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LONDON - A filmmaker, anthropologist and economic researcher are among those headlining events marking what pro-Palestinian organizers have declared as "Israeli Apartheid Week" - and all three speakers are Israeli. University campuses in more than 40 cities around the world are marking the week with lectures, films, multimedia events, cultural performances and demonstrations. Since they were first launched in 2005, the events have become some of "the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar," according to its organizers. Advertisement Its aim, they state on their Web site, is to "contribute to this chorus of international opposition to Israeli apartheid and to bolster support for the boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) campaign." Though many of the details about those events were not being promoted on the Apartheid Week Web site, it did list several events being offered by Israelis. Among them is Shir Hever, an economic researcher at the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, who is scheduled to give a series of lectures at the University of Amsterdam entitled "Could the Economic Policies of Israel be Considered a Form of Apartheid?" In addition, Israeli activist and filmmaker Shai Carmeli-Pollak is screening his 2006 documentary "Bil'in Habibti," about Israel Defense Forces violence, at Boston-area universities. Jeff Halper, the Israel-based professor of anthropology who is co-founder and coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, was scheduled to speak on "Israeli Apartheid: The Case For BDS" at Glasgow University. The participation of several Israelis in the anti-Zionist events is "atrocious," said David Katz, a member of Britain's Jewish Board of Deputies who grew up in South Africa and has long fought the comparison between that country's racial segregation and Israel's ethnic divisions. "They are free to do as they please, but it's atrocious," he said of the participating Israelis. "I think they don't understand the analogy they are making... which is insulting to those who suffered under apartheid." "It's like calling things 'holocaust' which are not the Holocaust or terming something 'genocide' which is not genocide," said Katz. As part of efforts to counter the Apartheid Week events, one Jewish charity brought over Benjamin Pogrund, a South African immigrant to Israel who is the former deputy editor of the Johannesburg-based Rand Daily Mail, to speak to British university students about why Israel is not an apartheid state. "The game plan of those who seek the destruction of Israel is to equate us with South Africa, a pariah state which had to be subjected to international sanctions," Pogrund has said. "Israelis coming to take part in this week should know better." In Canada, the legislature in the province of Ontario unanimously condemned Israeli Apartheid Week, voting for a resolution that denounced the campus events. "If you're going to label Israel as Apartheid, then you are also... attacking Canadian values," Conservative legislator Peter Shurman told Shalom Life, a Toronto-based Jewish Web site. "The use of the phrase 'Israeli Apartheid Week' is about as close to hate speech as one can get without being arrested, and I'm not certain it doesn't actually cross over that line," he said. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1153017.html When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nice get out of jail free card, if the old testament is suppased by the new testament then why not just bin it and have a new testament touchy feely bible? When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For crying out loud, get a life dude. If you hate Muslims so much can't you simply get a posting back state side? Boy.. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What a non story When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The cracks have already spread way beyond Spain and Greece. Ireland for example is seriously screwed. The place is a second world country. With public sector workers having their pay slashed as well as their pensions, one in four men under 25 unemployed, unemployment spiraling and the Gardai (Police) threatening to strike its getting worse by the day. If it wasn't for the Euro Ireland would have gone the same way as Iceland and gone bankrupt. The Euro is the main reason why more countries haven't. Germany and France have massive economies and while it will hurt Europe will pull through this together. Apart from anything else this is a perfect opportunity for the Germans and French to further cement pan European integration with them very firmly at the helm. As for Ireland, well I'm currently using my laptop and 3G internet connection while I wait for the current powercut to end. With a large bomb going off in Newry this week and a man tortured, blindfolded half naked and executed by the side of a country road a couple of days ago; lets just say its looking bleak. http://www.economist.com/countries/ireland/ When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

An emotionless olypmics maybe your idea of a great event but its certainly not mine. Do you really believe my profile? I'm not from Zimbabwe, just to be clear. Emotion and underage drinking with a "mostly empty arena" meaning there are some people still there isn't in accordance with the Olympics and the team, the Canadian Hockey athority of some sort and all aggree and it's a done issue. But it was inappropriatee. Why wouldn't you be from Zimbabwe? There are others on this site who are from Southern Africa, funny enough gravity works there also. However, now I know that you are a self stated liar, I no longer can believe any of your posts or the reason behind posting them. Therefore I'm not going to waste my time arguing against your point but simply put it down to trolling. As by your own admission you have no integrity. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wheres the harm??? They girls worked their arses off for years and won gold at the Olympics! In their own county, playing their national sport!!! if they can't celebrate then who can?? Whats the big deal (Its not like Zimbabwe came second ) An emotionless olypmics maybe your idea of a great event but its certainly not mine. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

IOC need to cop on to themselves, miserable old gits. Well done Canada! When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I remember back when first hearing the news of the Falklands crisis starting to blow up, I was thinking it must be some kind of satire piece (like The Onion does today). Britain going to war with Argentina? It seemed about as likely as Switzerland going to war with Guatemala. Most people over here didn't know anything about it until they invaded, then we had no idea where the falklands were, I remember people thinking the Argentinians had invaded part of Scotland! When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Yes max, I remember it very well. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Pure quackery, but it has a place as 'complementary' therapy. After all GPs simply don't have time to sit and ask one hundread and one daft questions that lead to lonley patient getting it all off their chest. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

They may not be able to afford anything else. How many capital ships does Britain have now? They didn't have any back in '82 either. They decommissioned all their last fleet carrier in 1979. Actually we have three aircraft carriers more than anyother nation other than the USA. http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/upload/package/63/index.html As you can see here: http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/surface-fleet/fleet-today/ We have more than enough ships to do the job. That said, i doubt that there will be any actual conflict over the falklands. As long as the Bennys want to remain British they will be British. I wouldn't want to see a war with Argentina, after all any country that produces Malbec, Tango and great steak can't be all that bad eh? When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Thanks, but we don't want New York, we've plenty of Starbucks, Mac Donalds & Burger Kings in London When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

They may not be able to afford anything else. How many capital ships does Britain have now? Enough to sink the Argentine fleet When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Who cares what the Argies want or who supports them, its British, paid for in the blood of our fallen; and thats the way it will stay. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good its about time somone called them on their quackery When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

TE Lawrence did it, went from Lieutenant-Colonel to Aircraftsman. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LOL When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Judging by your profile its advice you clearly took to heart. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Maybe I'm colour blind and hadn't realised it but your name isn't in green. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Me too, you can't get a decent curry in Dublin to save your life. All the curry houses are crap. Up north there ares ome of the best Indians I know of but south of the border there feck all... With one exception in Galway. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To those who understand no explanation is needed, to those who don't no explaination will suffice. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LOL... When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Has anyone been charged with that act? When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Looks like someone had a chat with another tosser.. http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Body-of-SAS-faker-found.4911007.jp When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca