News Highlights:
- Israeli forces invade the village of Bilin again, attacking several homes and trying to arrest activists.
- Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian motorist, claiming he failed to stop at a border checkpoint.
- Mahmoud Abbas agrees to meet with Israeli PM Netanyahu and U.S. President Obama in New York, despite Israel’s refusal to freeze settlement building.
- Jimmy Carter says Israel must stop building settlements if peace is ever to be achieved
Spanish Housing Ministry disqualifies Ariel University Center from an international competition because the Israeli university is “located in occupied territories”.
Feature:
The feature was highlights of a speech given by Hanna Kawas to the second annual Palestine Lives Conference at McMaster University on the subject of “Canadian Policy on Palestine”. The conference in April 2006 was organized by the Solidarity with Palestinian Human Rights group at the campus and brought together many Palestinian academics and activists for a full day of workshops and talks on Palestinian solidarity issues. Hanna spoke about Canadian complicity in Palestinian dispossession, both historically and in current terms.
Focus on Zionism:
Highlights of a September, 18th, 2009 Electronic Intifada article about how the global Boycott Israel movement is derailing the construction of a new Jerusalem transit system, due to the withdrawal of the French company Veolia.
Here is an audio file of this show: