News Highlights:
- Aug. 31st – thousands of Palestinians march in the funeral of a solidarity
hunger striker, Aisheh Al Zaban, the mother of a political prisoner in an
Israeli jail. - Meanwhile, the hunger strike entered its 16th day, as Israeli authorities
attempt to break the strike. - Political prisoners in one jail, Shikma, resume their strike after stopping
it for two days on promises from prison officials that were not fulfilled. - Nine year-old Palestinian girl wounded in a failed Israeli assassination
attempt in Jenin. - Israeli High Court rules, after lengthy legal challenge, that the
documentary “Jenin, Jenin” may be shown on television and in theatres in
Israel. - Arun Ghandi, grandson of Mahatma Ghandi, visits Bethlehem and addresses
rally in Manger Square; compares current situation in occupied Palestine
with Apartheid South Africa.
Feature:
A report on the on-going complaint against Global TV for numerous airings of
the biased program, Jenin: Massacring the Truth. Canada Palestine
Association in Vancouver initiated a complaint with
both the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) and the CRTC about the
show, detailing how it has distorted facts and was basically a mouthpiece
for the Israeli point-of-view. Peter Kent, who answered for Global TV,
tried to dismiss the Israeli destruction of the Jenin refugee camp and the
voices of the survivors in the documentary, Jenin Jenin. CPA is now awaiting
the ruling of the CBSC.
Focus on Zionism:
Excerpts of an article from the Aug. 24th Israeli newspaper Haaretz, about the
comments of South African law professor John Dugard. Dugard, the special
rapporteur for the U.N. on human rights in occupied Palestine, wrote that
there is an apartheid regime in the occupied territories “worse than the one
that existed in South Africa.”