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Check out our Boycott page for a small sampling of Boycott actions throughout the world. There are just too many to keep track of!
July 29, 2010 The Guardian (UK) - Ethnic cleansing in the Israeli Negev
July 24, 2010 Morgantini, who served as Vice President of the European Parliament between 2007 and 2009, today joined over 100 people from the West Bank village in their weekly Friday protest, which began after midday prayers. She was among a group of about 100 internationals supporting the peaceful demonstrators.
July 14, 2010 PNN - Presbyterian Peace Fellowship To Partner With "Jewish Ship To Gaza"
Check out the Canpalnet-Ottawa Boycott page for recent boycott and divestment initiatives.
July 4, 2010 Elizabeth May - Israel, Gaza, Antisemitism, and Common Sense: Sorting It Out
June 19, 2010 Independent Jewish Voices condemns “feeding frenzy” around NDP Member of Parliament Libby Davies.“What’s next?”asked IJV-C spokesperson Larry Haiven. “Will Canadian politicians have to take a loyalty oath to the State of Israel in order to hold office? The feeding frenzy is outrageous. Libby Davies is one the bravest and most honest politicians in Canada. She has done more for a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians than any other Canadian politician. ” Murray Dobbin - Jack Layton's Leadership Test ....The next day the interview appeared on YouTube. But in 24 hours it had gone nowhere – just 28 views. Then the most vociferous supporter of Israel in the NDP caucus, Thomas Mulcair, got wind of it and it escalated out of control. He went on a relentless campaign to punish Libby. The spin he helped create was that if Libby believed the occupation began in 1948 then she, ipso facto, believes that Israel has no right to exist. Libby has always gone to great lengths to make it clear that she supports Israel’s right to exist and the two-state solution endorsed by the NDP. But suddenly Jack Layton was in full-panic mode. He apologized to the Israeli ambassador. He hung Libby out to dry. He forced her to issue a public apology. [Yes, folks you read it right - Jack Layton apologized to the Isreali ambassador because one of his MPs had the gall to exercise her right of free speech and tell the truth.] Letter from Vancouver Rabbi to Jack Layton Libby
said that she thinks the Israeli occupation began in 1948. Well,
it did. I can introduce you to Palestinians living here in
Vancouver who were forced out of their homes at gunpoint by Jews in
1948 and their villages destroyed. That’s occupation. It
happened. Denying it doesn’t change a thing. Just look at
this map on the left here of the 1947 UN partition plan.... June 9, 2010 Letters from 4
major Canadian unions (CUPE, CUPW, PSAC and NUPGE) to Prime Minister Harper protesting the Israel
attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
June 5, 2010 Myths and Facts about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Raid 1. MYTH - The ship Mavi Marmara was owned by IHH a Turkish charity with links to terrorism Fact - First, IHH e.v has also been active in Germany, which ran a thorough investigation of all Islamic charity networks in Germany, including IHH. Despite great effort and careful research supported by Turkish government, no link to any organization that even ideologically supports forms of active resistance of any sort was found. The organization is pacifist, denying employment to any one who embraces even symbolic violence. [Source] Fact - The Israeli government was forced to remove its website's allegations about al Qaeda links when U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley admitted that the U.S. "cannot validate" any such claim, and that the Turkish humanitarian organization coordinating the ship's voyage "has not been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States." [Source] 2. MYTH - Israeli soldiers were attacked by activists Fact - The crack of an Israeli sound grenade and a hail of rubber bullets from above were supposed to disperse activists, but instead set them in motion. And when three Israeli commandos slid down ropes out of helicopters to take over the ship, a crowd set upon them. [Source - NY Times] Fact - Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range [Source - The Guardian UK]Fact - Everyone on all of the ships was completely unarmed, he said. However, on the Turkish ship -- where the civilian fatalities occurred -- some passengers clashed with the soldiers and tried to beat them up as they descended on the ship. (Larudee was on a different vessel.) "But that is akin to what the passengers on the hijacked 9/11 did to hijackers who had taken the aircraft," he said. "In other words, they resisted someone who was invading their ship." [Source - Salon, US] 3. MYTH - Israel allows all necessary aid into Gaza Fact - The World Health Organization (WHO) says Israel is blocking vital medical supplies from entering the Gaza Strip. The U.N. agency says it is impossible to maintain a well-functioning health system if necessary supplies are not available. [Source - Voice of America] 4. Irrelevant claim - Israel claims that because the stated goal of the Free Gaza Movement was to break the blockade it was not a humanitarian act. Fact - There is an exact parallel in the actions of the early lunch counter sit-ins of the U.S. civil rights movement: while the freedom workers may well have been hungry when they sat down, their goal was not to be served coffee but to end segregation. Of course the ship's voyage was a political act, repeated by the Rachel Corrie a few days later: to respond to Israel's politically-driven humanitarian catastrophe and to achieve a humanitarian goal - ending the crippling blockade of Gaza. [Source] June 2, 2010 Reports from the Canadian media - Note the bias of the reports. Be sure to check the reader comments on the CBC and Globe and Mail articles - Canadians are not foooled by the Israeli apologist spin. Article of the year so far - The following is an astounding article coming from what one would think would be a right wing publication. It is short but covers a lot of ground in a few words. Financial Times - Israel is lost at sea With
yesterday's brazen act of piracy, Israel dealt a blow to the legitimacy
of its own struggle.... Israel claims the activists had links
with extremist groups and that some attacked Israeli soldiers with
knives and sticks (and in some accounts the odd light firearm). Even if
true, this would not justify the illegal capture of civilian ships
carrying humanitarian aid in international waters, let alone the use of
deadly force. KAIROS condemns the assault and killing of people aboard the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
May 31, 2010 CAF
calls upon the Prime Minister to call for an international inquiry into
the massacre of human rights activists by Israel and for the lifting of
the siege of Gaza CPNO - Jewish group condemns
Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla CPNO - NCCAR Condemns Israeli
Attack on Gaza Aid Fleet
May 23, 2010
National Post - B'nai B'rith report on anti-Semitism debunked I last wrote about B'nai Brith in January when the organization issued a bizarre press release comparing the lack of female ski jumpers at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics to the policies of Adolf Hitler. This was part of a pattern of hysteria at BB, I noted: "Every year, B'nai Brith puts out an 'audit' of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada.
May 14, 2010 Ma'an News - Israel training to block Freedom Fleet
Israel's naval forces are allegedly in training to prepare
to seize eight boats scheduled to dock in the Gaza Strip on 24 May from Europe,
Arabic-language media reported on Wednesday....
May 10, 2010 The Freedom Flotilla Sails to Gaza in May
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EI - Defying appeal from Gaza students, Atwood set to accept Israeli prize Phillip Weiss - Not only did Atwood and Ghosh choose to accept the cash, they used the occasion to launch a diatribe against the BDS strategy. I didn’t want to publicise their screed by linking to it, but I will, because it makes our argument for us... Ghosh and Atwood imply that the boycott is self-righteous and propagandistic. Read more on the Atwood controversy here and here.
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