News Highlights:
- Israeli settlers and soldiers harass Palestinian farmers from Kfar Qadum, as they try to harvest their olives; the village has come under almost daily attack, despite the presence of international peace activists.
- Egypt offers new draft to achieve Palestinian national unity, with a meeting in Cairo in November.
- Syria calls on the U.N. to condemn the U.S. military raid on a Syrian village that killed 8 civilians.
- Swedish company closes factory in Israeli settlement due to protests from Swedish NGOs and the Church of Sweden that the company was involving itself in “crimes against international law”.
Feature:
A live interview with two staff members of the Palestinian NGO Al Haq, Dylan Smith and John Reynolds, who were currently touring eastern Canada. The two, who are both lawyers, talked about the work of Al Haq, one of the oldest Palestinian NGOs involved with human rights, and also described the new film Al Haq has made about Israel’s “Canada Park”, entitled Memory of the Cactus (the film will be coming to Vancouver on November 21st). The guests concluded by summarizing the supportive response they have received at all their meetings, including the one in Ottawa that the Israel lobby tried unsuccessfully to shut down.
Focus on Zionism:
There was no Focus on this show due to the length and importance of the interview.
Here is an audio file of this show: