Report on Basil AlAraj Committee

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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

State repression, and the spirit of resistance!

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

Yes, we are bitter!

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

Palestine in Struggle: All 1975/76 issues digitized

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

Protesting Israeli genocide…then and now!

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

Aug. 28 ScotiaBank Picket

  • Join us again on August 28, 4 pm at 650 W. Georgia, Vancouver to tell ScotiaBank to stop investing in genocide and Palestinian death.
    ScotiaBank’s global asset fund (1832 Asset Management) declared in its latest SEC filing that it still holds 700,100 shares of Elbit Systems valued at $US314 million (as of June 30, 2025).
    More info: Scotiabank Reinvests in Genocide
Check out these videos and photos from the Aug.
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