[tadamon-l] [Montreal] PALESTINE: Solidarity in the Academy. Thursday, February 7th

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PALESTINE: Solidarity in the Academy
a panel discussion...

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Thursday, February 7th, 6:30pm
School of Community and Public Affairs
2149 Mackay, Montreal, QC
(metro Guy-Concordia)
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as part of Israeli Apartheid Week...
http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1114

Presentations from.

* Toufic Haddad: Palestinian activist and author of Between the Lines: Readings 
in Israel, the Palestinians and the U.S War Against Terror

* Ronald Cameron: president of Fédération nationale des enseignantes et 
enseignants du Québec FNEEQ

* Sophie Schoen: political organizer with L'Association pour une Solidarité 
Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ)

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BACKGROUND: Israeli Apartheid Week and
the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign

Israel is now taking its place in the global conscience, alongside other 
settler-colonial states like South Africa, as an apartheid state, and not only 
a belligerent occupying power. Prominent Palestinians, Israeli anti-Zionists, 
and South Africans have been at the forefront of efforts to expose the 
apartheid nature of the state of Israel. At the same time, an international 
campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid, as 
called for by over 170 Palestinian grassroots and civil society organizations 
in July 2005, is gaining momentum globally, day by day.

Israeli Apartheid Week promotes the strategy of boycott, divestment and 
sanctions against Israeli apartheid to support the demands of the July 2005 
grassroots appeal: full equality for Arab citizens of Israel; an end to the 
occupation and colonization of the West Bank and Gaza; and the implementation 
of the right of return and compensation for Palestinian refugees pursuant to UN 
resolution 194.

Responding to a call from the Coalition against Israeli Aparthied in Toronto, 
Tadamon is participating in Anti-Apartheid Week on the understanding of Israel 
as an apartheid state, with a commitment to the Palestinian right of return, in 
opposition to all forms of racism, and in solidarity with oppressed people 
across the globe. In North America (Turtle Island), Tadamon recognizes the 
central importance of solidarity with the indigenous people of the continent, a 
continuing anti-colonial struggle with a clear political parallel to the 
struggle against Israeli apartheid.

Join us in making 2008 a year of resistance to Israeli apartheid.
The refugees will return! Apartheid will fall!

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