Youth demonstrating beside the apartheid wall near Ramallah, Palestine. Photo: Aaron Lakoff

http://thelinknewspaper.ca/articles/2386

March 2, 2010 Opinions

Size doesn’t matter ...but apartheid does

The sixth annual Israeli Apartheid Week is back again in Montreal, and will be featuring events on three campuses in the city from March 4 to 11.

by Aaron Lakoff

Every year for the last six years, many cities (43 cities participated last year) around the world join together to coordinate this week, which focuses on the growing campaign of boycotts, divestments and sanctions against the state of Israel. And this year, like every year in the past, pro-Israel apologists respond with campaigns which range from outright offensive to bizarre and puzzling.

CKUT Radio: The Daily Nuisance in Israel/Palestine
New English-language independent media website launched in Jaffa
An interview with Lia Tarachansky, journalist and co-founder of TheDailyNuisance.com

-->To download or listen to this interview, visit:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/38643

CKUT Radio
Interview with Rafeef Ziadah
Palestinian spoken word artist speaks about her new CD "Hadeel"

For more information, see www.rafeefziadah.ca.

--->To download or listen to this interview, visit:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/38471

An interview with Nina Amrov, a Palestinian-Canadian and member of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), on reflections nearly one year after the Gaza massacre.

-->To download or listen to this interview, visit:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/38305

This is an op-ed I wrote for the Link, the student newspaper at Concordia. To witness the circus that is the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism, and their hearings, visit www.cpcca.ca.

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http://thelinknewspaper.ca/articles/2002

There is no ‘new’ anti-Semitism
Free speech stifled under guise of inquiry

The Link, December 1st 2009

by Aaron Lakoff

Aaron Lakoff is a communications student at Concordia University and a member of Not In Our Name Concordia, a campus-based anti-Zionist Jewish group.

The Israel/Palestine debate has been a controversial topic at Concordia in recent years. However, there is a point when discussion on a controversial issue can be used as a pretext for censorship and repression. With recent political manoeuvring within and beyond Concordia around this issue, I fear that we may be moving in that direction.

"The Bearer of Burdens" painting by Suleiman Mansour

Suleiman Mansour is one of Palestine's most renowned painters. Active in the Palestinian artist community since the 1970s, he has contributed greatly to art education and promotion in the West Bank. He is a co-founder of the Wasiti Art Center in Jerusalem, and is also a member of the “New Vision” artist group, which focuses on the use of local material in artwork.

On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba in 2008, Suleiman Mansour was interviewed at the Palestinian International Academy of Art in Ramallah about the struggles of Palestinian cultural producers over the decades, and what the significance of art is in the face of this historic milestone.

Interview by Aaron Lakoff

--->To download the audio version of this interview, visit:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/37184

Abdelkader Belaouni looks out the window of St-Gabriel's church parish. Photo by Tatiana Gomez

Wow! 3 years, 9 months, and 22 long days after Algerian refugee, and a good friend of mine, Abdelkader Belaouni, took sanctuary in St-Gabriel's church in Montreal to avoid a deportation order, he has finally won his permanent residency status and will be allowed to live out the rest of his life in Montreal!

CKUT Radio
Out Against Israeli Apartheid - Queers unite in solidarity with Palestine

-->To download this 25 minute audio report, visit:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/35038

This report feature different queer voices reflecting on struggles against Israeli apartheid today, and struggles against South African apartheid in the 1980's.

Featured in this report are:

*Natalie Kouri-Towe, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid - Toronto
http://queersagainstapartheid.org

*Leila Pourtavaf, member of Q-Team and organizer for Pervers/cite - Montreal
www.perverscite.org

*Tim McCaskell, founder of the Simon Nkoli Anti-Apartheid Committee, a queer group which fought against South African apartheid in the 1980's - Toronto
http://queersagainstapartheid.org

*Rawda Morcos, general coordinator of Aswat - Haifa, Palestine
http://www.aswatgroup.org/english/

-->To download this special half-hour broadcast, visit:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/34943

-->To download or listen to this 12 minute podcast, visit:
http://citizen.nfb.ca/autonomy-point

This 12-minute podcast explores the Autonomous Social Center (ASC) project, a dynamic initiative of activists and residents of Point St-Charles, one of Montreal's oldest working-class communities. The Autonomous Social Center was opened on May 29, 2009, and was intended to be a building squatted for a variety of different social and political uses.