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On January 20, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's body was found in a hotel room in Dubai. Al-Mabhouh was a Palestinian leader who was involved in actions against Israel, including the kidnapping and killing of two Israeli soldiers. So Israel had a motive, but did anyone else?
"If there are any Israeli agents here to report what I say, be sure to get it right," urged Dr. Jamal Zahalka, who was speaking at Carleton University's Israeli Apartheid Week.
Half of Israeli Jews between 15 and 18 think that Arabs should not have equal rights, 56% believe that there should be no Arabs in the Knesset and 50% of the Jewish youngsters who defined themselves as religious said they believe the "Death to Arabs" slogan is legitimate.
This month the two Bloc Québécois members of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism resigned.
Bil'in continues to be victimized by the Israeli occupation, and it recently lost a case in the Quebec courts.
When Jamal Zahalka came to Ottawa to speak at Carleton University during Israeli Apartheid Week, I went to hear him.
Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid, Yves Engler, RED and Fernwood Publishing, 2010.
"Members of the G8 can make a tangible difference in maternal and child health," declares our Prime Minister.
Well, in spite of all the deviousness and outright lies of the Tory government and then-Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon, the pressure of concerned citizens and a court order by Justice Russel Zinn prevailed.
Peter Larson wonders why Canada has a free trade treaty with Israel while Israel continues to violate international law in occupied Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank and while it continues to seize land from the Palestinians, in particular with the separation wall.
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Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of several books focussing on the Middle East including 'The Hundred Years' War On Palestine'. He explains some of the basic facts of the struggle for Palestinian independence and the creation of the Zionist project of Israel.