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EU Parliament chief refuses to protest at illegal arrests by Israel

Submitted by david on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 11:26
Jerzy Buzek, the European Parliament’s president, waits several days before asking Israel to release a fellow MEP.

Global week of action against Israel's wall in the West Bank

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 19:32
Palestinians and international solidarity activists around the world call for a week of action against Israel’s illegal wall in the West Bank. Activists from 18 countries on 5 continents are participating.

Why was PA's Canada envoy forced to resign over a tweet?

Dana Olwan
Vancouver
25 October 2011
A Palestinian Authority diplomat came under fire from Canadian officials and was forced to resign because of a tweet; meanwhile Israel’s human rights abuses go unpunished by Ottowa.

Harper's undermining of UN bid goes against Canadian public opinion

Yves Engler
22 September 2011
Canada is so pro-Israel that it will vote in the United Nations against recognizing a Palestinian state on only half the land that Canadian diplomats promised Palestine sixty years ago.

VICTORY: Community radio broadcasters pass BDS motion across Canada

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Wed, 08/24/2011 - 16:43
Independent and community media makers in Canada resolve to join the BDS movement and resist “any form of cooperation, collaboration or joint projects with Israeli media institutions.”

New moves to curb criticism of Israel in US and Canada

Kristin Szremski
29 July 2011
A number of new initiatives to curtail freedom of speech by conflating opposition to Israeli crimes with anti-Semitism are underway in the United States and Canada.

51 Canadian filmmakers protest festival's normalization with Israel

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 00:53

Fifty-one Canadian filmmakers issued a letter last week to the co-chairs of the Hot Docs documentary film festival to protest its partnership with the Israeli organization CoPro Documentary Marketing Foundation. According to a press release issued today, “The funders of CoPro include the Israel Film Council, an official part of the Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Golan Heights Winery, which operates illegally in the occupied Syrian Golan heights.”

Quartet ex-envoy's investment helps Israel greenwash settlements

Ali Abunimah
6 May 2010

Former World Bank president and Middle East Quartet envoy James D. Wolfensohn is an investor in an Israeli company that is developing transport infrastructure for Jewish-only settlements built in the occupied West Bank in violation of international law, an investigation by The Electronic Intifada reveals.

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