Canadian Funding for the Only Palestinian Research Center in Israel Cut http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/340.php

Added to the list of civil society organizations under attack in Canada by the Harper government's devastating position on the Zionist-Palestinian conflict is MADA al-Carmel, the Haifa based Arab Center for Applied Social Research. The Canadian government owned International Development Research Centre (IDRC), despite having had a long-standing relationship with the research center without any complaints of the quality of its academic and social research, abruptly terminated two grants worth $796,500 for two of MADA's most significant projects.

The first project is a 36-month study of the various forms of and limitations to Arab political participation in Israel, and the second, another 36-month initiative, seeks to critically examine Israel's political and economic policy and practice and analyze the effects of Israeli colonialism on the political and economic realities of Palestinian women inside Israel.