(Updated March 24, 2026)
Our Foundation
We organize on the fundamental belief that the Palestinian people constitute an indivisible national unit—in historic Palestine and across the diaspora. Our stance is rooted in the historic injustice of the 1948 Nakba, the continuous displacement of Palestinians through the Zionist settler-colonial project, and the current, live-streamed genocide in Gaza. This genocide, along with the explicit statements from Zionist officials and the support of Western imperial powers (including Canada) demonstrates a clear intent to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people and further exposes the Zionist colonial-genocidal war machine. We stand in unconditional solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation, return, and self-determination.
Our Core Principles
These are the non-negotiable beliefs that guide all our actions and affiliations:
1. Palestinian Rights are Non-Negotiable. We affirm the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the Right of Return for all refugees and their descendants to their homes and properties, the Right to Self-Determination, and the Right to Resist their occupation and colonization by all means necessary.
2. Opposition to Zionism and Settler Colonialism. We recognize Zionism as the political ideology of a supremacist settler-colonial project, designed to displace and replace the indigenous Palestinian population. This is embodied by the 2018 Nation-State Law, the Jewish National Fund’s discriminatory land policies, the “Greater ‘Israel’ Project” and the ongoing genocide which is the logical culmination of a decades-long project of ethnic cleansing.
3. Anti-Racism and Principled Solidarity. We unequivocally oppose anti-Palestinianism, anti-Arab racism, anti-Jewish racism, Islamophobia, Jewish exceptionalism and the exploitation of Jewish suffering to suppress opposition and/or criticism of Zionism. We build solidarity across communities and call on all justice-loving people to join this struggle for liberation.
4. Anti-Imperialism and Internationalism. We oppose US-led global imperialist domination, including in the Arab region, that continues to economically profit through arming “Israel” and enabling the genocide in Gaza and throughout Palestine. We call out a system that is engineered for the plunder of land, labour, markets and resources—from the theft of Palestinian water and gas to the exploitation of a captive Palestinian workforce. It is enforced by comprador regimes like the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, and Egypt, which are sustained by foreign aid to police their own people and maintain a regional order that protects its Zionist military outpost, normalizes the occupation, ensuring the continent’s subservience to Western capital.
5. Support for Progressive Struggles. We support secular, democratic, and liberation movements in West Asia and North Africa, and stand in solidarity with progressive movements globally – including Indigenous land defenders, workers, unions, and all those fighting against oppression, reactionary forces, and foreign domination. We affirm our support to all resistance forces in the region, who are leading the struggle against the U.S.-Zionist schemes and domination.
Our Mission & Strategic Commitments
Our mission is to build a powerful, educated, and resilient Canadian base of solidarity that takes concrete action to realize our principles. We are committed to:
* Highlighting and denouncing the complicity of successive Canadian governments in Palestinian dispossession and ethnic cleansing, including their recent complicity in the genocide in Gaza. Canada played a pivotal role for over a century in Palestinian dispossession and contributed to the suffering and dismemberment of a whole people and nation.
* Education & Mobilization: To politically educate the Canadian public and mobilize them through campaigns, boycotts, and public actions that expose the nature of the Zionist settler-colonial project. Regardless of its national and/or geographic location, any company, organization, institution, or country that is empowering Zionist settler colonization, war crimes and apartheid is complicit in them, and is thereby subject to boycott, divestment and sanctions.
Recognizing the massive US involvement in the Zionist-led genocide against the Palestinian people by sending troops, military equipment and shielding Israel from accountability for its war crimes, we call for a general economic boycott against the US and against all countries complicit in this genocide, where attainable and possible.
* Exposing Injustice & Advocating for Resistance: To document, expose, and challenge all violations of Palestinian rights and rights of Palestinian political prisoners. We uphold the legitimacy of the Palestinian right to resist occupation and genocide by all means, including armed resistance, as enshrined in UN resolution A/RES/43/106 of Dec. 8, 1988 that “Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for their independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;”
* Building Principled Alliances: To coordinate and cooperate with organizations and individuals who share our unwavering commitment to liberation.
* Upholding the Right of Return: To center the right of return for Palestinian refugees as a fundamental, non-negotiable pillar of justice.
* Defending the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Canada: To actively advocate for and support Canadian individuals and organizations that face state repression, censorship, and the criminalization of dissent for standing with Palestine.
Organizational Structure
• The annual general membership meeting is responsible for policy making and determining the priorities, objectives and principles of the Association
• Decisions by the general membership are taken by majority vote, except for amending the Basis of Unity of the Association which needs a two-thirds majority.
• The Annual membership meeting shall elect a five, seven or nine member executive/steering committee to carry and implement the policies of the Association. Members of the Executive Committee commit to attend executive committee meetings regularly and to actively implement the tasks and decisions of the membership and the Executive Committee.
• Executive Committee decisions are taken by a majority vote.
• A general membership meeting shall be held annually, preferably in October. The executive or 20 members can call for an emergency general meeting at a time and place that will be decided by the Executive Committee.
• Membership is open to individuals who subscribe to, and work for, the objectives and principles of the Association, and who pay the required dues and assessments ($25 annually).
• Applications for new membership will be ratified by the Executive Committee and then approved by the Association membership at an annual general meeting by majority vote.