Statement carried in AlMayadeen English: Canadian Palestinian Association condemns global complicity in Gaza | Al Mayadeen English
Recently, there has been a flood of mainstream officials finally claiming to recognize the genocide in Gaza. To Bernie Sanders, to those UN officials and other Western politicians and personalities who recently discovered their morality…we acknowledge your late support but our souls are shrieking inside us, why didn’t you speak out sooner?… Read more
Statement carried in AlMayadeen English: Canadian Palestinian Association condemns global complicity in Gaza | Al Mayadeen English
Recently, there has been a flood of mainstream officials finally claiming to recognize the genocide in Gaza. To Bernie Sanders, to those UN officials and other Western politicians and personalities who recently discovered their morality…we acknowledge your late support but our souls are shrieking inside us, why didn’t you speak out sooner?… Read more
Check out what was happening 50 years ago in the Vancouver solidarity movement. The local Palestinian support group published 6 issues of “Palestine in Struggle”; the publication covered the visit of the PLO delegation to the Habitat conference in Vancouver, supported anti-imperialist liberation struggles from Angola to Yemen to the Polisario in Sahara, and highlighted solidarity with indigenous allies.
Thanks to our amazing archiving team for doing this work; there’s more to come as we sort through boxes of important saved documents!… Read more
43 years ago, Vancouver activists were protesting at the US Consulate against the Israeli genocide in Lebanon. These were the posters done up then – the photos, the anguish, the children…all identical to today in Gaza.
Israel must be stopped NOW! #EndGenocideNow
Palestinians have been telling the world about Israeli genocide since its inception! Check out this press clipping from June 1982.… Read more
Photo Gallery from the Aug. 23 Action (check out our IG for more photos and videos)
CANADIAN MEDIA COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE – BREAK THE SILENCE🚨
Come join us on August 23, 2025 for Anas al-Sharif, Wafa al-Udaini, Shireen Abu Akleh and all the Palestinian journalists assassinated by Israel for exposing its brutal crimes. Israel has murdered 238 journalists since Oct 8, 2023.… Read more
Let’s not fool ourselves or our supporters by pretending that the recent move by the Canadian government to conditionally “recognize the state of Palestine” in September bodes well (in any way) for the liberation of the Palestinian people. It does not. In fact, this flush of Western leaders recently making the same declaration are all part of a well-orchestrated maneuver to once again disenfranchise Palestinians, an Oslo 2.0. … Read more
Vancouver activists joined the international movement demanding that the French government free Georges Abdallah. They held a picket on July 14 outside the French consulate to highlight this demand.
After 40 years of unjust imprisonment, French authorities are once again delaying justice for Lebanese communist revolutionary Georges Abdallah!
His next court hearing is July 17 but the French state has repeatedly postponed his release, despite a judge already ordering his freedom in November 2024.… Read more
CPA activists and allies joined the June 14 Day of Action across the Lower Mainland, which included the first ever Abbotsford Scotiabank picket. This was a great inaugural action with support from passers-by, and lots of honks from busy traffic at the location.
And here are highlights from the ScotiaBank picket organized by BDS Vancouver and endorsed by Retired Teachers Divest at another location in Vancouver.… Read more
