[Fdu] IAW 2017 at University of Toronto

Sun Mar 5 20:53:59 EST 2017

    *13th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week: *
    *100 YEARS OF SETTLER COLONIALISM,*
    *100 YEARS OF POPULAR STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE*
    Toronto, March 9th-17th, 2017

*The University of Toronto Graduate Student Union BDS Ad-hoc Committee 
<https://www.facebook.com/uoftdivest/>*,*Students Against Israeli 
Apartheid UofT 
<https://www.facebook.com/StudentsAgainstIsraeliApartheid/> *and The 
CUPE 3902 BDS Political Action Committee present Israeli Apartheid Week 
(IAW) 2017, March 13th - 17th.

First launched in Toronto in 2005, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) has 
grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine 
solidarity calendar. This year, IAW will take place in more than 150 
cities across the globe. The week aims to raise awareness about Israel's 
ongoing practices of apartheid, occupation, and dispossession against 
the Palestinian people. Lectures, films, and creative performances will 
build support for the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions 
(BDS) movement.

This year’s IAW will reflect on 100 years of resistance to settler 
colonialism across historic Palestine since the issuance of the Balfour 
Declaration in 1917. The Week will also link the history of Palestinian 
resistance to the struggles of the Indigenous peoples on whose 
territories we live, work, and study, and who are resisting settler 
colonial violence and dispossession. Our speakers this year will include 
Vijay Prashad, Lee Maracle, and Hind Awwad, among others.

To endorse Israeli Apartheid Week in Toronto, or to make a donation, 
contact: divest at utgsu.ca or saia.opirg.uoft at gmail.com.

For more information on IAW and events taking place in other cities 
please visit the official*IAW Website* <http://apartheidweek.org/>

    __Thursday, March 9th
    5:00-7:00pm

    _*Settler Colonialism and Legal Ordering: Israel as a "Jewish
    *__*and*__*Democratic" State*_
    _**_*Featuring: Mazen Masri*

*Location*: Room 2098, Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto, 100 St. 
George St.
*Facebook event*: www.facebook.com/events/1857254031219605
*Organized by* the University of Toronto Middle East History and Theory 
Workshop and the UTGSU BDS Ad-Hoc Committee.

*Details*: The claim that Israel is at once a Jewish and democratic 
state effectively translates into policies and practices that limit the 
rights of Palestinians in Israel. In this lecture, Mazen Masri, Senior 
Lecturer in Law at City University London, will focus on the existing 
constitutional definition of the state as "Jewish and democratic" to 
explore how a range of actors, including the courts, state institutions, 
politicians, and scholars, use this definition to justify, and at times 
consolidate and extend, Israel's project of settler colonialism and 
ethnic cleansing.

    Tuesday, March 14th 
    7:00-10:00pm

    _*Palestine's Right to Education: The Politics of the Academic Boycott*_
    *Featuring: Vijay Prashad*

*Location*: Room 2017, Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto, 100 St. 
George St.
*Facebook event*: www.facebook.com/events/295659570851250/
*Organized by *Students Against Israeli Apartheid and Faculty for Palestine.

*Details: *The call for an academic boycott of complicit Israeli 
academic institutions is a call for universities, academic associations, 
and student governments and unions to refuse to be complicit in and 
normalize Israel’s war crimes, ongoing occupation, oppression and 
apartheid. In this lecture, Vijay Prashad, Professor of South Asian 
History and International Studies at Trinity College, will speak to the 
case for the academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions that are 
complicit in such crimes.

    Wednesday, March 15th
    6:30-9:00pm

    _*Unsettling Histories: Refusing Settler Colonialism, From Turtle
    Island to Palestine*_
    *Featuring: Lee Maracle, Hind Awwad, and Erica Violet Lee*

*Location*: Room 205, Claude Bissell Building, University of Toronto, 
140 St. George St.
*Facebook event*: www.facebook.com/events/154902601692071/
*Organized by* the UTGSU BDS Ad-Hoc Committee and the CUPE 3902 BDS 
Committee

*Details*: This keynote panel — featuring Lee Maracle, Hind Awwad, and 
Erica Violet Lee — will focus on articulating connections between 
ongoing struggles against settler colonial violence and dispossession 
across Turtle Island (North America) and in historic Palestine. The 
panelists will reflect on the history and current state of these 
anti-colonial struggles.

    _Thursday, March 16th
    _7:00-9:00pm

    *_Film Screening and Discussion_*

*Location*: Room 204, Rogers Communication Centre, Ryerson University, 
80 Gould St.
*Organized by *the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and Students for 
Justice in Palestine at Ryerson University.
*Facebook event*: https://www.facebook.com/events/442805949395489/

Details: Check back here for more details

    _Friday,
    March 17th_
    7:00-10:00pm

    __*Right to Rebel: A Celebration of Cultural Resistance*__

*Location*: Room 102, Mechanical Engineering Building, University of 
Toronto, 5 King's College Circle
*Facebook event*: www.facebook.com/events/1177073205744751/
*Organized by* Students Against Israeli Apartheid.

*Details*: To wrap up the week, we will be hosting artists and 
performers to celebrate the use of art as a means of anti-colonial and 
anti-imperialist resistance. We will be hosting Wafa Ghnaim who will be 
presenting traditional Palestinian embroidery designs from her recently 
published digital book, "Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery  and Storytelling in 
the Palestinian Diaspora."

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