Israeli Apartheid Week.

Israeli Apartheid Week: I give up - Dawg's Blawg (Blog)
Apartheid is a totally appropriate term. But, as one commenter suggested, "slow genocide" actually captures what is happening more directly.

Indian port boycotts Israeli ships

RedBedHead: Boycott Of Israeli Ships Spreads To India
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Trade unions at India's Cochin Port, one of India's main seaports and
its fastest growing, have agreed to boycott the unloading of Israeli
ships in protest of the siege of Gaza. This follows on from boycotts at Turkish, Swedish,
Norwegian and South
African ports.
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Israel as Victim (part 2)

kirbycairo: Israel as Victim (part 2) . . .
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There will be no peace until Israel as well as Palestinians want peace.
But at the moment the Israeli state is as little interested in peace as
the most extreme factions of the Palestinians. They hide their real aims
behind an image of victim, and being considerably richer and more
influential in the powerful Western  nations, the Israelis are writing
(or should I say 'rewriting') history.

Israel as victim ...

kirbycairo: Israel as Victim . . . .
I saw the TV spot from the Canada-Israel Committee this morning and
found it deeply depressing. Only the most dishonest kind of political
spin can portray Israel as such a poor innocent victim. Here is a nation
which, with the backing of the strongest Western Countries took the
land of Palestine by force using the worst kinds of violence, (even
against Western Nations when they thought it would be useful). They have
maintained this power with billions and billions of Western dollars
which has built one of the strongest military powers in history, as well
as maintaining a nuclear arsenal against international treaties. But
worst of all they have continued for a generation to illegally build
settlements on land that is not theirs, against the will of the entire
world except for the US, and this constitutes the worst kind of
terrorism, because it is the intentional destruction of a people and a
culture.
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How the Israeli government and it's supporters are harming Israel

Rusty Idols: If you hate Israel...
"...and you pray for its destruction, you should:

    * Support the blockade of Gaza and the methods used to sustain it unreservedly and uncritically.
    * Support Netanyahu and his far right coalition of Likudniks, racist supporters of ethnic cleansing and petty grafters.
    * Denounce anyone offering even the mildest criticism as antisemites.
    * Describe those who attack foreign flagged vessels in international waters as victims when those on those vessels resist.
    * Oppose any compromise on settlements, Jerusalem or water rights.
    * Support and sustain the current government of Israel and any tactics it uses to maintain the current status quo.

If your goal is the isolation, abandonment and ultimate destruction of the state of Israel, these tactics will drastically accelerate your goals."

Israel Apartheid: Plain and Simple

The Z-Files: Israeli Apartheid: Plain and Simple
Israel is an apartheid state and that is why they are losing legitimacy - by Judy Rebick, March 2, 2010
Click the link to read the post.
Excerpt:
Before Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) even began members of the Ontario Legislature and the Canadian Parliament are falling all over each other to denounce it. I can't remember another time when elected legislators formally denounced a student activity like this. Perhaps during the 1950's when McCarthyism was rampant but that was before my time.

Last week the Ontario Legislature unanimously passed a resolution denouncing Israel Apartheid Week submitted by PC Peter Shure who said calling Israel an apartheid state was "close to hate speech." While there were only 30 MPP's in the Legislature at the time, NDP MPP Cheri di Novo was one of them and spoke in favour of the resolution. This week a Conservative MP is introducing a resolution calling IAW anti-Semitic.

Before I deal with why these unprecedented attacks are taking place, I'd like to share with you a great talk I heard last night at Ryerson from Na'eem Jeena: , a leading activist and academic from South Africa who works for Palestinian solidarity. He told us that South African apartheid had three pillars of apartheid and Israel shares all three.
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Naomi Klein on Israeli Apartheid Week

Naomi Klein speaks on Israeli Apartheid Week on Vimeo

Israeli Apartheid Week at UBC

World Report: Israeli Apartheid Week at UBC < read for more details
Israeli Apartheid Week will bring you a series of events (mentioned below) aimed at raising awareness about the reality, nature, and consequences of racist and discriminatory Israeli policies which have led to a complete disenfranchisement of the Palestinian peoples. Apart from raising awareness, one of the main objectives will be to offer suggestions on required measures to halt grave and continual violations of Palestinian human rights and to provide practical mechanisms on how best to organize and campaign against the powers and policies denying Palestinians these very basic rights.