 Countercurrents - Refugees In And From Arab Lands By Bahija Réghaï In the last few months, Irwin Cotler has had a number of commentaries - in Israeli as well as in North American newspapers - about Jewish refugees from the Arab World and has appeared in various fora speaking on the same issue, alongside the US-based coalition Justice for Jews from Arab
Countries. He consistently tries to merge two issues into one: Palestinian refugees, recognized under a special regime – UNRWA - and Jewish refugees from Arab states who come, like all other refugees, under the High Commission for Refugees. August 5, 2008 CJN - Canadian university presidents visit Jewish state [A 2007 Democracy Watch report indicates that even small gifts have an undue influence on the recipient. Imagine what expensive sponsored travel to Israel garners to the trip sponsors like the CJC and the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA)]. Cotler, working with a group of international human rights activists, lawyers and parliamentarians – including David Matas, senior legal counsel of B’nai Brith Canada – has prepared an application to the Security Council for severe sanctions against Iran, a state party to the Genocide Convention. They seek the arrest of Ahmadinejad for crimes against humanity, economic embargos and retributions against financial institutions that provide funds for atomic weapons. [Irwin Cotler is the Liberal Human Rights critic but he seems to have his own independent foreigh policy initiatives when it comes to the Middle East - the main one right now is beating the drums of war with Iran.]
August 3, 2008 PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) DEFEATS CONSULATE; MOVES VIGIL Worn down by seven and a half years of weekly protests, the ‘apartheid consulate’ quietly slipped out of the CIBC office tower last week. Officially closed for now, it will eventually reopen in a new location that is less central, less visible to the public and ‘not as convenient for demonstrators’. August 1, 2008 Montreal Mirror - Land grabs and lawsuits:
A Palestinian village sues two Montreal-based companies over the construction
of a West Bank settlement
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