This week …

News Highlights:

  • Palestinian and international activists tore down a small part of the apartheid wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, as part of a week of protests.
  • Human Rights Watch calls on the Israeli government to immediately stop demolishing Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem.
  • A new report says Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli soldiers and settlers; childbirth is of particular concern, given the Israeli military restrictions on freedom of movement.
  • Israeli PM Netanyahu meets with Barak Obama, with no change in Israel’s position on expanding settlements.

Feature:

An interview direct from Gaza City with Canadian human rights volunteer Eva Bartlett. Eva, a freelance journalist, has been in Gaza for over a year now, and is an eyewitness to the brutal Israeli attacks and siege on the Palestinian population. She talked about the lack of reconstruction, the devastating effects of the siege and the Israeli military harassment of farmers and fishermen trying to eke out a meagre living. There was discussion and criticism of the Canadian government position, especially the latest UN vote against the Goldstone report, and listeners were called on to join the boycott Israel movement and to let the government here know that they do not support Israeli war crimes.

Focus on Zionism:

Highlights of a November 8th, 2009 Xinhua report about the suffering of Gaza’s children, 10 months after the Israeli invasion, and the mental and physical scars that were left on a whole generation of children in Gaza.

Here is an audio file of this show: