Our #IVotePalestine questionnaire* started in 2019 and continues this year, as an independent campaign committed to presenting the difficult issues that reflect the struggles and challenges of the Palestinian people. We do not believe that any single election in Canada will substantially change policy on Palestine, but we do see the educational value in bringing these issues to the public and highlighting the overwhelming Canadian complicity in genocide. Yes, go to candidates in your riding and raise these crucial points, but also stay focused on organizing in our communities, on grassroots activism and on stepping up direct action campaigns going forward.
#IVotePalestine #IVoteAgainstGenocide
*(Distinct from VotePalestine, started in 2021)
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The questionnaire
The past eighteen months have witnessed a horrific escalation of Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people that started in 1948. It has been estimated that, within the first seven months alone, 7-9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip had perished.
This current genocide has been documented by multiple UN agencies, the International Criminal Court and Human Rights Council, as well as human rights organization including Amnesty International, Human Right Watch and Doctors without Borders.
- The Canadian government denies that Israel is an Apartheid state and further refuses to recognize that it is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.
Q- Would your party recognize Israel as an apartheid state that is committing war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people? And would you call for severing relations with Israel on all levels including diplomatically, economically, politically and militarily?
- The Canadian government has been directly complicit in Israeli genocide, sending arms and special forces to support the Israeli genocide. The Genocide convention criminalizes “complicity, attempt, or incitement of its commission.”
Q- Do you support laying charges in Canadian and international courts against all those who are complicit in the Israeli genocide including former Prime Minister Trudeau and his cabinet, Canadians who joined the IDF and participated in the genocide and Zionists who were advocating for and supporting this genocide? Also, would you support arresting Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant if they enter Canada and hand them over to the International Criminal Court (ICC)?
- In a UN resolution cosponsored by Canada in 1949, Israel was admitted to the UN on the conditions that Israel implement resolutions of 29 November 1947 (the Partition Plan), of 11 December 1948 (the Palestinian right of return), and that Israel “accepts the obligations contained in the Charter”.
Israel has never implemented the above two resolutions, and committing genocide is definitely not one of Israel’s obligations under the UN Charter.
Q- For violating the terms of its admittance to the UN, would you call and support the expulsion of Israel from the UN?
- During 2002/2003, the Canadian Liberal government of the day added Hezbollah as well as the vast majority of the Palestinian resistance organizations to the “Terrorist List”. Six months ago, the Palestinian advocacy network Samidoun was added to this list after intense pressure for years by Zionist organizations. Any concrete charges against Samidoun were trumped-up; however, according to the official listing, we should note that Samidoun was also accused of holding the political belief that “Israel and Zionism are the greatest danger to the Middle East and the world.”
Q- Would you recognize the Palestinian resistance organizations as a national liberation movement struggling against settler colonialism and occupation? Would you support scrapping the terror list due to its deep flaws? Would you condemn the listing of Samidoun as a politically motivated act, aimed at targeting all advocates of Palestinian human and national rights?
- On March 8, 2025, former PM Justin Trudeau proudly announced “I am a Zionist”. With this, he promoted anti Palestinian racism and promoted anti-semitism by equating the fascist Zionist genocidal practices with the Jewish people. This racist ideology promotes hatred against the Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, Jewish people and all of humanity.
Q- Would you recognize Zionism as a supremacist settler colonialist movement, that can only survive with the support of western imperialist powers as proven by recent developments?