March 2010
Mark your calendars – the 6th International Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will take place across the globe from from the 1st to the 14th of March 2010!
Since it was first launched in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar. Last year, more than 40 cities around the world participated in the week’s activities, which took place in the wake of Israel’s brutal assault against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. IAW continues to grow with new cities joining this year.
IAW 2010 takes place following a year of incredible successes for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on the global level. Lectures, films, and actions will highlight some of theses successes along with the many injustices that continue to make BDS so crucial in the battle to end Israeli Apartheid. Speakers and full programme for each city will be available soon.
BNC Statement in support of Israeli Apartheid Week
If you are planning to organize IAW in your city in 2010, please contact: iawinfo@apartheidweek.org
Congratulations to Nidal El Khairy for winning the first international Israeli Apartheid Week poster competition.
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HEADS UP! the VILE Jew-hating, RACIST, anti-Semite, BEN WHITE will ‘stink-up’ the halls of Columbia tomorrow evening, Tuesday, March 2, 2010
We attended our first Fakestinian “Apartheid” in 2006. It’s disgusting. It’s racism. It’s lies ,ALL lies . AMERICA must demand an END to our colleges being used to propagandize our students with this abhorrence; these racist lies that are promoted for a week….each year…without opposition! The presence of anyone who wishes to promote the TRUTH regarding the REAL history of Israel and the Middle East…is shut-down…run out of ‘Dodge’. After all, Columbia already has a long history of being ‘in bed’ with the Fakestinians; their racist, hate-filled propaganda is promoted without question. And who is Ben White?
“Ben White is a freelance journalist and author of “Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide”. A graduate (subject: English Literature) of Cambridge University in 2005 with a “cut glass” English accent, his articles have been published frequently in the Guardian, New Statesman, Counterpunch and Electronic Intifada. His hostility to Israel is thought to come from his Christian ‘supercessionist’ beliefs (that is, the belief that the Bible contains nothing to connect the land of Israel with the Jewish people).
White writes about what he terms “Palestine/Israel” to the point of near obsession. An open supporter of the “one-state solution”, he regularly accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing, attributes the malicious slurs of colonization, racism and apartheid to Israel, (White) acts as an apologist for Islamist violence against the Jewish state, draws parallels between Nazi Germany and Zionism, has a problem with the police arresting those involved in plots to bomb synagogues, and has even gone as far as to flirt with Holocaust revisionism.”
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THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. DEMAND AN END TO THE FAKESTINIAN LIES.
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Here is the New York City Schedule of Racist Events:
New York City
They say that IAW in NYC is their fiscal sponsor, WESPAC Foundation
Schedule will be forming below:
Event: LIVE ART DISPLAY: MOCK APARTHEID WALL ON LOW PLAZA
Throughout the week, we will be displaying a *mock* Israeli Apartheid Wall in the middle of Low Plaza. On Monday, a local artist will design a mural on the wall in order to showcase the power of art as resistance, which has been utilized on the REAL Apartheid Wall throughout the West Bank.
Date/Time: Monday, March 1st – Friday, March 5th: Monday (11am-5pm), Tuesday-Thursday (12-3pm)
Location: LOW PLAZA – Columbia University
Event: Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide
Ben White, Author and Freelance Journalist
Anjali Kamat, Democracy Now!
Andrew Kadi, Activist from Adalah-NY
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 7:30pm
Location: 420 West 118th street, NY, NY 10027, Room 417 Altschul Auditorium
Sponsoring Organizations: Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (C-SJP), ASA, TURATH, ISO, CCAW, SDS, Adalah-NY, Codepink, and others
Event: Occupation and Resistance from Palestine to Turtle Island
An evening of stories, video, music, discussion, and strategizing with 7th Generation Indigenous Visionaries –Students from Haskell Indian Nations University recently returned from Palestine
Date/Time: Wednesday March 3, 7-9 PM
Location: American Indian Community House, 11 Broadway, 2nd floor, 5 train to Bowling Green/R to Whitehall/1 to South Ferry
Sponsoring Organizations: Palestine Education Project and American Indian Community House
Event: The Indigenous Struggle: A Call for the Boycott of Israel
A panel discussion on indigenous connections between Palestinians, South Africans, and Native Americans, and their joint call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions [BDS] against Israel.
Featuring a member of the Indigenous Delegation to Palestine, Zackie Achmat, a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist, and Nada Khader, the director of WESPAC.
Date/Time: Thursday, March 4th at 7:00PM
Location: New York Univeristy, Kimmel Center Room 802, 60 Washington Square South
Sponsoring Organizations: NYU Students for Justice in Palestine and Palestine Education Project
Event is free and open to the public with photo ID
Event: A MOVING PROCESSION TO PROTEST THE ANNUAL FUNDRAISING DINNER OF “THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES” (IDF)
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 from 5:00 – 7:00 P.M.
Location: We will be assembling at the corner of 53rd St. and Lexington Ave. (The Friends of IDF dinner is at Waldorf Astoria)
Sponsoring Organizations: Jews Say No!, Adalah-NY, Gaza Freedom March, Judson Church, Women In Black Union Square, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism, CODEPINK, Brooklyn For Peace, Women of a Certain Age, Center for Immigrant Families, Wespac, Middle East Crisis Response, Regeneración Childcare NYC, National Lawyers Guild—NY Chapter, Post Road, American Jews for a Just Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace, Woodstock Veterans for Peace, Activist Response Team, Israeli Committee Against House demolitions–USA, Progressive Democrats of America, NYC Anti-War Coalition. This action is also being endorsed by 2 Israeli organizations: Coalition of Women for Peace & Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian Call from Within
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STAND WITH ISRAEL!! TUESDAY, MARCH 2! THURSDAY MARCH 4! and Tuesday, March 9th! Stop the Hate! Stop the Lies .