Join us for a weekend of actions to demand that Scotiabank divest completely from Israeli arms company Elbit Systems and to mark the Nov. 29th International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people.
They’re feeling the heat, lets keep up the pressure!
ScotiaBank’s global asset fund (1832 Asset Management) declared in its latest SEC filing for Sept. 30, 2025 that it now holds 164,676 shares of Elbit Systems valued at $US83 million ($117 million Cdn.).… Read more
More Info: https://www.instagram.com/basilalarajcommittee
Some background:
Committee activists joined the international movement demanding that the French government free Georges Abdallah. There was a picket on July 14 outside the French consulate to highlight this demand. (Abdallah was finally released on July 25, 2025.)
The committee then held a day-long protest at CBC Vancouver headquarters on August 23, 2025. (photos below)
Finally, the committee has also been presenting multiple study/discussion group sessions on prisoners, emphasizing why they are the compass for the struggle.… Read more
By Marion Kawas
On October 15, 2024, both the Canadian and US governments listed Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network as a “terrorist” group and ratified their years-long persecution of both the organization and its representatives. The banning of Samidoun, however, was not an isolated incident; rather, it falls into the broadening and still ongoing harassment of pro-Palestine advocates in many Western countries.… Read more
Presentation by CPA Chair Hanna Kawas at a meeting in Vancouver on October 16, 2025 entitled: “Managing Occupation Through the Politics of Recognition”
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
