If this isn't enough evidence of Israel's ethnic cleansing policy, I don't know what is. Read on..

The Israeli army is at the centre of a second controversy over the moral conduct of its soldiers in as many days.

The revelations centre on t-shirt designs made for soldiers that make light of shooting pregnant Palestinian mothers and children and include images of dead babies and destroyed mosques.

Anti-war MP George Galloway has been banned from Canada, it emerged today.

A Canadian spokesman confirmed that the Respect MP had been deemed inadmissible on national security grounds and would not be allowed into the country.

Galloway today branded the ban "idiotic" and vowed to fight the ruling with "all means" at his disposal. He is due to give a speech in Toronto on 30 March.

QPIRG serves as an umbrella organization for student-initiated
organizing for social and environmental causes. We distribute bi-weekly
discretionary funding to events and causes that could not find support
anywhere else. Our resources and support have helped incubate numerous
Working Groups, many of which have gone on to become SSMU clubs and
services that provide invaluable resources to McGill students and
community members.

Boycott promotes debate

Protest takes nonviolent approach toward preserving intellectual freedom in Israel.

David Lloyd, Ph.D.

Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper's government publicly supported Israel's brutal assault on Gaza and voted alone at the UN Human Rights Committee in defense of Israel's actions three weeks ago. Now Canada has taken over Israeli diplomacy. Literally.

In solidarity with Gaza, Venezuela expelled Israel's ambassador at the start of the bombardment and then broke off all diplomatic relations two weeks later. Israel need not worry since Ottawa plans to help out. On 29 January, The Jerusalem Post reported that "Israel's interests in Caracas will now be represented by the Canadian Embassy." This means Canada is officially Israel, at least in Venezuela.

OTTAWA, Jan. 13 /CNW Telbec/ - CUPE National would like to state its osition on the January 2, 2009 media release by CUPE Ontario announcing a lan to introduce a resolution to ban Israeli academics from Ontario niversities unless they condemn the "assault on Gaza."
As the national president of Canada's largest union, with over 580,000 embers, I can say that none of CUPE's over 2,000 chartered bodies - including UPE Ontario - have adopted such a resolution. I believe such a resolution is rong and would violate the anti-discrimination standards set out in the CUPE onstitution. I will be using my influence in any debates on such a resolution
to oppose its adoption.

Ismail Shammout died July 4.  How painful that Palestine was not there around his bed; but all he worked for our lives.

Born in Al-Lydd in 1931, Ismail Shammout had the good fortune as a youth to study with Dahoud Zalatimo.  Remarkably, at the age sixteen he persuaded his reluctant father that he could earn a living making art.  His father, even more amazingly, provided him with materials and a space to work.  It was then 1947, only one year before the Nakbe.

{mosimage}December 27, 2005 

Dear President Bush,

You recently reiterated Israel?s obligations to stop expanding settlements when you said, on October 20, 2005, following your meeting with Palestinian President Abbas: ?Israel should not undertake any activity that contravenes its road map obligations, or prejudices the final status negotiations with regard to Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem.

"Be certain that Yasser Arafat's final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that ... the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep." Those words were written by the Fatah warlord Mohammed Dahlan, whose US- and Israeli-backed forces were routed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip last month, in a 13 July 2003 letter to then Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz and published on Hamas' website on 4 July this year.