This week …

News Highlights:

  • International delegations come to Nilin to learn more about the escalating Israeli arrest campaign against human rights activists.
  • Israeli settlers, and then soldiers, attack Palestinian villagers near Nablus.
  • Israeli government upgrades Ariel College to university status, which is located in an illegal settlement deep inside the occupied West Bank.
  • EU says it will no longer pay for fuel shipments to Gaza and is waiting for the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah to draft a new agreement.

Feature:

An interview with Rev. Robert Assali from Montreal about the Canadian government’s de-funding of NGO’s such as Kairos and Sabeel, both faith-based organizations. He also detailed efforts of some MPs, led by Jason Kenney, to criminalize any and all criticism of the Israeli government by claiming it is anti-Semitic. Rev. Assali also talked about the Kairos Palestine document, which was issued jointly by all the major Palestinian churches, and calls for international support to end the Israeli occupation.

Focus on Zionism:

Highlights of a report from the Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem about the detrimental effects of the Israeli occupation on the environmental systems, including the damage from unexploded Israeli ordinances, both mines and white phosphorous shells.

Here is an audio file of this show: