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April Events

Below you will find various activities IJAN is organizing or collaborating onover the coming weeks in response to or in conjunction with the World Conference Against Racism,otherwise known as the Durban Review Conference (DRC). For example,IJAN is cooperating with the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, andSanctions National Committee in their sponsorship of the Israel Review Conference,a two-day conference in Geneva preceding the DRC. On April 18, therewill a mass demonstration in Geneva against racism and xenophobia. IJANis co-sponsoring this event and supporting coordinated demonstrations (see below)in cities around the world. IJAN's campaign to resist racism, apartheidand genocide will also be kicking off at this time in both London andGeneva and will develop through the year. This participation reflectsIJAN's understanding of Zionism not only as a form of racism andcolonialism in Palestine and the region, but as working hand in handwith racist policies and practices in the United States and Europe. Itis an expression of our commitment to working at the intersection ofPalestineliberation and broader anti-racist and anti-colonial struggles.

Internationally Coordinated Demonstrations

Demonstrations

In solidarity with thegrassroots movements demonstrating at the World Conference AgainstRacism to demand accountability for the role of governments in racism,we are organizing a global day of action.

On April 18th, join with others across the globe in taking another step toward a united front against racism!

Join with the families of 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners being held in Israeli prisons and detention centers.

Join with families of political prisoners and immigrants held in detention in the United States and Guantanamo.

Joinwith the international community gathering in Geneva for the WorldConference Against Racism to demand international accountability forracism, anti-immigrant policies and colonization.

Organize a rally, demonstration or educational event insupport of local struggles for racial and economic justice, immigrantand indigenous rights, and in solidarity with the people ofAfghanistan, Iraq, Haiti and Palestine struggling against occupation.

For more information, contact organize@unitedagainstracism.net or ijan@ijsn.net.

For full call-to-action and background information: www.unitedagainstracism.net.

Anti-Zionist Jews March to Commemorate the 33rd Anniversary of the Argentianian Coup

>> Click here to read the original in Spanish.

Throughout the history of popular liberation struggles, therehas been significant Jewish participation. This participation has beensabotaged by the historic and progressive ethnic cleansing of Palestineby the state of Israel.

In Argentina between 1978 until 1982 the Israeli government, theJewish Agency and other official groups have curbed the immigrationsolicitations of Jewish leftists whose lives were in danger in order tomaintain good commercial and political relations with the militarydictatorship in power. In the same period, Israel realized the sale ofarms valued around one thousand million dollars with Argentina. Likudas well as leaders of the Labor party were directly complicit in thisplot of silence.

Zionism, the founding ideology in Israel, has it's roots inthe era of European colonization and disseminated a continuation ofNazi genocide. Zionism grew in the most violent and oppressive eventsof the nineteenth century, weakening the numerous Jewish militantliberation struggles. Honoring those struggles and to reclaim thespaces of those vibrant popular movements of our time, Zionism and allof it's forms need to be abandoned.

Today we march in solidarity with the memory of the victims ofArgentinian state terror in the monstrous years of repression and alsoas Jewish with the people of Gaza and all of Palestine, victims ofIsraeli state terror, expulsion, oppression, torture and assassinationduring the last 70 years.