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Activists say Montreal firms used as fronts for building Israeli settlements
20/07/2008 · Score: 100.00%
[The Canadian Press] Murky ownership of two Montreal companies is feeding allegations by U.S. activists that the firms are being used as fronts for Israeli developers intent on building settlements in Palestinian territory. The companies - Green Mount International Inc. and Green Park International Inc. - are already being sued for war crimes in Quebec Superior Court by the West Bank town of Bilin. They are accused of violating international and Canadian law by acting as "agents of Israel" in building condominiums within Bilin’s town limits and selling them to Israelis.
A Palestinian-rights group, Adalah-NY, now alleges the companies are controlled by Shaya Boymelgreen, a controversial real-estate developer in New York City. As evidence, they cite Israeli media reports from 2005 and 2006 that identify Boymelgreen as Green Park’s principal stakeholder.
Montreal firms used as fronts for Israeli settlements, activists say
21/07/2008 · Score: 92.86%
[CBC News] Murky ownership of two Montreal companies is feeding allegations by U.S. activists that the firms are being used as fronts for Israeli developers intent on building settlements in Palestinian territory.
Montreal firms building settlements in West Bank want civil suit dismissed
04/06/2009 · Score: 92.86%
[The Canadian Press] A lawyer for Montreal developers being sued under Canadian war-crimes legislation will attempt to get the case dismissed when it goes before a Quebec court later this month.
West Bank village to appeal against Montreal developer
18/02/2010 · Score: 85.71%
[McGill Daily] The Quebec Court of Appeal announced Wednesday that on June 3 they will hear the appeal submitted by the West Bank village of Bil’in against a Superior court decision from last September.
The Bil’in Village Council brought the lawsuit in 2008 against two Quebec-registered companies based in Montreal: Green Park International Inc. and Green Mount International Inc. The plaintiffs claimed that the companies and their sole director, Annette Laroche, are involved in constructing settlements for Israelis on occupied land within the territory of Bil’in.
West Bank village sues developers in Montreal court
22/06/2009 · Score: 71.43%
[Anglican Journal] The Israeli-Palestinian dispute over land in the occupied territories has come to a Montreal courtroom this week. Lawyers for the West Bank village of Bil’in are suing developers Green Park International and Green Mount International, which are registered in Quebec, for building settlements on land that was confiscated from the village by Israel.
Montreal's ties to illegal Israeli settlement
07/05/2009 · Score: 64.29%
[Hour] In June 2009, Bil’in village is scheduled to have a series of court dates that will determine if the lawsuit filed with Quebec Superior Court will be heard.
A solidarity protest with Bil’in village is scheduled for Friday, May 8, at noon outside Indigo bookstore (corner of Ste-Catherine and McGill College).
Press Point: MONDAY JUNE 22nd, 12h30
22/06/2009 · Score: 42.86%
Quebec superior court, 1 Notre Dame East Montreal, Quebec, metro Place-d’Armes/Champs-de-Mars
Media contacts: 514 659 0106 (English) / 514 690 9603 (French), 0015145867669 (Arabic)
Speakers include:
- Mohammed Khatib of the Popular Committee Against the Wall, Bil’in, Palestine (English / Arabic)
- Emily Schaeffer, Israeli lawyer representing the village of Bil’in (English / Hebrew)
- Abdullah Abou Rahme, Popular Committee Against the Wall, Bil’in, Palestine (English / Arabic)
Israeli Apartheid on Trial: Cross Canada Tour, Montreal (19/06/2009)
21/08/2009 · Score: 42.86%
A video report by filmmaker Boban Chaldovich on the Montreal conference on Bil’in’s strugle against Israeli colonization. Watch the video on-line.
Bil’in village has launched a historic lawsuit in Quebec against two locally registered companies, Quebec Superior Court against Green Park International and Green Mount International, which are accused of illegally constructing residential and other buildings on the village’s lands. According to the lawsuit, the lands of Bil’in are subject to the rules and obligations of international law because the West Bank is currently under Israeli military occupation.
Montreal’s conference on Bil’in was the last event in an 11 city national tour on Bil’in village which saw Mohamed Khatib of Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and Emily Schaeffer, an Israeli lawyer representing the village of Bil’in, cross the country educating hundreds of people across Canada on the struggle of Bil’in against Israeli apartheid.
Boban Chaldovich is a filmmaker who recently co-directed Myths for Profit with activist/journalist Amy Miller a dramatic, exposé documentary which explores ‘Canada’s role in Industries of War and Peace’.
From Montreal to Bil'in
15/11/2009 · Score: 42.86%
A benefit party to raise funds for the legal fees of the Palestinian West Bank village of Bil’in, following the launch of Bil’in’s historic lawsuit against two Quebec companies currently building housing and other buildings on lands stolen from the village.
Friday 27 November, 2009 6pm at the CSN building, 1601 de Lorimier (Montreal), Métro Papineau
Come Celebrate five years of the Popular Resistance in Bil’in (Montreal)
22/01/2010 · Score: 42.86%
More information on Tadamon website
Fundraising Evening of Live Music, Slideshows and a Poster Exhibit
Share a piece of Fifth Anniversary Cake!
Saturday, February 6, 8pm
Kaza Maza, 4629 Parc av., Montreal
Demonstration in Solidarity with Bil’in
Sunday, February 7, 1pm
metro Mont-Royal plaza
Land grabs: A Palestinian village sues two Montreal-based companies over the construction of a West Bank settlement
31/07/2008 · Score: 35.71%
[Montreal Mirror] Accused of war crimes for their involvement with Israeli settlement expansion, two Quebec-registered companies are being sued in Canada by the occupied West Bank Palestinian village of Bi’lin.
Toronto lawyer Mark Arnold filed a claim in Quebec Superior Court on behalf of the village against Green Park and Green Mount International three weeks ago. The case is part of a combined Palestinian, Canadian and Israeli effort to halt expansion of the Modi’in Illit settlement.
« Bil'in Habibti » (Bil'in my love): benefit film screening (Montreal)
25/05/2009 · Score: 35.71%
A benefit film screening to raise funds for the upcoming cross-Canada tour from Palestinian activists from Bil’in to mobilize support for the ongoing village protests against Israel’s apartheid wall.
THURSDAY MAY 28th 20h00
suggested donation: $5-10
Bar Populaire
6584 blvd St. Laurent
(metro Beaubien)
Bil’in Habibti won the Wolgin Award for Full-length Documentary Film at The Jerusalem International Film Festival 2006 and received an honorable mention for - « Movies That Matter Award » at Rotterdam Film Festival 2007.
CBC TV report about legal proceedings in Montreal, Quebec - Canada (4/06/2009)
05/06/2009 · Score: 35.71%
Prisoner of conscience
11/02/2010 · Score: 35.71%
[Hour] Palestine-Montreal solidarity continues for the release of community activist Abdallah Abu Rahma
Palestinian prisoner Abdallah Abu Rahma’s plight has been gaining attention around the world since Israeli military forces arrested him on International Human Rights Day last year, Dec. 10, 2009. A key Palestinian community activist in the West Bank village of Bil’in who was free to speak in Montreal only last summer, today Abu Rahma is in an Israeli jail and widely considered a political prisoner.
Bil'in court case continues in Montreal
21/05/2010 · Score: 35.71%
On June 3rd: support activities organized to support of Bil’in’s struggle in Palestine!
9h30: Appeal at the Quebec Court of Appeal
Courtroom Pierre-Basile-Mignault
100 Notre Dame East
metro Champ-de-Mars
19h : Conference with villagers from Bil’in and Israeli lawyer
Georges-Vanier Cultural Center
2450 Workman
Lionel-Groulx metro
More informations on Tadamon website
CKUT Radio: Palestinian Village Sues Two Canadian Companies
27/07/2008 · Score: 28.57%
A report on the West Bank city of Bil’in’s lawsuit against Greenpark and Greenmount - two companies based in Montreal who are allegedly building illegal Israeli settlements on Bil’in’s land.
CKUT Montreal - Download this 18-minute radio report
Bil’in Tour: Israeli Apartheid on Trial
05/06/2009 · Score: 28.57%
In June 2009, Mohamed Khatib of Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and Emily Schaeffer, an Israeli lawyer representing the village of Bil’in, will be embarking on a tour of 11 Canadian cities to speak on Bil’in and the historic court case scheduled to be heard in Montreal in late June 2009.
Check out the itinerary to see when the tour will be visiting your city!
- June 4 - Montreal Press Conference to launch tour
- June 5 - Halifax
- June 6 - Fredericton
- June 8 - Vancouver
- June 9 - Victoria
- June 10 - Edmonton
- June 11 - Moncton
- June 12 - Toronto
- June 15 - Ottawa
- June 17 - Quebec
- June 18 - Sherbrooke
- June 19 - Montreal
- June 22 - Demonstration in Montreal at the first day of the Bil’in hearings
Struggling for land and liberty
31/05/2009 · Score: 28.57%
Last year Bil’in village launched a historic lawsuit in the Quebec Superior Court against two companies registered locally, Green Park International and Green Mount International, who are currently helping to build an Israeli-only settlement on land within Bil’in’s municipal jurisdiction. In tandem with the Quebec court case Palestinian activist Mohammed Khatib, with the Bil’in popular committee, is set to tour Canada throughout June to speak about the key court case in Quebec and to mobilize support for the ongoing popular protests in Bil’in village. In the lead-up to this historical cross-Canada tour Mohammed Khatib spoke about the struggle in Bil’in village live on CKUT radio, 90.3 fm in Montreal.
Interview with Mohammed Khatib of the Bil’in popular committee by Stefan Christoff
CKUT Montreal - Download the mp3 - Transcription of that interview
Que. companies committing war crime
25/06/2009 · Score: 28.57%
[Montreal Gazette] Two Canadian companies that are building condominiums for Israeli settlers in the West Bank are committing a war crime, a lawyer representing a tiny Palestinian farming village that is trying to sue the firms by using Canada’s War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Act argued Thursday.
Press Release: Bil'in announced that it has commenced legal proceedings in Canada
09/07/2008 · Score: 21.43%
The Village of Bil’in, in the West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories, announced today that it has commenced legal proceedings in Canada against two Canadian Companies for committing war crimes. The case has been filed in the Quebec Superior Court sitting at Montreal, Canada. A full copy of the claim is attached.
Bil’in alleges that Green Park International Inc. and Green Mount International Inc., both registered corporations in the Province of Quebec, acting as agents for Israel, are illegally constructing residential and other buildings on lands under the municipal jurisdiction of the Village and are marketing and selling condominium units to the civilian population of the State of Israel. Bil’in further alleges in its claim that its land and the defendants are subject to the rules and obligations of international law because the West Bank is occupied territory arising from an act of war that took place in 1967.
Support Bil’in’s historic court case
03/03/2009 · Score: 21.43%
Bil’in is calling on supporters from all over the world to join them in solidarity actions during the court case in Canada. The village also needs your help setting up and financing a legal fund to fight the court case, which currently is in need of approximately $50,000.
« Bil’in – A village united against the Wall », a photo exhibit by ActiveStills
09/01/2009 · Score: 21.43%
Exhibition features photos from the ongoing popular struggle against Israel’s apartheid wall, and daily life and survival in Bil’in, Palestine.
« Bil’in – A village united against the Wall » will be on display at Café l’Escalier (552 Ste-Catherine east, Montreal) from January 9th until February 9th, 2009.
Vernissage friday January 9th 2009, 5-7pm at Café l’Escalier (this is a free event)
The exhibition will also displayed at the following locations:
- February 13 – 28: Bar Populaire, 6584 boul. St-Laurent (Montreal)
- March 1 – 9: Café Aquin, UQAM, 400 Ste-Catherine east, room A-2030, Montreal (as part of the 5th international Israeli Apartheid Week)
This photo exhibition is presented in collaboration with ActiveStills and occurs within Tadamon!’s ongoing political campaigns operating in Canada, including the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid state and the campaign to challenge the listing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization by the Canadian government.
« Bil’in – A village united against the Wall »
09/01/2009 · Score: 21.43%
« Bil’in – A village united against the Wall », photo exhibit by ActiveStills, will be on display at :
- Café l’Escalier, 552 Ste-Catherine east, Montreal, from January 9th until February 9th
- Bar Populaire, 6584 boul. St-Laurent, Montreal, from February 13 – 28
- Café Aquin, 400 Ste-Catherine east, room A-2030, Montreal, from March 1 – 9 (as part of the 5th international Israeli Apartheid Week)
Canadian Tour : appeal for help on an upcoming tour of Mohammed Khatib, member of Bil'in Popular Committee
09/04/2009 · Score: 21.43%
Bi’lin committee needs help organizing its Canadian speaking tour from June 1st – June 21st 2009. The speaking tour will present both Bil’in village’s ongoing struggle to save it’s land from annexation and the legal case raised by the village against Green Park Int and continued Israeli settlement expansion in Canada. The speakers will be Mohammad Khatib of the Bilin popular committee against the Wall and settlements, a representative of the office of attorney Michael Sfard as well as Attorney Mark Arnold of Montreal who are representing Bil’in in their case against Canadian companies building illegal settlements on their land.
Court to decide if builders can be sued for settlements
10/06/2009 · Score: 21.43%
[Canadian Jewish News] A Quebec court will decide whether a lawsuit against two Canadian-based companies that are alleged to have illegally constructed residential buildings for Jewish settlers on disputed land in the West Bank can be heard here.
Canada to consider settlements suit
22/06/2009 · Score: 21.43%
[Al Jazeera] A Canadian court is to consider a lawsuit brought by Palestinians from the West Bank town of Bilin who say two Canadian firms have committed war crimes by assisting in construction of Israeli settlements.
Activists filed the suit against Green Mount International and Green Park International - two Canadian companies contracted to build in the settlement of Modiin Illit, in a Montreal court, where the companies are registered.
Bil’in solidarity rally
09/08/2009 · Score: 21.43%
[Tadamon] A protest in solidarity with Bil’in, Palestine took to the street in downtown Montreal on Friday, August 7th, to denounce the ongoing night-time raids on Bil’in and string of arrests by the Israeli military targeting Palestinian community activists. Israeli military forces have been launching night incursions into the village throughout recent weeks and targeting the homes of members of Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements.
Support Bil’in amidst the ongoing Israeli arrest and intimidation campaign
02/09/2009 · Score: 21.43%
The Israeli military’s most recent attempt to crush Bil’in village’s ongoing popular non-violent resistance campaign against the Apartheid Wall is a wave of night raids and arrests targeting protesters and the leadership of Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements.
Bilin's legal struggle continues
10/11/2009 · Score: 21,43%
[Electronic Intifada] Abdullah Abu Rahme can no longer sleep in his own home. A member of the Bilin Popular Committee Against the Wall, Abu Rahme explained that since Bilin began its legal proceedings in Canada, Israeli soldiers have made life especially difficult for residents of the small West Bank village.
Palestinian villagers try to sue Canadian builders
10/07/2008 · Score: 14,29%
[The Guardian] Lawyers for a Palestinian village have begun a rare legal case against two Canadian construction companies working in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, accusing them of breaching war crimes laws and demanding an injunction to halt their work as well as damages worth around £1m.
Bil'in sues Canadian building companies
10/07/2008 · Score: 14,29%
[Jerusalem Post] A West Bank village has sued two Canadian companies for building in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, the village’s lawyer said Thursday.
Attorney Michael Sfard said this was the first time a private company has been sued for investing in settlements. The claim was filed Wednesday in Superior Court in Montreal, Canada, against Green Park International and Green Mount International, sister companies registered in Quebec.
Artists Against Apartheid IV
26/08/2008 · Score: 14,29%
More information on Tadamon website
Bridges to Bil’in: performances, presentations and visuals against Israeli apartheid. A cultural event within the ongoing Artists Against Apartheid concert series uniting ground-breaking artists from Montreal in solidarity with the growing international movement against Israeli apartheid. This evening will focus on the contemporary struggle of Bil’in.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th, 2008
8pm. 5-10$
La Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent
Montreal (Quebec)
Gaza: Colonial Violence and Flawed Justifications
31/12/2008 · Score: 14,29%
[La Presse] The Israeli government’s propaganda about the war in Gaza has been uncritically accepted by Canadian media, becoming the dominant discourse in most news reports. The violence we are witnessing is explained by declaring that Hamas has broken the truce with Israel, and therefore it is responsible for the current level of Israeli violence, which is thereby represented merely as a reasonable and justified retaliation. According to this view, Israel is only defending itself against a vicious enemy which is still intent on destroying it. At best, the excesses of the attacks against Gaza are deplored, but their presentation as retaliation is not even questioned.
Israeli Apartheid on Trial: Bil'in VS Green Mount International / Green Park International
02/06/2009 · Score: 14,29%
[Press Release] Mohammed Khatib of Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and the committee’s lawyer Emily Schaeffer who is bringing forward the case alongside Canadian lead lawyer Mark Arnold will be touring Canada this June. The speaking tour, hitting 11 Canadian cities, will take place in the run-up to a landmark lawsuit that seeks to hold two Canadian corporations accountable for breaches of international law and Canadian domestic law.
A world away, Palestinian seeks justice
16/06/2009 · Score: 14,29%
[TheStar.com] Villager in Toronto accuses Canadian firms of ‘war crimes’ over West Bank settlement.
First came the fence, which splintered the olive trees from Bil’in, the Palestinian village that tended them. Then came the tear gas canister that hit a local, well-liked man named Basem Abu Rahme in the chest, killing him.
Demonstration: Solidarity with Bil’in
15/06/2009 · Score: 14,29%
MONDAY JUNE 22, 12noon
Quebec superior court 1 Notre Dame east Montreal, Quebec Place-d’Armes/Champs-de-Mars
bring your Palestinian flags, solidarity banners, placards and noisemakers
From Bil’in: "We refuse to die in silence."
24/06/2009 · Score: 14,29%
[I saw it in Palestine] A world-class drama is unfolding in Canada. The Palestinian village of Bil’in is taking two Quebec-based corporations, Green Park International and Green Mount International to court on charges that they are committing war crimes by building on Bil’in farmland as agents of Israel for the illegal settlement of Modi’in Illit. The corporations, assumed to be shell corporations located in Quebec for tax reasons, have been trying to stave off this case by procedural ploys — including a challenge to the jurisdiction that will take place in the Montreal Courthouse on June 22, 2009. Mohammad Khatib, a Bil’in leader, the Israeli lawyer, Emily Schaeffer, and the Canadian lawyer, Mark Arnold, are traveling across Canada to explain the significance of this case and to raise funds for the court costs.
Bil’in village continues legal battle
27/06/2009 · Score: 14,29%
[Tadamon] Bil’in village’s legal battle against two Quebec-based companies for constructing Israeli settlements on Palestinian land continues.
Demonstration for release of activist Mohammad Khatib
05/08/2009 · Score: 14,29%
A solidarity rally for Bil’in village has been called in Montreal to protest the recent arrest of Palestinian activist Mohammad Khatib and the ongoing nighttime raids on Bil’in being carried out by the Israeli military.
FRIDAY AUGUST 7th, 12h00
Indigo Bookstore
corner of St. Catherine & McGill college
(metro McGill)
Montreal, Canada
source : Tadamon
Palestinian Organizer Imprisoned after Tour of Canada
17/08/2009 · Score: 14,29%
Interview with Abdullah Abu Rahme of Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements
Palestinian Village of Bil'in Seeks Justice in Canada
20/10/2009 · Score: 14,29%
As part of the Village’s campaign against the construction of settlements on their lands, Bil’in has filed an unprecedented legal claim in Canada against two Canadian companies and their Canadian director. The claim arises from the construction of apartment buildings and the marketing and selling of residential units in the Modi’in Illit settlement which is built, in part, on the lands belonging to Bil’in. The lawsuit has been filed in the Canadian Province of Quebec where those companies and their director are registered and live.
Quebec court mulls Palestinian villagers' appeal
04/06/2010 · Score: 14,29%
[CBC] Quebec’s highest court will review the case of Palestinian villagers in the West Bank who are trying to sue two Canadian companies under advisement.
The Quebec Court of Appeal on Thursday decided to take the case under advisement. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it will actually hear the case.
From Bil'in to Birmingham
10/09/2006 · Score: 7,14%
One of the latest in the long series of unpublicized Israeli attacks on civilians took place on August 25 in the West Bank village of Bil’in, a longstanding bastion of nonviolent Palestinian resistance. It occurred during the weekly protest against the Israeli de-facto-boundary wall being constructed in their midst. About 100 protestors — Palestinian, Israeli and international activists — were walking to the site of the wall when, without provocation, soldiers in riot gear waded in and began clubbing demonstrators and firing rubber bullets at close range.
Bil'in Habibti - Bil'in My Love : Screening in presence of the director Shai Carmeli Pollak
01/03/2008 · Score: 7,14%
• Montreal (Canada) : Friday, March 7th at 7 pm - Concordia University, room H-435 of the Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve west (Guy-Concordia metro)
• Pittsburgh (US) : Sunday, March 9th at 2 pm - First Unitarian Church, Shadyside 605 Morewood Ave (Flyer)
Those events are part of The Movement against Apartheid in Palestine US 2008 National Speaking Tour & Film Screening.
Teaser and informations about the film
1948 - 2008 : 60 Years of Palestinian Suffering & Homelessness
03/05/2008 · Score: 7,14%
Let us demonstrate that we still care and demand justice!
Saturday May 10, 2008 - 1:00 PM
Montreal - Dorchester Square (Peel & René-Lévesque)
Anti-colonial films - under the stars!
20/06/2008 · Score: 7,14%
Join us for a double-bill of fabulous documentary films under the moon in downtown Montreal.
Tadamon! will be presenting two excellent films reflecting on struggles against land theft and colonization in Palestine and Turtle Island. The films are being presented as part of the mobilization for the demonstration “400 years of colonialism and militarism: nothing to celebrate!” in Quebec City on July 3rd.
Tuesday, July 1st, 9pm, 2008
in the lot beside l’Insoumise
2035 St-Laurent
(between Ontario and Sherbrooke)
metro St-Laurent
Featuring the screenings of:
- Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Directed by Alanis Obomsawin. 119 minutes.
- Bil’in My Love - Bil’in Habiti, Directed by Shai Carmeli Pollak. 84 minutes
Bil’in Village Council Submits Case before Canadian Court Against Canadian Corporations for Involvement in Illegal Israeli Settlement Construction
10/07/2008 · Score: 7,14%
[AIC] In a continuation of their struggle for justice in the face of unlawful appropriation of their land, the people of Bil’in village yesterday commenced legal proceedings before the Superior Court of Quebec against Green Park International Inc. and Green Mount International Inc. The defendants are Canadian corporations registered in the Province of Quebec who have been involved in constructing, marketing and selling residential units in the illegal Jewish-Israeli settlement of Modi’in Illit in the occupied West Bank, on the land of the village of Bil’in.
Palestinian town sues Canadian builders over Israeli settlement
10/07/2008 · Score: 7,14%
[CBC News] Lawsuit is unique in Canadian legal system
A West Bank village is suing two Quebec-based companies for $2 million, alleging they violated international law by building Israeli settlements on occupied territory.
The claim, filed Wednesday against sister companies Green Park International and Green Mount International, also asks the Quebec Superior Court for an injunction to stop further construction, and demolish apartment buildings already erected in Moddin Illit, a Jewish settlement northwest of Ramallah.
Press Release: Palestinians Sue Boymelgreen Companies for War Crimes, Leviev Implicated
11/07/2008 · Score: 7,14%
[Adalah-NY] New York, NY, July 10, 2008 – Evidence gathered by Adalah-NY indicates that Brooklyn-based billionaire Shaya Boymelgreen owns the two little-known Canadian companies sued Wednesday for war crimes in Canada by the West Bank Palestinian village of Bil’in. Three Hebrew language Israeli media reports from 2005-2006 report that Boymelgreen owns the Green Park companies that are now being sued for $2 million in Quebec Superior Court for building and selling the Israeli settlements of Mattityahu East/Modi’in Illit on Bil’in’s land in violation of international law. The construction of Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory violates the Fourth Geneva Convention according to a broad international consensus.
Israeli Occupation on Trial
08/09/2008 · Score: 7,14%
Continuing the CJPME 2008 Event Series in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, CJPME is delighted to announce:
Panel with Mr. Mark Arnold, Canadian Lawyer for Bil’in and other distinguished panellists.
Please join us September 25, 26, and 27 to explore this important case and its implications for Canada, Israel and the Palestinians.
For a list of other panellists, and for more info on these exciting events, please see CJPME website.
11 national and international networks and organizations call on Norway to divest from Africa-Israel due to settlement construction
05/05/2009 · Score: 7,14%
[Adalah-NY] As diverse organizations concerned with human rights, international law, justice and peace in the Middle East, we are writing in support of the West Bank villages of Bil’in and Jayyous to call on the Norwegian government to conform with its own ethical guidelines and divest its pension holdings from the company Africa-Israel, owned by Lev Leviev. According to a Norwegian Government report, as of December 31, 2008 a total of 6,665,567 Kroner in Norwegian government pension funds were invested in Africa-Israeli Investments and Africa-Israel Properties.
Palestinian village sends pair to sue Quebec companies
02/06/2009 · Score: 7,14%
[CBC] Two representatives of a small West Bank Palestinian village will tour Canada this month, as they prepare a lawsuit against two Quebec-based companies for allegedly violating international law by building Israeli settlements on occupied territory.
Seeking a settlement on settlements: Palestinian village takes its fight against the Israeli occupation to Canadian courts and Canadian Public
04/06/2009 · Score: 7,14%
[Vue Weekly] In a somewhat stunning reminder of the way the globalization of commerce has connected the whole world in recent decades, two Canadian companies are being accused of war crimes and are being sued in Canada by the village of Bil’in, located in Palestine’s occupied West Bank.
Village sues Canada companies cashing in on occupation
11/06/2009 · Score: 7,14%
[Electronic Intifada] The small Palestinian village of Bilin will face-off this month against two Canadian corporations accused of aiding and abetting the colonization of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Taking Israel to Quebec court
11/06/2009 · Score: 7,14%
[Tadamon] While Israel’s right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to expand Israeli colonies in the West Bank, in a key speech in Cairo last week the Obama administration called Israeli settlements a violation of international law and an impediment to peace talks.
Palestinian lawsuit condemns Canadian condo project as war crime
21/06/2009 · Score: 7,14%
[Canada.com] Members of a tiny Palestinian farming community will be in Quebec Superior Court Monday claiming two Canadian construction companies are committing war crimes by building condominiums and roads on the village’s land in the West Bank
Solidarity with Bil’in
24/06/2009 · Score: 7,14%
[Tadamon] Bil’in village has been a focus for the Palestinian solidarity movement in Canada during the past month, as Mohamed Khatib from Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements and Emily Schaeffer, an Israeli lawyer representing the village of Bil’in, have recently toured across Canada.
Rally: Free Palestinian political prisoner Mohammad Khatib !
10/08/2009 · Score: 7,14%
[Tadamon] Urgent action in solidarity with Mohammad Khatib and all Palestinian political prisoners.
Stop the Raids
16/08/2009 · Score: 7,14%
My West Bank village of Bil’in, a center of Palestinian nonviolent resistance for nearly five years, has been the target of two months of nightly raids by the Israeli military. The raids aim at ending our nonviolent demonstrations against the confiscation of our land for Israel’s wall and settlements.
23 August 2009: Mohammad Abu Rahma, a member of Bil’in’s Popuar Committee, has been released from Israeli prison on a 5,000 NIS bail
23/08/2009 · Score: 7,14%
Abdallah Abu Rahme, coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee, stated, “The ongoing arrests are meant to create pressure for us to stop our non-violent resistance. The Israeli authorities are putting conditions on our leaders and forcing us to pay thousands of sheckels. But we cannot and will not stop protesting against the theft of our land.”
Support Bil'in Struggle
04/09/2009 · Score: 7,14%
The Popular Committee of Bil’in is in desperate need for funds in order to pay legal fees both for the trial in Montreal and for representing the arrested protesters in the military courts and bail.
Please donate to the Bil’in legal fund through paypal. If you would like to make a tax deductible donation in the US or Canada contact: bilinlegal@gmail.com.
Note : Tax deductible donations in Canada can also be made online or by check through Medical Aid for Palestine in order to pay legal fees for the trial in Canada. More information
Palestinians can't use Quebec court to stop condos
23/09/2009 · Score: 7,14%
[CBC News] Residents of a Palestinian farming village in the West Bank have lost their bid to sue two Canadian companies for allegedly violating international law by building condominiums for Israeli settlers in the area.
Inside Israeli jails, the real victims of a cry for justice
24/11/2009 · Score: 7,14%
[The National] Amid the growing media fever over a possible prisoner swap involving the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held by Hamas, another young captive has a less visible public profile – but personifies Israel’s chokehold on Palestinian self-expression.
Call for the release of Bil'in's prisoners
12/12/2009 · Score: 7,14%
38 residents of Bil’in were arrested after the beginning of a night raid campaign on 23 June 2009. Raids began concurrently with the opening of a legal trial in Montreal. Bil’in has taken two companies registered in Canada to court for participating in war crimes by building settlements on village’s land.
Three things you can do :
- Protest by contacting your political representatives, as well as your consuls and ambassadors to Israel
- Organise demonstrations outside of Israeli embassies in your countries
- Donate to the Bil’in legal fund
CKUT Radio: Interview with Emily Schaeffer
02/06/2009 · Score: 7,14%
CKUT Montreal - Download the file
Israel convicts grassroots activist to two years' imprisonment
01/07/2010 · Score: 7,14%
[Electronic Intifada] On 30 June grassroots activist Adeeb Abu Rahmah was sentenced by Israel to two years imprisonment at a military court hearing at the Ofer Military Complex in the occupied West Bank. Abu Rahmah already spent 11 months behind bars and his arrest and detention is part of Israel’s repressive efforts to criminalize the grassroots popular resistance to the Israeli occupation.
Adeeb Abu Rahmah is known for his vibrant presence at the occupied West Bank village of Bilin’s weekly demonstrations against Israel’s wall and for his commitment to popular nonviolent resistance. A founding member of the Bilin Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, Abu Rahmah was arrested at a nonviolent demonstration on 10 July 2009 and later indicted by the military prosecution on grounds of "incitement," "activity against public order," and "being present in a closed military zone."
