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This is what I sent to The Gazette:
Between March 7th and March 20th, campuses in Canada, the United States, Europe, South Africa, the Palestinian territories, and elsewhere, did/will host Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) in an effort to raise consciousness about the nature of Israel's rule over Palestinians.
(Damascus) How many of you remember Monty Python's dead parrot sketch? It was a wonderful comedic routine that transcended nationality and culture. Timeless in its appeal, it is often cited in doomed or desperate situations when a bit of gallows humour is needed.
University of Athabasca History professor Joe Kelly said apartheid is an accurate description of the Israeli government policy.
We have never been so ugly. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu seeks to silence the call to prayer over the loudspeakers of the country's mosques, and to shut down Channel 10 television.
"Peace is not a process. It is a state of being. You either have it or not. The Palestinians have not had peace since 1949. They have been under siege." That is how Trevor Purvis, Carleton University professor of international law summed up the situation of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and in Israel itself.
With the recent formation of The Emergency Committee for Israel, the neoconservative and Likudnik characters on the American right have stepped up their anti-Iranian lobbying efforts. Among other things, they have again brought up how a nuclear Iran would pose an "imminent threat" that would tear the region apart.
Few politicians would dare ignore an organization like the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC), which Chief Executive Bernie Farber says has more clout in the halls of power than most minority groups even though it represents only 360,000 people across the country.
Most North Americans probably don't know - or care for that matter - that the two million people in Gaza - a strip of land 20 miles long and three or four miles wide - live in what Jonathan Kuttab, a leading human rights lawyer in Israel and Palestine characterized as an open-air prison.
There is an interesting phenomenon which we can call "the political retiree's confession." I don't mean all those hyped memoirs, ghost written for all manner of high-ranking ex-officials. Here I refer to statements by important political leaders and bureaucrats, either out of office or about to vacate their positions, publicly describing what really needs to be done.
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Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of several books focussing on the Middle East including 'The Hundred Years' War On Palestine'. He explains some of the basic facts of the struggle for Palestinian independence and the creation of the Zionist project of Israel.