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BC Gov’t must deshelve all Israeli wines and end its war profiteering!

**(Organize a picket in your own neighbourhood and tag us on IG about your action.)

Lets pressure the provincial government to finally end its complicity in war crimes. Selling Israeli wines is actively aiding and abetting a state committing genocide.
For Nakba78, join us to demand that the BC Government immediately deshelve Israeli wines. Eighteen years of war profiteering off Palestinian and Arab dispossession is shameful!

May 15, 4 pm
BC Liquor Store, 1520 Commercial Dr., Vancouver
(After the picket, join the Nakba78 Rally at Grandview Park at 5:30 pm)

Our first campaign launch in 2008 coincided with Nakba60 and that connection was the foundation of our public statement. The statement, endorsed by a wide variety of both local and international groups, read:

“On this 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the Israeli government has announced plans to ‘rebrand’ its 60 years of dispossession and ethnic cleansing. Here in B.C., the focus of this ‘rebranding’ is the promotion of wines under an Israeli label in B.C. liquor stores…

We say 60 years of ‘rebranding’ is enough; 60 years of dispossession, exile and the destruction of a whole nation are enough. Send this message to the Israeli government, and to our local and national politicians.”

May 2008 Picket

More info here: https://cpavancouver.org/boycottisraeliwines-campaign/

April 17 Prisoners Day Gallery

Great photo and video highlights from the rally and march in “Vancouver” to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day. The prisoners are our compass and they are supported by all of the Palestinian national collective.
Check out clips of the speech by CPA chair where he details how a million Palestinians, 20% of the population in the West Bank and Gaza, have been through the Israeli jail system.
(Photos from @horizontal.deer, video from CPA Instagram)

Hanna Kawas on Gorilla Radio Apr 15, on Palestinian prisoners and Canadian state repression

“Palestinians, both in Palestine and those among the diaspora, and their allies observed Palestine Land Day March 30th. It was the 50th commemoration of the 1976 murder of six people protesting the State theft of land in Galilee. Israel chose the same date to pass in its Knesset the ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists Law’, an infamous, one-sided statute codifying capital punishment (for some) while providing only limited recourse to appeal, or commutation. Worse, the “Gallows Law” is expected to apply equally to Palestinian children.
Hanna Kawas is chairperson of Vancouver’s Canada-Palestine Association. He’s too a long-time radio journalist whose program, Voice of Palestine had been a beacon for the city’s diaspora community, and others facing both Canadian state repression, and media marginalization…CPA will be front and centre this Friday, April 17th in Vancouver, at Creekside Park for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.”

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Hanna Kawas, John Helmer April 7/15, 2026