Defend free speech on Palestine
Tell your MPs: Oppose Conservative motion that attacks Israeli Apartheid Week!
Conservative Member of Parliament Tim Uppal (Edmonton – Sherwood Park) has announced that he will introduce a motion in the House of Commons next week that condemns Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), a series of campus-based educational events that takes place at universities and colleges all over the world. Uppal’s motion also condemns the use of the term “apartheid” in any discussion or debate about Israel. Uppal’s tentative motion reads as follows:
“That this House considers itself to be a friend of the State of Israel; that this House is concerned about expressions of anti-Semitism under the guise of “Israeli Apartheid Week”; and that this House explicitly condemns any action in Canada as well as internationally that would equate the State of Israel with the rejected and racist policy of apartheid.”
If Uppal’s motion passes, it will represent an unprecedented attack on free speech in Canada. That it has even been proposed, however, is also a clear sign of the strength and exponential growth of the Palestinian-led solidarity campaign grounded in the 2005 call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel.
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