- Arrests underway in Toronto Israeli Consulate Sit-in
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Police have moved in to arrest a group of Jewish Canadian women who are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto. The women took their action in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
- Break the Silence Against the Siege of Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
Unstable medical supplies and lack of fuel have disrupted medical equipment such as incubators, dialysis equipment and heart monitors in Gaza. There is a shortage of many critical medications and essential medical equipment.
- B’Tselem demands a halt to baseless assault by Rights and Democracy chair
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
B’Tselem has written to demand that Board members of the Canadian organization Rights and Democracy stop maligning B'Tselem's name.
- Call from Gaza for Global Response to Killings on the Freedom Flotilla
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
We Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions and killings in Israel's attacks on the Flotilla
- Canada Has Blood On Its Hands!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
On February 9th, a day before the Israeli elections, concerned Canadians will demonstrate on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in a peaceful vigil to urge the Canadian government to challenge Israeli impunity in committing war crimes and human rights abuses.
- Canadian Health Professionals Call for Ceasefire and Ending the Siege of Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Canadian health professionals unequivocally protest against the Israeli siege and invasion of Gaza and against the Canadian Government’s support of Israel in its complicity in this massacre.
- Chomsky on MisEducation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
- Committee to Protect Journalists urges Israel to examine Gaza limits, military strikes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Committee to Protect Journalists urges Israel to examine Gaza limits, military strikes.
- Communication severed with flotilla media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders urges the Israeli authorities to release a list of the journalists who were arrested during yesterday’s raid on the humanitarian flotilla and to say where they are being held.
- Defiant Journalists Back Ethical Campaign for Palestinian Media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has concluded the launch of its programme to support ethical journalism in Palestine with a series of proposals to strengthen independent media even in the face of political difficulties.
- Education gap divides Jerusalem
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
A recent report by an Israeli non-governmental organisation says 5,000 Palestinian children in East Jerusalem will not be able to attend classes this year because there are not enough classrooms.
- Five years of illegality: Time to dismantle the Wall and respect the rights of Palestinians
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
In a report, Five years of illegality, Oxfam International presents testimonies of fifteen Palestinian men and women who recount their daily problems, arising from the construction of the Wall and its associated regime of land confiscation.
- Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
- Gaza’s civilians, still unable to rebuild one year after Operation Cast Lead, ‘betrayed’ by international community
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The international community has betrayed the people of Gaza by failing to back their words with effective action to secure the ending of the Israeli blockade which is preventing reconstruction and recovery, say a group of 16 leading organizations.
- Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
- Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes -- Independent Jewish Voices
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes.
- IFJ and the National Federation of Israeli Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Following a number of press inquiries related to the IFJ’s decision to expel the National Federation of Israeli Journalist at the last meeting of its Executive Committee (June 6/7, the IFJ is making available two documents clarifying the position
- IFJ Condemns Deportation Move against US Journalist in Israel
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists today called on Israeli authorities to revoke the deportation order served on American journalist and chief English editor of Ma'an news agency, Jared Malsin, who has been denied re-entry to the country.
- IFJ Condemns Gaza Attack and Demands International Inquiry after Reports of Media Casualties
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists today reacted with shock at the news of the brutal attacks on civilians, including journalists, by Israeli forces in the assault on a flotilla that yesterday tried to breach the military blockade of Gaza
- IFJ Defending Journalists in Palestine and Israel
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has reaffirmed its commitment to defend the interests of journalists in Palestine and Israel.
- IFJ Demands Overhaul of Repressive Media Laws in the Middle East
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Launching its ‘Breaking the Chains' annual report into press freedom violations in the Arab World and Iran, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for a radical overhaul of media laws in the Middle East.
- Independent fact-finding mission of medical experts publishes special report on the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Independent fact-finding mission of medical experts commissioned by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) published today its special report on the Israei offensive in the Gaza Strip 27.12.2008 - 18.01.2
- Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
- Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
- Israeli authorities close Palestinian media centre in East Jerusalem
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday morning's decision by the Israeli internal security ministry to shut down the Palestinian media centre that had been set up in the East Jerusalem.
- Israeli Human Rights groups: Clear and present danger to the lives and well-being of tens of thousands of civilians
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Since the beginning of the Gaza campaign a heavy suspicion has arisen of grave violations of international humanitarian law by military forces. This kind of fighting is a blatant violation of the laws of warfare and raises suspicion of war crimes.
- Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military information.
- Israeli soldiers disguised as photojournalists endanger journalists' lives, says MADA
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expresses concern over the Israeli occupation forces disguising themselves as photojournalists in the middle of Palestinian protesters.
- Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
- Jewish group condemns Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has expressed shock and outrage in response to the deaths and injuries of participants in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at the hands of the Israeli navy.
- Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
A diverse group of Jewish Canadian women are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto. This action is in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
- Jewish-Canadians Decry Canada’s Open Door to Israeli PM Netanyahu
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Independent Jewish Voices finds it abhorrent that the Canadian Government is extending a warm welcome to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Canada on May 30/31. An honest and responsible government would instead indict Mr. Netanyahu for war crimes.
- Journalists Call Israel to Account over "Premeditated and Precise" attacks on Media in Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The targeting of media by the Israeli military during last month's offensive in the Gaza Strip was "premeditated and precise" and in violation of international law, says the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
- Lack of transparency on Israel’s expulsion of US journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns suspicious circumstances surrounding Israel’s expulsion of US journalist, Jared Malsin, editor for the English service of the Palestinian press agency Ma’an.
- Letter regarding Israel's attack on Gaza and international law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Israel's attack on Gaza constitutes a war crime in that it is disproportionate to the threat posed and violates international humanitarian law on at least grounds: Collective punishment, Targeting Civilians, Disproportionate military response.
- Massacre In Gaza Black Saturday
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
UHWC asks you, to issue a strong Last Appeal Statement condemning Israel’s human rights violations against the Palestinian people and to demand a cessation of this military offensive.
- Media involved in several incidents since start of Israeli offensive against Gaza Strip
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about several incidents affecting the news media since Israel began its air strikes on the Gaza Strip on 27 December, including the bombing of the headquarters of the Hamas TV station Al-Aqsa TV, as well as Isra
- Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86th) and Lebanon (61st).
- Montrealers lay siege to Israeli Consulate: Second consecutive day of Israeli Consulate blockades in Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Second consecutive day of Israeli Consulate blockades in Canada. Early Thursday, January 8th Montrealers blockaded the Israeli Consulate in Montreal in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
- Newspaper reporter arrested as she returns to Israel from Gaza Strip
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns Israeli newspaper reporter Amira Hass’s arrest at the Erez border crossing yesterday as she returned to Israel after spending four months in the Gaza Strip reporting for the Tel Aviv-based daily Haaretz.
- Nobel Prize Nominee and Israeli Peace Activist visits Canada on 'Gaza' tour
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Jeff Halper, an Israeli human rights activist, anthropology professor, coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee is on a cross-Canada speaking tour.
- An Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Let us not be silent bystanders while humanity suffers. Let us raise our voices, as Jewish youth, and demand a single, democratic state, with equal rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine.
- Release of Al Jazeera journalists held by Israelis
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The two Al Jazeera journalists who were arrested on 30 June have been released from Ramleh prison, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
- Richard Falk, UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestinian Territories Speaking in Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Richard Falk, the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, will be speaking in Toronto next Sunday September 27th at 2pm. at 155 College St. Room 610.
- A Seasonal Greeting to the World: End the Siege of Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
A Seasonal Greeting to the World: End the Siege of Gaza. This Friday at our weekly vigil, we will mark the season with a Christmas tree decorated with barbed wire to depict the prison-like conditions the people of Gaza are enduring.
- Sources welcomes Independent Jewish Voices
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Independent Jewish Voices. ndependent Jewish Voices represents Jews in Canada from diverse backgrounds, occupations and affiliations who have in common a strong commitment to social justice and universal human rights.
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- Strip-Searching Children
Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
- The story Israel doesn't want you to know: Israeli Resistance to Israeli Apartheid
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Shachaf Polakow, a member of the Israeli group, Anarchists Against the Wall will be speaking about the work of the group who act jointly with the popular Palestinian struggles against the Wall in the West Bank.
- Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser: Silence Tastes Bad… Put Free Speech on the Menu.
Artists and supporters speak out for freedom of association at the launch of the Koffler Gallery fundraiser, ARTFUL DISH, Thursday, June 4, 10 AM.
- United Nations Joint Statement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Joint Statement of Robert Serry, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency.
- Urgent Statement by Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews Worldwide
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
It is time for leaders with a sense of morality and courage to stand up and finally declare ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
- We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
- Winners of Courage in Journalism Awards Announced
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Iryna Khalip of Belarus, Agnes Taile of Cameroon and Jila Baniyaghoob of Iran win Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Women’s Media Foundation. Amira Hass of Israel is Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
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