by Mairav Zonszein
Tel Aviv - Last summer, a group of prominent Israeli actors and artists signed a letter declaring their refusal to perform in the newly built cultural centre in Ariel, the largest Jewish settlement situated deep in the West Bank. The letter ignited a debate in Israel about the right to publicly express and act on their opposition to the settlement project and continued occupation of the territories seized in the 1967 war.
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by Moriel Rothman
Middlebury, Vermont - The sun of the two-state solution is setting. The window for the only solution I believe has any chance of bringing about meaningful, sustainable peace for Israelis and Palestinians is closing, and with it Israel’s future as a Jewish, democratic homeland.
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by Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, son of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
Perhaps I am not in a position to write a letter to 27 European and Western countries, but what can I do? I have no other hope but you, dear ones. I have no more tears to shed. The only thing I have left is a lump in my throat. I only hope that God helps me in writing this letter. I have lost my father, and now this government wants to take our mother from me and my sister for a crime that she has not committed.
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By Farshad Hoseini
This is the second year that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presence is causing a storm of international protests.
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By Germain Belzile, HEC, Jean-Charles Chebat, HEC, Pierre Brassard, Montréal, Jacques Brassard, former Quebec minister
A conference entitled Nos Familles, Nos Fondations (Our Families, Our Foundations) will shortly take place on Sept. 25 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal (the convention centre). The conference, sponsored by Islamic Relief Canada, a well-known organization which is headquartered in Great Britain, is the product of the alliances of the broad Muslim Brotherhood movement.
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By Sajad Ghaderzadeh
Our mother is innocent and should be released unconditionally.
I ask the eight industrial countries and the governments of Turkey and Brazil and the entire world to continue the pressure against the Islamic Republic and don’t assume that the case is resolved.
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By Marc Lebuis on behalf of the Point de Bascule team
Translation by Point de Bascule
In a letter published by Le Devoir on July 13th 2010, Phyllis Lambert* and Serge Joyal** ask the Charest Government to reconsider its decision to purchase the building that the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) was going to acquire in downtown Montreal in order to establish a mosque and a community center.
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By Jasmina Munteanu
Romania entered the European Union on the 1st of January 2007. Romanian emigration to Italy is relatively high, with the Romanian community in Italy numbering 796.477 as of December 2008.
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by David Kilgour
The main conclusion of the book (1) "is that there has been and continues today to be large-scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners".
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By Uri Avnery
IT IS already a commonplace to say that people who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat their mistakes. Some 1942 years ago, the Jews in the province called Palaestina launched a revolt against the Roman Empire. In retrospect, this looks like an act of madness. Palestine was a small and insignificant part of the world-wide empire which had just won a crushing victory against the rival power – the Parthian Empire (Persia) – and put down a major rebellion in Britain. What chances could the Jewish revolt have?
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