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 On the 30th Anniversary of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights presents:
Israeli Apartheid Week 2006
To find out more about schedule of events, read more.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13 2006
7pm @ Concordia University, Samuel Bronfman Building, 1590 Dr. Penfield Ave. (corner of Cote-des-Neiges & Dr. Penfield Avenue)
?The Intifada, the Unilateral Israeli Disengagement from Gaza, the Hamas Victory and Beyond: A Political Lecture and Slideshow on Israel?s tactics of Colonial Control?.
Featuring:
TOUFIC HADDAD - Toufic the co-founder of ?Between the Lines? magazine and was featured in the film, ?Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land? In August 2005 he worked on the Palestinian Task Force overseeing the Unilateral Israeli evacuation from the Gaza Strip.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 2006
7pm @ McGill University, Leacock Building Room 26, 855 Sherbrooke W.
?Apartheid: Canada, South Africa and Israel, Making the Links?
Featuring:
KAHENTINETHA HORN - Kahentinetha Horn is an elder from Kahnawake of Mohawk Territory. She teaches at Concordia University and runs Mohawk Nation News.
DR. ROZENA MAART - Dr. Rozena Maart is a writer and scholar born in District Six, Cape Town, South Africa. In 1973, her family members, along with thousands of other residents were forcibly removed from District Six, as a result of the South African government's Forced Removal Act.
LINDA TABAR - Linda Tabar is a PhD candidate at the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London. She is a Palestinian-Canadian and author of the book ?The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs.?
HAZEM JAMJOUM ? Hazem Jamjoum is a member of Al-Awda Toronto: The Palestine Right of Return Group; Sumoud political prisoners solidarity group; and the Arab Students' Collective at the University of Toronto.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 2006
7pm @ Concordia University, Samuel Bronfman Building, 1590 Dr. Penfield Ave. (corner of Cote-des-Neiges & Dr. Penfield Avenue)
?Living in Exile: Memories of the Nakba, Ethnic Cleansing, and the Right of Return?
Featuring:
DR. ISMAIL ZAYID - Dr. Ismail Zayid is a longtime activist for the Palestinian and Arab cause, born in the village of BEIT NUBA, Palestine. BEIT NUBA, together with the neighbouring villages of IMWAS {Emmaus} and YALU, were occupied and totally bulldozed and demolished, in June 1967,by Israel, on the orders of Yitzhak Rabin, an act which has been rightly described as a war crime. Today, at the site of the ruins of these villages, stands the infamy called "CANADA PARK", built by Canadian tax-deductible dollars.
DR. URI DAVIS ? Dr. Uri Davis is an Israeli scholar who describes himself as an anti-Zionist Palestinian Jew. He is author of numerous books focusing particularly on citizenship, apartheid and democracy in Israel and the Middle East. His newest book is Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the struggle within.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 2006
7pm @ McGill University, Leacock Building Room 129, 855 Sherbrooke W.
?Battling Apartheid: Non-violent Resistance in Canada?
SARITA AHOOJA- Sarita Ahooja is a Montreal-based anti-imperialist activist. Ahooja was in occupied Palestine during the Gaza Disengagement as one of many delegates working with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM.)
RON SABA - Ron Saba is the editor of the Montreal Planet Magazine, an independent media publication which covers politics, human rights and social justice issues.
REPRESENTATIVE OF CJPP ? CJPP is the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine. CJPP is an umbrella organization of 20 groups, who recently launched a Quebec campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions, demanding that Israel respect International Law.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 2006
1pm-3pm McGill College and Ste-Catherine Street.
Montreal Against the Wall! Picket Against the Israeli Apartheid Wall!
Organized and endorsed by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) and The International Solidarity Movement-Montreal (ISM).
Israeli Apartheid Week 2006 is the second annual week of action against Apartheid in Israel, and is part of a broad-based initiative, organized in conjunction with the Palestine Society at Oxford University, the Arab Student?s Collective at University of Toronto, SPHR at Universit? de Montr?al, among other university campuses across Ontario.
Endorsed by:
Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) Montreal
Montreal Planet Magazine
CKUT Community News Collective 
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