Muscial icon Stevie Wonder will perform for a fundraiser to support the Israeli military, who recently ended their week-long bombing campaign of Gaza that killed 160 Palestinians and injured one thousand more, mostly civilians. According to Israeli news website Ynetnews, Wonder will appear at an annual gala hosted by the Friends of the Israel Defense […]
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RedBedHead: Gaza & The Not So Slow Decline Of Israel
Not alone any more: Egyptian protestors in Tahrir last year In some ways what just went down in Gaza was business as usual. Israel provoked a mini-war with Gaza killing a leading Hamas politician (who was, in fact, the chief negotiator for a long term ceasefire with Israel) after engaging
Continue readingArt Threat: Life in Gaza is no day at the beach – Beach by video artist Guli Silberstein
In this 2006 work by Israeli-born, London-based video artist Guli Silberstein, painful footage from the infamous Israeli shelling of a beach in Gaza is juxtaposed with scenes of a happy family relaxing on the sand in Tel Aviv. According to the artist, “the video work refers to the thin line between tranquillity and chaos, and […]
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Montreal Gazette Letter
Joel Lion, Israel’s Consul-General in Montreal, wrote an op-ed in the Montreal Gazette detailing the virtuous lengths Israel goes to in order to avoid civilian casualties in its unrelenting bombardment of the Gaza Strip. At the urging of Canadians for … Continue reading →
Continue readingwmtc: saturday across canada: end the siege of gaza
This Saturday, across Canada and around the world, people will gather to condemn Israel’s massacre of Gaza. The call:Stop Israel’s war on Gaza!Stop the killing. End the blockade. Free Palestine. Support BDS.In Toronto:Rally & MarchSaturday, Novembe…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the Gaza Horror
It was the bloodiest day so far in the living nightmare that is Gaza.More rockets, more bombs, more horrifying violence.First there were six ambulances, one after the other, unloading the bodies of men identified as militants, at least two of them…
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Live From Gaza
Nothing cuts through the bullshit quite like live footage.
The following comes inadvertently from a CNN interview conducted with a Palestinian in Gaza and an Israeli in Ashkelon. I will let the video speak for itself:
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Israel-Gaza conflict – Summary of Cease Fire Demands
Summary of demands: Which seem more reasonable? By Israel: – No fighting (well, you can’t attack us, but we can attack you) – We continue to cut off all your trade and travel by water and land with Israel and the rest of the world (except for through Egypt) (but
Continue readingLeDaro: It is great that Queen’s University is honouring Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter is a great man and deserves such an honour. I am a Queen’s graduate and proud of it.H/T: sol chrom
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: An Open Letter to Israeli and Palestinian Hawks
Dear Israeli hawks: What are you thinking? I realize that you consider every destructive, civilian killing, infrastructure shattering air raid you launch on the impoverished people of the Gaza Strip to be an act of self-defence against the terrorism of … Continue reading →
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Gaza: When the Horror Returns
When I watched the news tonight I felt like running down to the beach in my pyjamas, climbing the tallest sand dune, and screaming at the crescent moon.No…no…NOOOOO!!!!! Not that violence, not that horror, not Gaza. Again.Israel's aerial bombar…
Continue readingBryan Crockett: We Must Not "Unequivocally Support" Any Group
People living in the world should have the right to self-determination. This includes the Israeli people, and certainly does not exclude the Palestinian people. Both sides in this seemingly never ending conflict cite the other’s existence as their justification for war crimes. Neither side, nor the regimes assisting them, can
Continue readingwmtc: first they came for pride: city of toronto vs free speech
Last week, I blogged about the ongoing pattern of harassment and discrimination against people who express solidarity with the Palestinian people. This isn’t in the same universe as the oppression endured by Palestine every day; nonetheless, it’s a violation of our own civil liberties and rights, and raises a huge
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How Petty Can Israel Get
Last week ambitious students around the world took the SAT, or scholastic aptitude test, their ticket to a chance at a good education and a bright future. Students around the world except for Palestinian students that is. It seems the Israelis received the exams for the Palestinian kids and withheld
Continue readingwmtc: illegal detention abroad, censorship and media propaganda at home: solidarity with palestine under attack
As you may have heard, the ship The Estelle, sailing in international waters, was illegally boarded by the Israeli navy, and its occupants taken into custody. Among those being held are Jim Manley, a Canadian, and a former New Democrat MP. The Estelle is part of the Freedom Flotilla movement,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Olive Grove War Re-Ignites
How do you steal a Palestinian’s land? It usually begins by destroying his olive groves. Destroy his livelihood and then you can claim the land unoccupied and build a settlement. It’s the olive harvest on the West Bank and, true to form, Israeli settlers with the help of the Israeli
Continue readingwRanter.com: Church settlement boycott becomes interfaith train wreck
Share this: This past August, the General Council of the United Church of Canada, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, adopted a motion urging its members to boycott goods produced in West Bank settlements. The proposal was part of a larger, rather one-sided report prepared by the church’s Working Group on Israel/Palestine
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Israeli Settlements and the United Church Boycott: Three Common Distortions
*** Note: An unfinished draft version of this post mistakenly went out to e-mail and feed subscribers yesterday. Please do your best to scrub it from your memory and enjoy the updated post — as its author intended — below. Many thanks and apologies. *** After months of controversy and
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Israel, the Settlements, and the United Church: Three Common Distortions
– proposed United Church boycott of products from Israeli settlements Distortion #1: Why Israel? The world is full of tyranny and injustice. Of all the places and issues, why boycott the Middle East’s only democracy? Three assumptions are packed into this distortion: that the United Church is boycotting Israel, that
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