Tag: BDS
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Refusing Settler Colonialism, From Turtle Island to Palestine
Toronto – 15 March 2017. The keynote event of Israeli Apartheid Week 2017 focused on articulating connections between ongoing struggles against settler colonial violence and dispossession across Turtle Island (North … Watch video »
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Against the Blacklisting of Activists and Writers
The cancellation of a lecture by journalist Rania Khalek, who was invited to speak on the University of North Carolina (UNC) – Chapel Hill campus by Students for Justice in … Keep reading »
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Labour Struggles in Palestine and International Solidarity
Toronto — 8 May 2016. The global labour movement has long criticized Israel for human and trade union rights violations and abuse of Palestinian workers, while workers in Palestine are … Watch video »
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Boycotting Apartheid
Ontario’s 50 Year Long Attack on the Campaign for Palestinian Rights On December 1st, 2016, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario officially condemned the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign to end … Keep reading »
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Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine
Ilan Pappé interviewed by Alejandra Ríos Ilan Pappé is a historian, socialist activist, professor at the University of Exeter, and supporter of the Campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS). Of … Keep reading »
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Palestinian Solidarity Struggles
The state of Israel was just served notice by Black Lives Matter (BLM) in a big way. The human rights movement pummeled Israel for its decades long oppression of the … Watch video »
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Crackdown on BDS: Criminalization of Dissent?
Toronto — 26 April 2016. On February 18, 2016 Canadian parliament passed a motion condemning “any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or individuals to promote the BDS [Boycott … Watch video »
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Movement Intersections Across Palestinian, Indigenous, and Black Struggles Toronto — 8 March 2016. First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events … Watch video »
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For BDS, Against Apartheid, Free Palestine
Toward Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions at McGill Six years before the fall of the South African apartheid, an editorial by The Daily (“South Africa Love it and Leave it,” September 12, … Keep reading »
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Palestinian Popular Resistance: Building (BDS)/ Student Movement
Toronto — 12 January 2016. A new generation of Palestinians is marching on the footsteps of previous generations, rising up against Israel’s brutal, decades-old system of occupation, settler colonialism and … Watch video »
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Why is the Canadian Media Ignoring Evidence of 1948 Massacres?
The better part of a decade ago, I described the Toronto Star‘s Mitch Potter as “a canary in the mineshaft of liberal Canadian racism.” A piece on 1948 Palestine published … Keep reading »
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Palestine: A Political Travelogue
Palestine has long been central to colonial and anti-colonial imaginaries – of the Ottoman and British empires, and Zionist and Arab nationalisms, before becoming a key site of inspiration for … Watch video »