Resisting Apartheid: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions - Israeli Apartheid Week

Resisting Apartheid: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Our keynote speaker, Omar Barghouti will launch Israeli Apartheid Week 2009.
Library Building Room: LIB072
Ryerson Univesity
350 Victoria St.

Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher, commentator and human rights activist. He is a founding member of the Palestinian campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel to uphold international law and universal human rights. He holds a bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University, NY. He contributed to the philosophical volume, "Controversies and Subjectivity" (John Benjamins, 2005) and to "The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid" (Verso Books, 2001). He advocates an ethical vision for a unitary, secular democratic state in historic Palestine.

Moderators: Golta Shahidi, Saron Ghebressellassie

Full programme for the week available at www.apartheidweek.org

Israeli Apartheid Week Toronto is organized by: Students Against Israeli Aparthied U of T (a working group of OPIRG), Students Against Israeli Apartheid York, and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights Ryerson.