Actions and Callouts

From: Committee to Defend Academic Freedom at UC Santa Barbara.

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Dear colleagues,

UCSB has become the latest front in the war against Academic Freedom.

Support Arab railway workers in Israel in their struggle to keep their jobs! Call on Israel Railways to revise its new policy requiring army service as an employment condition!

This policy is clearly discriminatory: it disqualifies Arab workers because Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel are exempt from service in the Israeli army. The appeal was developed in cooperation with Arab railway workers who have been sacked as a result of this policy.

This appeal has been endorsed by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) and many others.

To sign petition, click here.

The Dead Sea scrolls, confiscated from East Jerusalem during Israel's 1967 military invasion and occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, are coming to Toronto. The move is part of Israel consul general Amir Gissin's official "Brand Israel" campaign that attempts to 'rebrand' apartheid Israel beyond its systematic repression of the Palestinian people.

Freedom of Expression Campaign!
Defend the right to speak, educate and organize for Palestinian solidarity and human rights!

Join us ..

Wednesday, April 15
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
The Bahen Centre, Room 1160
40 St. George Street (north of College Street)
University of Toronto

What's going on ... ?

BANNED FROM CANADA ... George Galloway's Canadian speaking tour on "Resisting war from Gaza to Kandahar"!
CUT ... funding for settlement programs and language services at Canadian Arab Federation!
REMOVED ... Israeli Apartheid Week posters at Ontario universities!

CJPME is delighted to host a panel discussion on the Gaza Health Crisis, including doctors who have visited Gaza recently:

Gaza Health Crisis - 2009
Doctors discuss health crisis
after recent visits to
Gaza and West Bank

Monday, April 06, 7:00 p.m.
Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building
Room B250
144 College Street, Toronto
Free admission.

“United Against Apartheid, Colonialism and Occupation - Dignity & Justice for the Palestinian People” Israel Review Conference Geneva, 18-19 April 2009

Visit: http://israelreview.bdsmovement.net

United Against Racism, Dignity & Justice for All - is the slogan of the United Nations' Durban Review Conference to be held in Geneva between 20 and 24 April 2009.

Dear Friends, This past November, Israeli doctor Yoram Blachar was appointed as president of the World Medical Assocation (WMA), the highest body pertaining to medical ethics in the world. As the longstanding president of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), he failed to condemn the Israeli government's policy of torture, and went as far as to defend the use of "moderate physical pressure," a euphemism for torture in Israel.

Join the CAIA contingent in this anti-war demonstration!

Demonstrate on April 4, 2009
Canada and NATO out of Afghanistan
Worldwide demonstrations during the NATO Summit

Rally & march
Saturday, April 4, 1:00pm
Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto

Apartheid isn’t kosher. This Passover, boycott Israeli wines.

Join Not In Our Name (NION): Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism in a peaceful information picket in support of the Palestinian struggle for justice in a non-violent way.

Sunday April 5
1:00-3:00
LCBO
10 Scrivener Square (Summerhill subway; near Yonge and Summerhill)

Download the picket leaflet

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Boycott the following wines:
Dalton
Margalit
Barkan
Carmel
Gush Etzion