Category: News
CSQ latest union to take up BDS
Canada again became a focal point of the trade union BDS movement yesterday, as the third largest Québécois union â the CSQ â passed a motion in support of the Palestinian peopleâs struggle. The union had earlier spoken out, along with numerous other Québécois organizations, over Occupation forcesâ blockade and bombardment of Gaza, denouncing the […]
CAIA pickets Chapters/Indigo; challenges CEO
The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) stepped up its campaign against Chapters/Indigo bookstores on 25 June, as activists disrupted the Annual Shareholders Meeting in downtown Toronto. In addition to passing out flyers and engaging shareholders, journalists, and passersby in discussion and debate, one of the most exciting developments came from inside the shareholders meeting, when […]
Bil’in Targeted in Reprisal Attacks
Last Fridayâs protests saw a level of violence and repression that has become routine across the areas resisting the Apartheid Wall. In al-Maâsara dozens of protesters marched out towards the wall in protest at the construction of the Wall and the settlements in its shadow. They found the road to be blocked by soldiers, who […]
Two Hundred March in Toronto Pride’s “Queers Against Israeli Apartheid” Contingent
***image2***Overcoming attacks by Zionist groups like B’nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) marched in Toronto’s Pride and Dyke March held on June 29th. Leading the QuAIA contingent were several original members of the Simon Nkoli Anti-Apartheid Committee, a gay activist group that fought South African apartheid in the 1980s. […]
“Summer In The Streets” for Palestine kicks off with theater, song and dance in New York City
***image3***Twenty New York activists protested, sang and performed skits near a street fair at Greeley Square in Manhattan last Saturday, calling for a boycott of communications giant Motorola until it stops providing technology to the Occupation army and settlement project. It was the third action organized by the New York Campaign for the Boycott of […]
Ni’lin sends eyewitnesses to UN to testify about Occupation assassination policy
***image2***The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza assault that investigates violations of human rights and international law committed in the context of the Israeli assault on Gaza in December 08/January 2009 will hear as well accounts of the repression meted out in the West Bank during this period. As during any war and […]
Arms trade and occupation economics fact sheets
Two new fact sheets have been released. The first, âThe Palestinian economy â Occupation, de-development and normalisation,â gives a concise summary of Stop the Wall’s economic analysis, within which we clarify how the dominant approach to investment and development in Palestine serves to strengthen the Wall, checkpoints and military closures, creating âsustainableâ ghettos in the […]
Naomi Klein in the West Bank
Canadian author and activists Naomi Klein visited Palestine this past week for the release of the translation of her book, The Shock Doctrine. Mrs. Klein visited the village of Bil’in, where she held a press conference explaining her position on boycott. The following night, she spoke in front of pack hall in Ramallah about the […]