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’.
Dr. Haidar Eid is Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature, Al-Aqsa University, Gaza Strip, Palestine. Dr. Eid is a founding member of the One Democratic State Group (ODSG) and a member of Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). This speech was delivered via video link between Gaza and the West Bank, at a panel on “Promoting a Culture of Resistance” at the 4th Bil’in International Conference on Grassroots Popular Resistance.