Month: June 2010

Open Letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper Regarding Israeli Piracy

By Kevin Neish, Farooq Burney and Rifat Audeh. Although not CPA members, we are publishing their open letter on our website on their behalf.

We are writing to express our outrage and indignation over our government’s despicable silence on what took place in the Mediterranean Sea on May 31, 2010. We are referring, of course, to the piracy, murder and kidnappings by Israel against the Turkish humanitarian aid ship in general, and the actions against the Canadians on the ship in particular.… Read more

Letter to the Editor of the Ottawa Citizen Regarding the “Haters’ Test”

In response to the Ottawa Citizen’s attack on NDP MP Libby Davies
By Hanna Kawas

The Ottawa Citizen “Haters’ test” http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Haters+test/3139300/story.html, published June 11, 2010 is misleading, lacking in historic facts and crudely apologizes for Israeli occupation and discrimination. I am going to burden you with some documentation and references the Ottawa Citizen editors did not want to bother with.

Before 1948, there was no state of Israel.… Read more

Eyewitness Report: Israeli Massacre on Gaza Freedom Flotilla

A Public Forum With Flotilla Survivor Kevin Neish

Date: Friday, June 18, 2010
 Time: 7:00pm
 Location: Vancouver Public Library (Central Branch), Alice McKay Room
350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Free admission. Donations will be collected and all proceeds will go the next Freedom Flotillas.

For more information email [email protected] or phone Omar Shaban 604-379-4050

Sponsored by:

  • Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign (BIAC)
  • Canadian Islamic Congress
  • Canada Palestine Association
  • Canada Palestine Support Network
  • Independent Jewish Voices (IJV)
  • Jews for a Just Peace
  • No One Is Illegal
  • Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) UBC
  • StopWar.ca
… Read more

Gaza Freedom Flotilla Global Day of Action

Rally and March
 Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010
 Time: 1:00 p.m.
 Location: Vancouver Art Gallery (Georgia Side)
750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC

Facebook Event Link: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=118805384828639

On Saturday, June 5, human rights and community organizations will mobilize to join an emergency Global BDS Day of Action called by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC). In Vancouver, join us to protest the fatal attacks by apartheid Israel on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip (please see full BNC call-out at:
http://bdsdayofaction.net/2010/06/02/emergency-bds-day-of-action-june-5th-2010/… Read more