Backlash Defense Overview

Protest Against Hebron Closures

Bay IJAN joined with other organizations to take part in the action reported below and also in Aljazeera news (see below).

SF Activists Protest Hebron closures

by anon.
Friday Feb 26th, 2010 11:04 AM

On a normal Thursday evening, a group of protesters transformed San Francisco's busiest shopping district into a scene which reflected the realities of Palestinian life in Hebron in the West Bank.

Israeli Apartheid Week

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual international series of events held in cities and campuses across the globe. The aim of IAW is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement.IAW 2010 takes place following a year of incredible successes for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on the global level. Lectures, films, and actions will highlight some of theses successes along with the many injustices that continue to make BDS so crucial in the battle to end Israeli Apartheid.Check Out These Events Happening in Chicago!

USPCN and IJAN Tour Oregon

The United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) and IJAN will go on a three-city tour ofOregon this weekend. Speakingengagements will be held in Eugene, Portland and Corvallis. The tour is sponsored by the Al-Nakba AwarenessProject.

Click here to read an article by the IJAN speaker publishedin the Register Guard Newspaper, the second largest newspaper in Oregon.

Oneyear after Gaza. What happened? What's next?
What can we do now?

Monadel Herzallah from the U.S. Palestine Community Network andfounder/president of the Arab American Union Members Council

Rebecca Tumposky, U.S. Coordinator for the International JewishAnti-Zionist Network

The presentation will demonstrate how Palestinian and Jewish activists canappropriately work together for human rights without giving an appearance ofnormalcy or parity of suffering.

Eugene, Thursday, Feb. 25, 7-9 P.M.

The Knight Browsing Room in the University of Oregon's Knight Library, 1501 Kincaid Eugene, OR 97403-1299.

Portland, Friday, Feb. 26, 7-9 P.M.

Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 298
Portland State University
1825 SW Broadway
Portland OR 97201

Corvallis, Saturday Feb 27 7-9 P.M.

Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship,
2945 NW Circle Blvd., Corvallis OR 97330

Free, donations gratefully accepted.

Sponsored by
Al-Nakba Awareness Project
Advocating Freedom, Justice & Equality in the Holy Land

Co-sponsors to date:
Arab Student Union, UO
Al-Awda Oregon
Peace Action Council Corvallis Unitarian
Corvallis Veterans For Peace
Friends of Middle East Peace Group, Corvallis/Albany
June Kenagy
Bob Stebbins
Milton Takei
Peter Chabarek
Dave Evans