4th ANNUAL ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK DATES: 3RD - 10TH OF FEBRUARY 2008

Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) is proud to announce the 4th annual Israeli Apartheid Week under the banner 60 Years of Nakba: End IsraeliApartheid. It will be a week-long series of events held concurrently in Canada,the U.S, U.K, South Africa, and Palestine. In Toronto events will take place onthree campuses: University of Toronto, Ryerson University and York University. The 2008 Israeli Apartheid Week takes place on the 60th Anniversary of AlNakba; 60 years of ethnic cleansing and exile for Palestinians. For the firsttime IAW will also be occurring at universities in the West Bank. Activities vary from campus to campus, consisting of guest lectures, demonstrations, cultural events and film nights.

The aim of Israeli Apartheid Week is to push forward the analysis of Israel as an apartheid state and to bolster support for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign in accordance with the demands outlined in the July 2005 Statement: full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, an end to the occupation and colonization of the West Bank and Gaza, and the implementation of the right of return and compensation for Palestinian refugeespursuant to UN resolution 194.

Topics for the week in Toronto include: Al-Nakba and Right of Return, Israeli Apartheid policies in the West Bank, Israeli Apartheid policies against Palestinian citizens of Israel, and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. The week concludes with a founding conference of High schools Against Israeli Apartheid (HAIA) and a demonstration to protest the siege of the Gaza strip and the silencing of Palestinian activism on campuses.

Join SAIA in standing up against Israeli Apartheid!

* For further information and schedules for different cities please visit the official Apartheid Week 2008 website at: www.apartheidweek.org.

* To sponsor or endorse Israeli Apartheid Week please contact saia@riseup.net.

* To organize events as part of Apartheid Week 2008 on your campus please check the call to participate at http://www.apartheidweek.org/participate.html.

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4th ANNUAL ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK

Dates: 3RD - 9TH OF FEBRUARY 2008

Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) is proud to announce the schedule for
the 4th annual Israeli Apartheid Week being held under the banner 60 Years of
Nakba: End Israeli Apartheid. This international week, which began in Toronto
in 2005, has now spread to Palestine, South Africa, Norway, UK and many cities
across the US and Canada.  In Toronto events will take place on three campuses:
University of Toronto, Ryerson University and York University. The
international scope of this week only attests to the growing global movement
for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli Apartheid.

TORONTO ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK SCHEDULE

Monday, Feb.4th

7pm
Main Lecture: Introduction to Apartheid
** Ryerson University (Library building @350 Victoria St. Room: LIB 72)
 
Featuring:
Saron Ghebressellassie
Ryerson Student, member of SPHR-Ryerson and has organized with United Black
Students at Ryerson for around four years on several issues including Israeli
and South African apartheid.

Clayton Thomas Muller
An activist for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice of the Mathais
Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan) in Northern Manitoba.

Azmi Bishara by video from Israeli Apartheid Week in South Africa
A former Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset representing the National
Democratic Assembly party. He resigned from his leadership position after being
persecuted by the Israeli security services for supposed 'treason and
espionage'. He is now living in exile. Bishara will be speaking about the
apartheid structures of the Israeli state from his unique perspective as a
Palestinian living within Israel and as a member of a Palestinian political
party within the Israeli state.
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Tuesday, Feb. 5th

2:30pm
Panel; 60 Years of Exile
York University Room: RS 137

Featuring:
Speakers from the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and No One is Illegal
will address the significance of 60 years of Al Nakba (the Catastrophe) in
regards to the displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people, the
right of return and the ever-growing refugee population.

7pm
Main Lecture: Apartheid and the Current Context in Palestine
U of T St. George Campus Bahen Centre: 40 St.George Room: 1180

Featuring:
Toufic Haddad
Toufic was the co-editor of the Jerusalem-based journal Between the Lines. He
is also the author of a book with the same title. He will be speaking about the
current crisis in Palestine.

Khaled Mouammar 
Current President of the Canadian Arab Federation, former Immigration and
Refugee judge, and a Palestinian refugee from 1948.
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Wednesday, Feb.6th
 
10am - 6pm
CHRY Anti-Apartheid Radio (full day of programming, schedule coming soon)
York University CHRY 105.5 fm radio www.chry.fm

2:30pm
Panel: BDS Movement and Academic Boycott of Israeli Apartheid
York University Room: RS 203

Featuring:
Sandra Sarner
Member Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA)
Alan Sears
Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University

7pm
Main Lecture: Gender and Apartheid
U of T St. George Campus Bahen Centre: 40 St. George Room #: 1180

Featuring:
Audrey Huntley
Audrey is speaking on behalf of No More Silence Coalition, she is of mixed
native and settler ancestry. She is director of 'The Heart Has Its Own Memory'
and 'Go Home Baby Girl' two documentaries about disappeared Native Women in
Canada.

Rafeef Ziadah
Third generation Palestinian refugee, founding member of Coalition Against
Israeli Apartheid (CAIA).
 
Farah Miranda
Founding member of No One Is Illegal (Toronto) fighting for refugee rights and
status for all campaign.
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Thursday, Feb. 7th
 
2pm
Film Showing "Occupation 101"
Nat Taylor Cinema
North 102 Ross Building
York University

7pm
Main Lecture; Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions Movement Against Israeli
Apartheid: Lessons from South Africa
U of T St. George Campus Bahen Centre: 40 St. George Room #: 1180

Featuring:
Salim Vally
A professor currently at York University visiting from South Africa. He was
also active in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.

Katherine Nastovski
Former Co-Chair of the Canadian Union of Public Employees International
Solidarity Committee (Ontario). Member of Labour for Palestine, she played a
key role in the passing of Resolution 50.

Heather Kere
VP Education at the Ryerson Students Union. She will be speaking about academic
boycott.
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Friday, Feb.8th

7pm
Main Lecture: Nakba And the Right of Return
Ryerson University

Featuring:
Ward Churchill
Keetoowah Band Cherokee, is one of the most outspoken Indigenous activists and
scholars in North America and a leading analyst of indigenous issues. He is
former tenured Professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of American Indian
Studies at the University of Colorado, fired in retaliation for the exercise of
his First Amendment-protected speech and in violation of the doctrine of
Academic Freedom. He is also co-director of the Colorado chapter of the
American Indian Movement and vice chair of the American Indian Anti-Defamation
Council. Churchill's many books include Fantasies of the Master Race, Struggle
for the Land, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, From A Native Son, Critical
Issues in Native North America, The COINTELPRO Papers, Indians R Us?, Agents of
Repression, Since Predator Came, and A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and
Denial in the Americas. In his lectures and numerous published works, Churchill
explores the themes of genocide in the Americas, racism, historical and legal
(re)interpretation of conquest and colonization, environmental destruction of
Indian lands, government repression of political movements, literary and
cinematic criticism, and indigenist alternatives to the status quo.

Mohammad Ali Khalidi
A Palestinian Professor of Philosophy at York University. He has written and
lectured on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and the right of return. He will be
speaking about Zionism and the Palestinian refugees.

Nagi Farah
Palestinian activist and Nakba survivor

This event will include a Visual Art Display
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Saturday, Feb.9th

9am - 2pm
Highschools Against Israeli Apartheid (HAIA) Founding Conference
OISE 252 Bloor Street
*Note this conference is for high school students only*

2pm
Demonstration 'BREAK THE SILENCE: END THE SIEGE ON GAZA'
Meet at the The Israeli Consulate - 180 Bloor Street West.
We will be marching east along Bloor and south on Yonge up to Dundas Square.
Organized by Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (www.caiaweb.org)

8pm
Closing Evening Social Event
VOICES FOR PALESTINE: RESISTANCE TO RACISM AND APARTHEID
Steel Workers Hall at 25 Cecil St. (off Spadina/South of College)

Join SAIA in standing up against Israeli Apartheid!
Check www.apartheidweek.org regularly for updates and schedules for other
cities.