Friday, June 5th @ 7:00pm
Room 105, Weldon Law Building (6061 university Avenue)
Free
Bi’lin village, a Palestinian community that has resisted Israel’s
Apartheid wall which annexes and isolates villager’s land, is coming
to Halifax in preparation for the upcoming hearings against Green Park
International. Green Park International and Green Mount International,
both Quebec registered construction companies, are being sued by
Bi’lin for their role in helping to construct the illegal Israeli
settlement of Mattityahu East, which is built on village land. The
Fourth Geneva Convention as well as Canada’s own Crimes Against
Humanity and War Crimes Act, prohibit occupying forces from
establishing settlements at the expense of indigenous populations.
The speaking tour will present both Bil’in village’s ongoing struggle
to save it’s land from annexation by Israeli settlement expansion and
the legal case raised by the village against Green Park International
and Green Mount International. The speakers will be Mohammad Khatib of
the Bilin popular committee against the Wall and settlements, as well
as Israeli lawyer Emily Schaeffer, a representative of the office of
attorney Michael Sfard who will be co-representing Bil’in in their
case against Canadian companies building illegal settlements on their
land.
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