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Students and Community Members To Show Up at Spatz Dinner to Make Some Noise

by Students Against Israeli Apartheid Dalhousie


Students Against Israeli Apartheid Dalhousie (SAIAD) alongside several other community groups will be protesting the $250 dollar a plate dinner being held in Jim Spatz' honour this evening at the Cunard Centre. The group has been calling for Jim Spatz, the chair of Dalhousie's Board of Governors to refuse the award he is being given by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) for building a bike path in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

The students say that on top of the JNF employing racially discriminatory policies by only selling land to Jews, the bike path in question will be built on top of a Muslim Cemetery, thereby desecrating the grave sites below. After receiving no response from Dr. Spatz to a letter they sent him outlining their concerns the group is now planning to target their university which has purchased a table for the event and contributed over $1000 to the dinner.
 

For more information please contact:

Amer Hussein
Member of Students Against Israeli Apartheid Dalhousie
(M) (902)580-7999
saia.dal@hotmail.com

amer_12@msn.com

 

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