Former US President Jimmy Carter braved a storm of controversy when he came out in 2006 with his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”. While other major figures including Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu had made the same allegation, Carter was the first major western figure to adopt that terminology. He paid dearly for it. Read more…
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Israel claims to be a democracy that shares Canadian concerns for human rights, rule of law and tolerance. But information coming out of Israel on widespread public support for torture, rape and even murder of Palestinian prisoners, makes it difficult to find any “shared values”. Read more….
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After Israel began its murderous bombing of Gaza, some Jews found a way to express both their Jewishness and their support for Palestinian human rights at the same time. See more...
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Craig Mokiber resigned from his senior position at the UN on October 30th. In a final letter to his boss, Volker Turk, High Commissioner for Human Rights, he praised the UN’s work in human rights in other conflicts, but expressed anger and frustration over its inability to offer the same protection to Palestinians. He offered a radical 10 point program on what the UN and the international community needs to do. Read more…
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On Sunday, March 20th, Independent Jewish Voices Canada launched a campaign to raise awareness of, and urge Canadian action against, Israeli apartheid against Palestinians. CTIP interviewed IJV’s Corey Balsam about the objectives of the campaign and the main activities proposed. Read more and watch the interview….
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Canada Talks Israel/Palestine 