Israeli Apartheid Week Event: Yves Engler - Book Tour

Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid ---- Yves Engler Speaks @ the Kitchener Waterloo Centre for Social Justice

Saturday, March 6, 2010
7:00pm - 10:00pm
KWCCSJ - Kitchener Waterloo Community Centre for Social Justice
63 Courtland (near Benton, 5 min walk from Charles Street Bus Terminal)
Kitchener, ON

Join us at the KWCCSJ for a talk with Yves Engler about his new book "Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid".

This event is part of the series of events happening in Kitchener-Waterloo for Israeli Apartheid week

For more info see
apartheidweek.org and peaceculture.org

Canada and Israel
Building Apartheid
Yves Engler

This book is the first critical primer about Canada’s ties to Israel. It is a devastating account of Canadian complicity in 20th and 21st century colonialism, dispossession and war crimes. The book documents the history of Canadian Christian Zionism, Lester Pearson’s important role in the United Nations negotiations to create a Jewish state on Palestinian land, the millions of dollars in tax-deductable donations used to expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ties to Israel’s Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (Mossad).

”Yves Engler’s meticulously researched volume refutes, for anyone who still believes it, the myth that Canada is or ever has been an honest broker in the Middle East. Reading Engler’s work leaves one with the inescapable and sad conclusion that the essence of Canadian policy has always been support for the establishment and continued dominance of an expansionist Zionist state in the territories that now comprise Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. As a former Zionist youth leader, I thank Engler for setting the record straight and can only lament our country’s historical and ongoing contribution to the tragedy enveloping the long-suffering peoples of the Promised Land, Arab and Jewish.”

- Gabor Maté, Physician and author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction.
Contents

About the Author

Former Vice President of the Concordia Student Union, Yves Engler is a Montréal activist and author. He has published three books: The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy; Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical; and (with Anthony Fenton) Canada in Haiti: Waging War on The Poor Majority.

”Yves became a foreign-policy expert by working as a night doorman in Montreal...He’s in the mould of I. F. Stone, who wasted no time with politicians, who all have an agenda, but went instead straight to the public record.”
- Rick Salutin, Globe and Mail