News Highlights:
- Palestinians begin annual olive harvest under difficult conditions, including violent attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers.
- International Solidarity Movement re-establishes its presence in Gaza, and will be based in Rafah to assist Palestinian fishermen and farmers.
- In the past 8 years, Israeli forces have killed 5526 Palestinians including 1010 children under 18 and 340 women and girls.
- Canadian Arab groups call for removal of Liberal MP and candidate Ken Dryden after he publicly calls to stop “all aid to Gaza…while..that will hurt Palestinian civilians…it is the right thing to do”.
Feature:
A live interview with Ali Mustafa, from York University, about an incident of racial profiling at a recent event on campus. Ali explained how only Palestinian students were barred from attending a public event organized by a Zionist student club, featuring the Israeli consul general who was introducing a new campaign from the Israeli Foreign Ministry. There was also discussion of the trend of “re-branding” launched by the Israeli government, in their attempt to improve their international image.
Focus on Zionism:
Highlights of an October 6th, 2008 Electronic Intifada report about a recent UN report that criticized Israeli abuse of journalists.
Here is an audio file of this show: