Israeli Apartheid Week

[JstaRebel 48]

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual international series of events held in cities and campuses across the globe. First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar. Last year’s IAW was incredibly successful with 216 cities participating. The Israeli Ministry of Public Diplomacy even dispatched “envoys” around the world in an attempt to undermine the week.

This year, Palestinians have endured another massacre on Gaza, the enlargement of settlements, and daily growing brutality by Israel. Hence our role in the international community to support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is more important than ever. This year’s IAW will highlight many faces involved in the Palestinian struggle, from the periphery and the centre, from the diaspora to diplomats, Indigenous groups in solidarity to Palestinian professors, highlighting the many levels of resistance to apartheid.

IAW 2013 will also take special care to voice the narrative of the changing regional context. Around the world, people are standing in solidarity with each other in struggles for democracy, equity, human rights and economic justice. The resolve of Palestinians as they continue their 64 year struggle against colonization, occupation and apartheid has provided inspiration for movements struggling for freedom, justice and equality around the world. Palestine, too, will be free.

The aim of IAW is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement. Countries included this year were;

Europe: February 25 - March 10

Palestine: 8-15 March

United States: March 4 - 8

Canada: March 4 - 8

South Africa: March 11 – 17

[OriZ 3,157]

Ahhhh...the fruits of the labour of a most delusional week...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4356990,00.html

[OriZ 3,157]

Some interesting reads:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4357578,00.html

http://unitedwithisrael.org/famed-egyptian-playwright-journalist-defends-peace-treaty-with-israel/

http://unitedwithisrael.org/palestinian-professor-promotes-anti-semitic-forgery/

[X Factor 1,112]

Actions speak louder than words

[JstaRebel 48]

Ahhhh...the fruits of the labour of a most delusional week...

http://www.ynetnews....4356990,00.html

AHHHH yessss.. Those wonderful polls.. The ones that no one has ever taken, or even knows anyone that has actually ever been polled.. So accurate.. Depending on what you want to have people believe is how they come out.. Especially when a president is showing up and already has a problem with a certain PM..

Thank You for sharing the "fruits of your labor"...

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[Karee 4,190]

Some interesting reads:

http://www.ynetnews....4357578,00.html

http://unitedwithisr...ty-with-israel/

http://unitedwithisr...emitic-forgery/

Cool... Unbiased sources... Not!

[Caryh 5,206]

Cool... Unbiased sources... Not!

It's not that hard to go to the source and see. It is a Gallup poll after all.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/126155/support-israel-near-record-high.aspx

[Karee 4,190]

It's not that hard to go to the source and see. It is a Gallup poll after all.

http://www.gallup.co...ecord-high.aspx

Oriz didn't post that source. He posted links from two sources that are clearly biased in favor of the Israeli govt. and their positions. It's like posting a link to gaymarraigerocks.com and saying it's an interesting read about same-sex marriage.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The government of Israel can't feed it's own people, if you believe these folks: http://www.ifcj.org

Perhaps if the IDF funneled less money to AIPAC and JDL trying to sway public opinion in the US and the rest of the world.....

[Pooky 3,786]

Oriz didn't post that source. He posted links from two sources that are clearly biased in favor of the Israeli govt. and their positions. It's like posting a link to gaymarraigerocks.com and saying it's an interesting read about same-sex marriage.

Maybe people should go back to discussing the content regardless of the source, rather than ignoring a source on the sole belief that it might be biased. That way, maybe both sides to an argument might actually gain exposure to the other side of the coin and see the whole picture.

[Karee 4,190]

Maybe people should go back to discussing the content regardless of the source, rather than ignoring a source on the sole belief that it might be biased. That way, maybe both sides to an argument might actually gain exposure to the other side of the coin and see the whole picture.

Good point. The OP is about Israeli Apartheid Week. Not about biased polls.

Edited March 17, 2013 by Karee

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Good point. The OP is about Israeli Apartheid Week. Not about biased polls.

The poll is probably accurate, hence the need for more awareness of what is happening in the Middle East. If all people in the US rely on is what they see in the media, and how non-Israelis in the region are portrayed by Hollywood, you couldn't expect them to come to any other conclusion. Step outside the US and you get a much different bias.

[Karee 4,190]

The poll is probably accurate, hence the need for more awareness of what is happening in the Middle East. If all people in the US rely on is what they see in the media, and how non-Israelis in the region are portrayed by Hollywood, you couldn't expect them to come to any other conclusion. Step outside the US and you get a much different bias.

Yeah, you're right. I know the mentality here in the U.S. Muslim bad. Israel doesn't like Muslims, therefore Israel good.

If I had a dollar for every conversation I had with people where I questioned the U.S. or their policies, and got the "If you don't like it here, move to <insert impoverished/communist/Muslim country>", I could retire and move to Iran, North Korea, or Cuba.

[Caryh 5,206]

Oriz didn't post that source. He posted links from two sources that are clearly biased in favor of the Israeli govt. and their positions. It's like posting a link to gaymarraigerocks.com and saying it's an interesting read about same-sex marriage.

Ok I guess I realized it was a Gallup poll by looking at the first. Personally, I don't think the leaders on either side want peace. At one time maybe, but not any longer. The Palestinians are just going to keep loosing ground until there's close to nothing to hold for an independent state.