Sessions include:

"Palestinian Struggle: Liberation or Statehood?"
"Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: Global Solidarity for Palestine"
"Canada and Israel: Settler-Colonial United Front"
The Palestinian Authority's "September statehood initiative" - in which the United Nations will be asked to recognize Palestine as a member state upon the convening of the UN General Assembly in September - has led to a great deal of discussion and media coverage about Palestine, self-determination and statehood. What does the statehood initiative really mean? What are its implications for the Palestinian struggle for liberation, and for the Palestinian people, inside and outside Palestine?

Omar Barghouti, a human rights activist and co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, said on a Canadian speaking tour, that he is among the most optimistic in the global BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement against Israeli apartheid, but is himself surprised at the rapidity of its growth.

Hundreds of Israeli college professors have signed a petition accusing the education minister of endangering academic freedoms after he threatened to "punish" any lecturer or institution that supports a boycott of Israel.

The backlash against Gideon Saar, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, comes after a series of moves suggesting he is trying to stamp a more stridently right-wing agenda on the Israeli education system.

The education minister has outraged the 540 professors who signed the petition, by his open backing of a nationalist youth movement, Im Tirtzu, which demands that teachers be required to prove their commitment to right-wing Zionism.