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Judy Haiven, Halifax : Letter to the Editor
National Post : published Thursday, March 04, 2010
Israeli Apartheid Week defended …
Re: A Festival Of Bigotry, editorial, March 2.
It’s funny. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) killed more than 1,400 Palestinians (400 children), maimed more than 5,000 and left 20,000 homeless after Israel’s 21-day siege of Gaza, last December and January. And Israel has admitted to using phosphorus shells during the Gaza operation.
In contrast, Israel Apartheid Week kills no one. It maims no one; it makes no one homeless — yet on campuses across Canada, if the Conservative government has its way, people will not be allowed to speak out and name the atrocities that Israel has committed and continues to do to the Palestinians. Apartheid is not too strong a word to label Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians. Even former prime minister Ehud Barak calls it that. I am Jewish and support the right of Canadians to have Israel Apartheid Week.
Judy Haiven, associate professor, Department of Management, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax.
IJV Halifax Rally: January 10, 2010
"At IJV-Halifax-sponsored rally January 10, Halifax postal worker Toni MacAfee reports on her adventures in Cairo as part of the Canadian delegation to the Gaza Freedom March."
Members of IJV-Halifax and Canadians, Arabs and Jews for a Just Peace leaflet shoppers at Mountain Equipment Co-operative store in Halifax on 28 November, 2009.Click here for more about our MEC campaign
For information on the MEC campaign and Source Vagabond: www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org
For information on Boycott Divestment Sanction Israel campaigns: www.caiaweb.org or www.bdsmovement.net or www.bigcampaign.org
For comprehensive lists of Israeli companies profiting from the occupation: www.whoprofits.org and www.gush-shalom.org/Boycott/boyceng.htm
