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width=488> <BR><BR>IAW TORONTO 2014 -
Program</STRONG><BR>[Please go to
http://apartheidweek.org/toronto or
facebook.com/IAWToronto for updates on venue
locations for specific
events]<BR></DIV><STRONG><BR>Tuesday March 4th,
7pm</STRONG>. <BR><STRONG>Understanding Apartheid,
and Building the Global BDS Movement: <BR>From
South Africa, Palestine to Turtle
Island</STRONG><STRONG><BR>OISE Auditorium 252
Bloor St W Toronto</STRONG><BR>The 10th
Anniversary of Israeli Apartheid Week in Toronto
will be inaugurated by Yusuf Saloojee, former ANC
Chief Representative to Canada.<BR><STRONG>Yusuf
Saloojee</STRONG>, served as the first Chief
Representative of the South African National
Congress (ANC) in Canada until 1989. Saloojee has
since served as the South African Ambassador to
several countries. Yusuf Saloojee will deliver a
keynote address that will underscore the linkages
between South African Apartheid and Israel. He
will discuss the political and symbolic importance
of why South Africans stand in solidarity with the
Palestinian people and their struggle for freedom,
justice and equality. Mr. Saloojee will also
explain why the ANC endorsed the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions call and its
International Solidarity Conference. Also, Mr.
Saloojee will touch upon the BDS work that is
taking place in South Africa.<BR><STRONG>Hind
Awwad,</STRONG> the former coordinator of the
Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC) will
discuss the principles and origins of the BDS
movement, its most recent developments in addition
to the challenges facing the movement and
prospects forward.<BR><STRONG>Chand[ni]
De-sai,</STRONG> a member of Students Against
Israeli Apartheid will provide an example of a
specific BDS campaign in Canada. In particular,
she will discuss the student divestment
campaign(s) that have grown across campuses in the
U.S. and Canada. She will explain why divestment
is necessary for students to adopt as a strategy
of challenging Israeli apartheid, and ways to
further strengthen and build the
movement<BR><BR><STRONG>Tuesday March 4th,
6:30pm<BR>Film Screening: Mars at Sunrise by
Jessica Habie</STRONG> <BR><STRONG>Bloor Hot Docs
Cinema
506 Bloor Street West, Toronto</STRONG><BR>Presented
by Cinema Politica. <BR>Co-presented by Toronto
Palestine Film Festival <BR>Mars at Sunrise tells
the story of a war waged on imagination. When
Azzadeh, a young Jewish American poet, travels to
Israel she uncovers stories of Israeli soldiers
who reflect on their military service; Palestinian
families who are displaced and wedged between
walls; and artists from both cultures who strive
to paint a picture of life surrounded by conflict.
While waiting at a checkpoint in Jenin, Azzadeh
meets Khaled (played by Ali Suliman of Paradise
Now), a Palestinian painter forced from his home
in East Jerusalem. Azzadeh accepts a ride from the
handsome stranger, whose life story she soon bears
witness to as the two come face to face with Eyal,
the young officer who once interrogated Khaled, at
the next checkpoint. The film abstractly portrays
the conflict between artists on either side of
Israel's militarized borders, and explores how a
powerful creative mind survives, and even thrives,
under pressure.<BR><BR><STRONG>Thursday March 6th,
7pm </STRONG><BR><STRONG>Resisting settler
colonial states through global solidarities and
activist campaigns</STRONG><BR><STRONG>[Location
TBA]</STRONG><BR>We will explore movements and
campaigns that resist settler colonialism, both in
Canada and in Israel, and the possibilities for
links of solidarity to be built across these
struggles. We will focus on indigenous resistance
to tar sands pipelines, and Boycott, Divestment
and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns in solidarity with
the Palestinian anti-apartheid struggle, both in
Canada and in Lebanon. <STRONG><BR>Carrie
Lester</STRONG> is Indigenous to Turtle Island and
is an activist on Indigenous issues and
environmental protection. <BR><STRONG>Samah
Idriss</STRONG> is a co-founder of the Campaign to
Boycott Supporters of Israel, a co-founder of
al-Saaha Cultural Club, a lexicographer, a
literary critic who had earned his PhD from
Columbia University in 1991, and editor-in-chief
of al-Adab, a Lebanese arts and culture magazine
based in Beirut. He has 10 stories for children
(5-10 years old), and 4 novels for young adults on
the Lebanese civil war and 2 books on literary
criticism. He has translated texts for world
renowned scholar-activists including: Tariq Ali,
Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein and others.
<BR>Speaker on Soda Stream Campaign from the
Coalition against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA). CAIA
was formed in January 2006 as part of a growing,
global movement against Israeli apartheid. Our
demands are based upon a July 2005 call from over
170 Palestinian organizations in support of a
global campaign of boycotts, divestment and
sanctions (BDS). In the fall of 2013, joining a
growing international boycott of SodaStream, we
launched a campaign to get SodaStream out of Bed
Bath and Beyond stores in
Canada.<BR><BR><STRONG>Friday March 7th,
7pm</STRONG> <BR><STRONG>Homonationalism, Pink
washing and Love under the time of
Apartheid</STRONG><BR><STRONG>[Location
TBA]</STRONG><BR>In the past decade, Israel has
been rebranding itself through progressive
discourses on being the only liberal democracy in
the Middle East that protects the rights of LGBTQ
communities, defying and essentialising the entire
Middle East as backwards and a space that is
devoid of sexual liberty and progress. In doing
so, Israel is engaged in Pink washing it's war
crimes and settler colonial practices of daily
harassment, discrimination and oppression of
Palestinians.<BR>As well, Israeli violence has
extended to the most private and intimate parts of
Palestinian lives through creating laws such as
the Citizenship and Entry Law. This law denies and
prevents reunification of Palestinian families
when one partner holds Israeli citizenship (or
Jerusalem residency), and the other is a resident
of the occupied Palestinian territories. Israel
deprives these families of their civil, political,
economic and social rights. Despite these
conditions, many Palestinians continue to resist
the control over their private lives, and manage
to defy the apartheid system by meeting, falling
in love, and starting families.<BR><STRONG>Zeina
Amro</STRONG> is a member of the campaign Love
under the time of Apartheid in Palestine; she will
discuss Israel's Citizenship and Entry Law and the
resistance to this law that is being undertaken by
the Love under the Time of Apartheid
Campaign.<BR><STRONG>Natalie Kouri-Towe</STRONG>,
a member of Queers against Israeli Apartheid
Toronto, will speak about the ways in which
Homonationalism and Pink washing are used by
Israel as a way to hide its violent, and Zionist
discriminatory policies. Natalie will also speak
to the work of campaigns that are working in
opposition to homonationalism and pink
washing.<BR><BR><STRONG>Saturday March
8th</STRONG> <BR><STRONG>Rethinking the Syrian
Golan in the context of
Apartheid</STRONG><BR><STRONG>[Location
TBA]</STRONG><BR>The 1967 ethnic cleansing of
Palestinian people in the Golan turned 97 percent
of the people of the Golan into refugees, which
was a continuation of the Nakba colonial process,
in which Israel learned not to leave the
Indigenous behind but forced their movement out of
Palestine.<BR><STRONG>Bashar Tarabieh</STRONG>, a
member the Arab Academic Association for
Development of the Golan will speak to the history
of the 1967 ethnic cleansing in the Golan. Bashar
has conducted archival research to show that what
happened is indeed ethnic cleansing in Golan, and
will provide a historical context of what happened
and the ramifications of this in the contemporary
moment. As well Bashar can also talk about
investments in the Golan and the importance of
severing these
investments.<BR><BR><STRONG>Saturday March 8th,
7pm: </STRONG><STRONG>[Location TBA]<BR>Cultural
Event Evening</STRONG>: <BR><STRONG>[Location
TBA]</STRONG><BR>An evening of
performances.<BR><STRONG><BR>Monday March 10th,
7pm </STRONG><BR><STRONG>Reaching the Tipping
Point? Anti-Normalization and Academic Boycott
from South Africa, Palestine to Canada</STRONG>
<BR><STRONG>[Location TBA]</STRONG><BR>As Omar
Barghouti of PACBI has recently stated, the growth
in support for the boycott of Israeli academic
institutions has reached a "tipping point". On
April 1st 2011, The University of Johannesburg
(UJ) officially announced that it will cut ties
with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. On this
day, the BDS campaign witnessed a landmark moment
as UJ became the first institution to officially
sever relations with an Israeli university. This
boycott decision, coming from a South African
institution, was of particular significance as it
set a precedent, and started a domino boycott
effect.<BR>As well, as the boycott movement is
gaining mainstream attention, academic ties
between Canada and Israel are increasing. The
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
(AUCC) recently signed a major collaboration
document with its counterparts in Israel that
marks an intensification of normalizing ties. This
partnership agreement with the Association of
University Heads of Israel marks an
intensification of normalizing ties with Israeli
institutions on Canadian university and college
campuses. The intention of this partnership is to
coordinate, expand, regularize, and
institutionally entrench research, teaching and
other ties with Israeli
universities.<BR><STRONG>Salim Vally</STRONG> is
the director of the Centre for Education Rights
and Transformation, and associate professor at the
Faculty of Education at the University of
Johannesburg. Salim was involved in a campaign
that convinced the University of Johannesburg (UJ)
to severe its institutional ties from Ben Gurion
University. UJ was the first institution to
officially sever relations with an Israeli
university. Vally was a leading member of the
South African Students Movement in 1976/1977 and
left the country after its banning by the
erstwhile apartheid regime and after severe
repression. He returned to South Africa in 1982.
From 1985 to 1994 he was the education officer for
CCAWUSA (later SACCAWU) and was a founder member
of Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU).
Vally was an activist for Palestinian solidarity
since the days of apartheid in South Africa and
after the first democratic elections in 1994
campaigned for the boycott of Israel and with
others founded the Palestine Solidarity Committee.
In 2001, he was a leading member of social
movements and trade unions that organised the 10
000 strong march at the UN World Conference
against Racism (WCAR) which marched behind a
banner that read "Zionism is Racism" and pledged
to form the second anti-apartheid movement against
apartheid Israel. He taught at York University
between 2007-2009 and was a member of Coalition
against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) and Faculty 4
Palestine. In 2010, together with student
organisations, trade unions and academics
convinced the University of Johannesburg to break
links established during the days of apartheid
with Ben Gurion University. Vally was prevented
last year by the apartheid authorities in Israeli
from delivering a keynote address on education at
Bir Zeit University in Occupied Palestine. Salim
Vally will speak about the importance of the
academic boycott, in particular the academic
boycott work that is being done in South
Africa.<BR><STRONG>Linda Tabar,</STRONG> is a
member of faculty for Palestine. She will speak
about the significance of the academic boycott,
and will offer insights on perspectives from
Palestine.<BR><STRONG>Sue Ferguson,</STRONG> a
member from Faculty for Palestine will speak about
the ways in which Israel is normalizing its ties
with Canadian University and college campuses. She
will underscore the importance of the academic
boycott, in particular the academic boycott
campaign that Faculty for Palestine has recently
established and launched in
Canada.<BR><BR><STRONG>Tuesday March
11:</STRONG><BR><STRONG>Displacing the displaced:
Addressing Palestinian Refugees in Syria
University of Toronto Mississauga, Room
TBA</STRONG> <BR><STRONG>Tah'er al-Shali</STRONG>
is a Palestinian Syrian Filmmaker from Yarmouk
refugee camp in Damascus, Syria. He will talk
about the experience of Palestinian-Syrians and
the experience of the Yarmouk
camp.<BR><BR>Specific event details can be found
at<BR>http://apartheidweek.org/ or
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