CPA Vancouver is outraged after reading a new statement from local activists in the Palestine movement, detailing more oppressive raids and arrests by RCMP and the Vancouver Police Dept VPD in recent days. Although once again no charges were laid, this pattern of intimidation and harassment of the Palestinian community and its supporters must be stopped and challenged.
We will not stand by nor remain silent and allow these blatant violations of our democratic rights to continue!… Read more
Category: CPA Statements
Open letters and statements to the public from the Canada Palestine Association.
Outraged by Excessive VPD Raid against pro-Palestine Advocate
To Mayor Ken Sim and VPD Chief Adam Palmer:
We are appalled and outraged by the excessive police action yesterday in Vancouver against local activist Charlotte Kates. We demand answers from the VPD and Ken Sim regarding this ridiculous ramping up of intimidation of pro-Palestine advocates. Why did you need the Emergency Response Team, decked out in full tactical gear with an armoured vehicle, to execute one search warrant in a quiet residential house currently inhabited by one woman?… Read more
CPA Condemns the Banning of Samidoun
Update for action alert: Send your letter here to Tell the Canadian Government to Stop Criminalizing Palestinian Advocacy – Action Network
The Canada Palestine Association condemns the Canadian government’s banning of Samidoun, a pro-Palestinian advocacy group. This move was done in conjunction with the US government and followed years of aggressive Zionist lobbying. It also represented “cheap politics” on the part of the current Liberal government, pandering to a right wing agenda and trying to score political points by literally squashing civil and democratic rights. … Read more
Scotiabank must divest completely from Elbit Systems!
- Any funding of genocide is too much. We will not rest until Scotiabank divests completely from Israeli war crimes.
On June 3, 2023 Vancouver activists held a march and flash action at Scotiabank headquarters, to help launch a national campaign to demand that Scotiabank divest from the Israeli arms maker Elbit Systems.
Since then, Scotiabank’s asset fund has reduced its half a billion dollar investment in Elbit 3 times, but still owns 1.44% of Elbit shares (worth approx.… Read more
Support the students at Vancouver Island University!
We stand in solidarity with the steadfast students of Vancouver Island University VIU. As they mark over 100 days of their encampment, VIU has filed a shameful lawsuit against their students instead of engaging in discourse to address their complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. More info on instagram from Palestine Solidarity Encampment PSE: VIU Palestine Solidarity Encampment (@pse_viu) • Instagram photos and videos
And support the students by donating to their legal defense fund Legal Support for VIU Students at the PSE (gofundme.com)… Read more
#StopTheJNF…We will not Stop, We will not Rest!
News broke earlier this week about Canada Revenue Agency’s intention to revoke the JNF’s charitable status. Although this was positive news, only brought on by enormous grassroots pressure, we must be cautious in considering this a victory. It is not yet a done deal and the JNF, in its own July 25 media statement, announced that they were appealing and “JNF Canada will continue its charitable activity including collecting and receipting donations and distributing funds while the legal challenge is before the Federal Court of Appeal…JNF Canada is continuing its work”.… Read more
Zionism and its lobby groups are bankrupt!
Future historians will study how a settler colonial regime, engaged in a vicious genocide, managed to promote the false narrative of themselves as the “victim”. Academics will marvel at how this narrative was adopted and parroted by Western politicians, institutions and the media, even those claiming to be progressive.
They will be dumbfounded how the U.S.-Israeli aggression on Gaza committed massacre after massacre, but would then escape criticism by rushing to recycle some debunked claims from nine months earlier.… Read more
Stand with Dania! Shame on our Political Leaders!
Are our politicians not ashamed of the way they all line up to “pile on” and attack whoever the major pro-Israel groups decide is the current persona non grata? And that they do this within just a few hours of each other? …Time and again we have seen this pattern of rushing to condemn some specific protestor or group. Our politicians, and many of the mainstream media, seem to have no shame when it comes to proving their loyalty to the Zionist project. … Read more
We won’t be intimidated, We will Stand Together!
New statement from BCCLA: 2024-06-11-BCCLA-Letter-to-VPD-regarding-Charlotte-Kates-1.pdf
Community efforts to defend activist Charlotte Kates have all emphasized that her recent arrest, and the pending “hate charges” against her, are clearly part of a larger on-going campaign to delegitimize and ban Samidoun. In fact, the leading pro-Israel lobby group Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) lists this issue as one of the priorities on their website. … Read more
Don’t lecture Palestinians about “violence”!
Expanded version of this article on AlMayadeen English: We will never stop advocating for Palestine! | Al Mayadeen English
Almost eight months of live-streamed genocide and still no end in sight. No meaningful moves by Western powers to halt the Israeli daily atrocities, in fact each day brings new evidence of their complicity. And the Zionist military just announced it wishes to continue for another seven months! … Read more