February 2003 Digest (Vol. 1 No. 3)
Table of Contents:
- Advocacy Project & Grassroots International
- YMCA/YWCA Embark on Anti-Israel Campaign
- The Canadian government & terrorism?
- CPAP conference on Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing
Advocacy Project & Grassroots International
Advocacy Net and Grassroots International raise considerable funds from organizations as diverse as UNICEF, AI, governments, private donors and interest groups, but have ideological agendas, cushioned in the name of human rights values.
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YMCA/YWCA Embark on Anti-Israel Campaign
The highly politicized and inaccurate positions of local YMCAs were jeopardizing its ability to undertake humanitarian programs, many national YMCAs issued strongly worded protests prior to the World Council meeting in Mexico last July.
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The Canadian government & terrorism?
A recent National Post editorial noted that Canadian officials "met secretly last March to discuss whether some of their overseas projects put them in violation of Ottawa’s new Anti-terrorism Act, which makes it a crime to fund terrorist groups."
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CPAP conference on Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing
CPAP Chairman opened its winter conference, ‘Israel’s Policy of Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing,’ "In the face of relentless Israeli force, the only weapon the helpless and desperate have is to fling their bodies against the beast. Suicide bombings are no longer the lone act of desperate fanatics…
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