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CPA 2025 Year in Review

Over the past year, CPA has grown and strengthened both its activist base…

Over the past year, CPA has grown and strengthened both its activist base and its organizational structure. We now have two active and highly functional subcommittees – BDS Vancouver and the Basil AlAraj committee, that carry on educational and public actions that support the Boycott Israel and the Palestinian prisoners movements. There is also a media/communications committee under development. Our executive has expanded in number and is increasing its scope of work to include archival postings and our legal defense fund. One of our main foci this year has been to strongly expose and highlight the dangers of pandering to the phony “two-state solution” and the Oslo 2.0 project (which regrettably obliged us to withdraw from the Canadian BDS Coalition*).
Respect to all the CPA activists and allies who continue to stand with Palestine.
We will never stop struggling for a Free Palestine, from the river to the sea!

Events and Campaigns: 

CPA Statements:

  1. CBC is complicit in genocide! January 3, 2025
  2. BDS Vancouver marks 10 years January 28, 2025
  3. Solidarity Statement with MMIWG February 13, 2025
  4. Support our legal defense fund! February 19, 2025
  5. Scotiabank increases their complicity in war profiteering! March 6, 2025
  6. The Delusionary Appeal of Electoral Politics March 21, 2025
  7. Vancouver holds first Palestine Land Day Protest 1976 March 25, 2025
  8. Demand to know where politicians stand – for justice or for genocide! April 3, 2025
  9. #IVotePalestine #IVoteAgainstGenocide  April 9, 2025
  10. Those Complicit in Genocide will be held Accountable!  April 22, 2025
  11. The “two-state” solution is a vehicle for normalization! It’s past time to call out the PA! May 4, 2025
  12. Scotiabank Preys on Genocide May 9, 2025
  13. Canada’s false diplomacy cannot hide its complicity in genocide! August 1, 2025
  14. Yes, we are bitter! September 20, 2025
    Canadian Palestinian Association condemns global complicity in Gaza | Al Mayadeen English September 22, 2025

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(all likes are generated organically; on principle, we refuse to pay for ads or for posts promotions)  

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Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: 
BDS Vancouver/Canada Palestine Association (3,425 Followers)  
Instagram – cpavancouver (6,839 followers) 
Instagram- Basil AlAraj Committee (1206 followers)

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*(Both CPA and BDS Vancouver were obliged to withdraw from the Canadian BDS Coalition in May of this year due to serious contradictions within the BDS Coalition coordinating committee, that developed over the VotePalestine campaign. We were shocked to discover that not only did VotePalestine promote “recognizing the state of Palestine” as a core demand, but also that a majority of the Coalition’s coordinating committee (Just Peace Advocates JPA, Ontario Palestinian Rights Association OPRA, Palestinian and Jewish Unity PAJU) were amongst the initiating endorsers.
We viewed this as not only a political error, but also a violation of the Coalition’s basis of unity which stated: “We recognize that Zionism is a supremacist ideology which has created a settler colonial state in historic Palestine…We support the establishment of a secular democratic State of Palestine in the historic land of Palestine…”
We noted that promoting recognition of THE state of Palestine at this time meant in practice endorsing Oslo, the PA and the bankrupt two-state solution. Canadian PM Carney’s later statement regarding a “Zionist Palestinian state” aptly proved our point. Our efforts to have this issue brought to a membership meeting were sidelined in an undemocratic manner; ultimately, we were left with no choice but to leave the coalition.)

Photo highlights from Free Ahmad Sa’adat week of action

January 15-22 each year marks an international week of action for Ahmad Sa’adat, the general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who has been imprisoned since January 15, 2002. Initially arrested and imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority, he was abducted from the PA prison in Jericho by Zionist forces in 2006 and eventually given a 30 year sentence.

Emergency rally to demand action for UK hunger strikers

On December 22, 2025, activists gathered in front of the British Consulate in “Vancouver” to stand in global solidarity with Palestine Action hunger strikers imprisoned in Britain. Our rally was a response to the urgent and escalating health crisis faced by these political prisoners.

We delivered a letter to the Consulate demanding immediate action from the British government, and publicly read out the prisoners’ five demands:
· An end to state censorship
· Immediate bail
· Fair trials
· Deproscription of Palestine Action
· Shutting down Elbit Systems
More info here: Instagram

#BoycottScotiabank photo gallery

Photo highlights from the powerful weekend of action 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!
Multiple pickets at five different locations across BC telling ScotiaBank and its global asset fund to stop investing in genocide.
We won’t rest till they divest! Completely!
Actions for Int’l Day of Solidarity with Palestine #BoycottScotiabank

(Highlights of Days 1 and 2 from across BC)
(Final day of the powerful weekend of action!)