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<h2><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/international-israeli-apartheid-week-2012/"><img
alt="" src="cid:part1.08060808.07020705@mynas.com"
align="right" border="2" height="279" hspace="10"
width="444"></a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wherevent.com/detail/sjp-fiu-iaw-native-america-and-palestine-indigeneity-and-settler-colonialism">Boston
events, at BU</a></h2>
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<li> Wednesday 29 February 2012: Native America and
Palestine: Indigeneity and Settler-Colonialism</li>
<li> Tuesday, 2/28: Pinkwashing- Israel's Use of LGBTQ
Rights to Perpetuate Apartheid"</li>
<li> Thursday, 3/1: "Jewish and Palestinian Experiences
with Israeli Apartheid"</li>
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The 8th annual <em>International Israeli Apartheid Week
2012</em> is scheduled to be held in over 40 cities around
the world between February-March 2012. As part of the coming
event, <strong><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bdsmovement.net/">Boycott, Disvestment
and Sanctions (BDS)</a></strong> has launched a new
video, entitled ‘<em>Israeli Apartheid Week: Call it as it
is’</em>. [ 1 1/2 min]<br>
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Watch the video at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/international-israeli-apartheid-week-2012/">http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/international-israeli-apartheid-week-2012/</a><br>
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<h2><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://apartheidweek.org/">> Find a city near
you</a></h2>
<p>“<em>Palestinians and the defenders of their rights
around the world are being effectively muzzled when they
are told their legitimate concerns are defamation, and
even hate speech. It is a bullying tactic used to avoid
dealing with a serious moral issue</em>,” Tyler Levitan,
<em>Independent Jewish Voices</em>, Ottawa Chapter,
February 6, 2012.</p>
<p>In Toronto, the event will be held from March 5-11 at the
University of Toronto, York University and Ryerson
University. The speakers will include professor Nahia Abdo
(Carlton University, Ottawa), Frank Barat from the <em>Russell
Tribunal on Palestine (London),</em> Dalit Baum,
co-founder of <strong><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.whoprofits.org/">Who Profits</a></strong> website
and Dawood Hamoudeh from <strong><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.stopthewall.org/">Stop the Wall</a></strong> campaign
in Jerusalem.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="cid:part2.06060808.04020906@mynas.com"
align="right" height="224" hspace="10" width="414">To
counter <em>Israel Apartheid Week (IAW),</em>
BluesStarPR, an affiliated member of the <em>Israel on
Campus Coalition (ICC),</em> has produced a booklet to
help Zionist activists demean Palestinians and Islamic
regime in Tehran. The booklet bore image on its cover of
Nadia Agha-Soltani, the Iranian teenage student shot by a
sniper. According to Israel Shamir, professor James Petras
and Thierry Meyssan, Nadia was a victim of CIA-Mossad-MI6
plot to discredit Dr. Ahmadinejad’s re-election victory in
June 2009. Israel Shamir put Ahmadinejad <strong><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2009/06/iran-alls-well-that-ends-well/">on
par with Castro and Chavez</a></strong>, saying:</p>
<p>“The vast majority of Iranians voted for Ahmadinejad, for
he is a modest man devoted to his people, he took care of
the poor and had kept Iran free from the imperialist
clutches. His work over the nuclear programme appears to
be wildly popular, and even his defeated opponent did not
dare to utter a single word against it. Ahmadinejad
received strong support all over the country, even in the
Azeri-populated North-West. He is also popular all over
the world as a symbol of the Third World rebellion, on a
par with Castro and Chavez. He maintains good relationship
with neighbouring Russia and China, even with the
US-occupied Iraq and Afghanistan. Ahmadinejad’s lightning
visit to Yekaterinburg to the SCO conference in the midst
of the upheaval has proved his statesmanship. In his
well-received fiery speech he never referred to the crisis
back home, and he was congratulated by his peers President
Medvedev and President Hu Jintao with his electoral
victory. His stalwart anti-Zionist stand endeared him to
the Arab neighbours of Iran, even to annoyance of Arab
rulers. His weapons saved Lebanon in 2006 from being
devoured by Israel. Sometimes he goes too far, but
otherwise, how can he find out how far he can go?”</p>
<p>Australian professor Dr. Gideon Polya, in his recent <strong><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mwcnews.net/focus/editorial/16770-iran-war.html">research
article</a></strong> after listing ten fields in which
the Islamic Republic is far better than the US and its
‘willing allies’ – appealed to all decent people around
the world to impose sanctions and boycotts against all
avoidable goods and services from apartheid Israel and US
alliance countries involved in the worsening Muslim
Genocide.</p>
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