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PAJU Annual General Assembly November 10th, 2019

PAJU
November 8, 2019
Activities

PAJU Annual General Assembly

November 10th, 2019

Association Des Travailleurs Grecs De Montreal

5359 avenue du Parc

On November 10th, 2019, Palestinian and Jewish Unity will hold its annual General Assembly in the hall of the Montreal Greek Workers’ Association, located at 5359 Park Avenue (between St-Viateur and Fairmount). PAJU was established in November 2000, so we mark 19 years of existence and 19 years of solidarity with the Palestinian people!

PAJU invites you to share a meal and ideas with us. We also invite you to become a member of PAJU ($ 10 for the year) if you are not already. Together we will continue our work of solidarity and our mission to educate the Quebec public on the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the daily realities of the Palestinians, under occupation since 1948. (more…)

« End of Occupation » No 978

PAJU
November 8, 2019
Newsletter

‘NY Times’ produces a weak report on the Israeli soldier sentenced to 1 month in prison for murdering a Palestinian boy

James North on October 31, 2019

Relatives of Palestinian Othman Hellas,15, who was shot dead by Israeli troops during clashes at Gaza-Israel border, mourn during his funeral in Gaza city on July 14, 2018. Photo by Mahmoud Ajour

The New York Times did the bare minimum today in reporting on the Israeli soldier who was sentenced to only one month in prison for murdering a young Gazan demonstrator last year. The victim was a 14-year-old boy, Othman Helles, and video evidence showed he was clearly unarmed. In the print edition, the Times headline did not include the shocking short prison sentence, and the Times used some of its other techniques to minimize the damage to Israel’s reputation.

Use the passive voice: The second paragraph reports that “. . . hundreds of Palestinians were killed during the [Great March of Return] protests. . .” Why not “Israeli soldiers killed 183 Gazans and wounded another 9204. Gazans killed 1 Israeli and wounded 11.” (more…)

« End of Occupation » No 977

PAJU
November 1, 2019
End of occupation / Newsletter

WhatsApp sues Israeli firm NSO for ‘helping spies hack phones with video calls’

WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included diplomats, political dissidents, journalists and senior government officials.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco, messaging service WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, accused NSO of facilitating government hacking sprees in 20 countries. Mexico, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were the only countries identified. (more…)

« End of Occupation » No 976

PAJU
October 25, 2019
End of occupation / Newsletter

Palestinian woman on hunger strike against Israeli imprisonment and abuse

Palestinian prisoner, Heba Al-Labadi is on a hunger strike after being sentenced to administrative detention for five months without charge or trial on August 20, 2019. She was interrogated by the Shin Bet for over a month…

By Amira Hass, reposted from Haaretz

A young Jordanian woman who has been held in Israel since August 20 has entered the 22nd day of a hunger strike in protest over the administrative detention order that was issued against her. This order frees the authorities from the need to issue an indictment and back it up with evidence. (more…)