Worldwide events mark ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’

[Scurrilous]

Israeli-Arab MK Zahalka to speak at ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ event in Montreal; Organizers call for sanctions against Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3362888,00.html

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"Israeli Apartheid Week” will take place for the third consecutive year starting next Monday through to Saturday.

Israeli-Arab MK Jamal Zahalka was invited to speak at one of the events marking the week in Montréal on Thursday.

“Calling the occupation apartheid isn’t an overstatement, it’s an understatement,” Zahalka told Ynet, “The Israeli occupation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are worse than apartheid.”

“Israel Apartheid Week” will be comprised of several events including lectures, informational booths, cultural events, film screenings and demonstrations held at various North American and European campuses.

Organizer’s of the events said on the week’s official website , “The past few years have seen an explosion of literature and analysis that has placed Israel alongside other settler-colonial states like South Africa, arguing that Israel is in fact an apartheid state, not just a belligerent occupying power."

[BayCityProgressive]

1. Look at me! I can kick and eat popcorn at the same time!

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[bonito]

2. Neocons our doing both our countries in

and yet they don't represent the majority of either.

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[BayCityProgressive]

4. LOL

wow. Profound.

[IndianaGreen]

5. It's a kosher version of "Amerika, right or wrong"!

We have all been exposed to the brainwashing, but some of us stopped drinking the Kool-Aide a long time ago.

[Tom Joad]

6. Nearly 10,000 posts, just like the above!

[cool user name]

8. I wonder what was said.

:shrug:

[Porcupine]

7. Back to the top. Peace through reality.

The reality is that you get no peace by shitting on your neighbors.

[Tom Joad]

9. Very important initiative. Civil society can end apartheid colonial policies of Israel,

just like it did in South Africa.
www.endtheoccupation.org

[ZacharyG]

10. Hillel usually combats this kind of propaganda

I'm thinking of helping out this year on my campus.

[calzone]

12. That reminds me of a great saying that...

.....Isreal's leaders have virtually never heeded.

"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn."

[Scurrilous]

11. The Third Annual Apartheid Week comes to New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The 3rd annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will take place in New York City from February 10-17 2007. It will be a week-long series of events organized by a coalition of different groups in the city and will feature lectures, film screenings, and cultural activities. Concurrent events are being held in Canada and the United Kingdom.

“This week of events, being held in New York for the first time, adds to the growing international chorus of opposition to Israeli apartheid that includes voices of Palestinians, Israelis, South Africans, and many others who stand for justice,” says Ryvka Bar Zohar, an organizer of the week.

The aim of IAW is to push forward the analysis of Israel as an apartheid state and to gather support for the international boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign called for by over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations in 2005. The events of the week are organized around the three demands outlined in this call: full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, an end to the occupation and colonization of the West Bank and Gaza, and the implementation of the right of return and compensation for Palestinian refugees pursuant to UN resolution 194.

“Israeli apartheid has created a system where Palestinians live either as second-class citizens in Israel, as occupied subjects in the West Bank or as refugees denied the right to return to their homes” said Ahmad Shokr, another organizer of IAW. Shokr adds that “by supporting the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign the international community can isolate the apartheid regime and work toward a future where all inhabitants of the land can live in dignity as equals.”

Below is a full schedule of events for the week. For more details please go to http://www.endisraeliapartheid.net/

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/02/09/int-apartheid-week/