- Coming this week to a town near you...
- 'Building international solidarity during Israeli Apartheid Week' [Electronic Intifada]
- 'World marks Israeli Apartheid Week' [Islam Online]
- 'Universities across the globe mark Israeli Apartheid Week' [Haaretz]
- 'Identifying Apartheid Canadian students respond to Israel's rights abuses' [The Dominion]
- Fresh back from Palestine, friend of the WOD, Jon Elmer, will be speaking in Toronto, Hamilton, and Kingston this week.
- 'Boycott committee rejects French PM's smearing of movement': "The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) is deeply disturbed by the inaccurate and inflammatory insinuations made by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon during his speech at the annual dinner of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), 3 February 2010. Mr. Fillon reportedly said: "We must remain clear-sighted about the incredible ease with which the most heinous conflations come about and are expressed. I'm thinking, for example of the scandalous movements to boycott Kosher or Israeli products. I am astounded by the silence, let alone the connivance, of certain political leaders in the face of these revolting actions." [Statement of the Palestinian BDS National Committee, via EI]
- Open letter to the Pixies, demanding that they not perform in Israel this June. [BoycottIsrael.info]
- Timed to coincide with this week's festivities, Yves Engler is launching his new book, Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid. Engler also wrote a recent article for EI, 'Canada's neoconservative turn.'
- 'Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing as Diversion' [Dissident Voice]
From the pro-Apartheid crowd:
- Michael "I won't lose any sleep over Israel's indiscriminate bombing of Lebanon" Ignatieff "condemns" Israeli Apartheid Week [Liberal Party Ministry of Propaganda]
- Rabble provides a sane rejoinder to Ignatieff, whose foot appears to be permanently lodged in his mouth:
"[S]pecial thanks to our blogger Derrick O'Keefe for reminding us of
how slippery Iggy's tongue is by locating this piece of op-ed
journalism by Ignatieff.: "When I looked down at the West Bank, at the settlements like
Crusader forts occupying the high ground, at the Israeli security
cordon along the Jordan river closing off the Palestinian lands from
Jordan, I knew I was not looking down at a state or the beginnings of
one, but at a Bantustan, one of those pseudo-states created in the
dying years of apartheid to keep the African population under control." [Rabble's 'Ignatieff's hypocritical condemnation of Israeli Apartheid Week']
- "Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), which begins today on many university campuses, is an odious and bigoted annual ritual. While organizers bill it as an exercise in “Palestine solidarity,” it typically features rabid expressions of hatred against [apartheid]." [National Post]
- 'MPPs decry linking Israel to `apartheid'' [Toronto Star, praise from ShalomLife, and other pro-apartheid lobbyists] - Rebuttal to the above:
'Ontario MPPs Ignore International Denunciations of Israeli Apartheid': "Realizing that public dissent and discourse in the face of continued infringements of human dignity and blatant violations of international law cannot be muted easily, the argument is now that there is no issue with debating the Israel-Palestine conflict, instead, “the problem is the name Israeli Apartheid Week.” The concern lies with the mere use of the word ‘apartheid’ to describe the Israeli system of occupation, expulsion, exclusion and exploitation. So, what is the issue with the term ‘apartheid’? Ontario MPPs seem to argue that the term has an expiration date... [More at The Bullet]
- 'The dark side of Israeli Apartheid Week' [Montreal Gazette]
- 'Ottawa universities to host 'Israel Apartheid Week'' [CBC]