Palestine IsraelApartheidWeek activism campus

In my last article Israel is an Apartheid State, I explained the Israel was now cracking down on the leaders of the human rights movement in Palestine, non-violent protesters like Dr. Mazen Qumsiyeh.  Early this week I received an email on a human rights list  from Dr. Qumsiyeh.  With his permission it is reproduced below:

Before Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) even began members of the Ontario Legislature and the Canadian Parliament are falling all over each other to denounce it. I can't remember another time when elected legislators formally denounced a student activity like this.  Perhaps during the 1950's when McCarthyism was rampant but that was before my time.

Today my Ryerson colleague Alan Sears and I have an article published in the National Post defending Israel Apartheid Week.  As much as I don't like increasing traffic to the web site of this right-wing rag, I have to admit that they are willing to print oppositional viewpoints when they are engaged in one of their vicious campaigns.  The last time they published a piece from me was during their unsuccessful campaign to deny Dr. Morgentaler the Order of Canada.