Category: Events

Upcoming and past events organized or sponsored by the Canada Palestine Association.

June 6 Film & Discussion

Join us for food, film, and a discussion on how the Naksa still shapes the liberation struggle today.

šŸ“… 6 June 2026 – At 6 PM
šŸ“ 1803 E 1st Avenue, Vancouver

In Arabic, ā€œNaksaā€ means setback. In June 1967, Israel, as a result of the six day war, occupied the West Bank, Gaza, the Syrian Golan Heights, and the Egyptian Sinai. A new wave of Palestinians were forced across the Jordan River into overcrowded UN run camps, joining families already displaced in 1948. This event reshaped the region and forged the conditions for a new kind of resistance.

Annemarie Jacirā€™s film When I Saw You takes us right into that moment. The film follows Tarek, a young boy displaced by the Naksa, who canā€™t understand why he canā€™t go home. He runs away from a refugee camp and finds himself among Palestinian fedayeen (fighters) preparing to cross back.

Don’t drink with Genocide!

  • Great week of action to tell the BC Government we refuse to be complicit in their war crimes.
    Activists were out in several locations across the province to demand the immediate deshelving of all Israeli wines.
    Donā€™t drink with genocide, Donā€™t drink with apartheid!
    More to come, stay tuned.
  • (Video via Jase Tanner, Special thanks to Solidarity Notes Labour Choir)

BC Gov’t must deshelve all Israeli wines and end its war profiteering!

**(Organize a picket in your own neighbourhood andĀ let us know about your action. Update: Ban Israeli Wine rally also happening on Sat May 9th 3-5pm at the BC Government Liquor store. 209 Anderson St, Nelson.)

Lets pressure the provincial government to finally end its complicity in war crimes. Selling Israeli wines is actively aiding and abetting a state committing genocide.
For Nakba78, join us to demand that the BC Government immediately deshelve Israeli wines. Eighteen years of war profiteering off Palestinian and Arab dispossession is shameful!

May 15, 4 pm
BC Liquor Store, 1520 Commercial Dr., Vancouver
(After the picket, join the Nakba78 Rally at Grandview Park at 5:30 pm)

Our first campaign launch in 2008 coincided with Nakba60 and that connection was the foundation of our public statement. The statement, endorsed by a wide variety of both local and international groups, read:

ā€œOn this 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the Israeli government has announced plans to ā€˜rebrandā€™ its 60 years of dispossession and ethnic cleansing. Here in B.C., the focus of this ā€˜rebrandingā€™ is the promotion of wines under an Israeli label in B.C. liquor storesā€¦

We say 60 years of ā€˜rebrandingā€™ is enough; 60 years of dispossession, exile and the destruction of a whole nation are enough. Send this message to the Israeli government, and to our local and national politicians.”

May 2008 Picket

More info here: https://cpavancouver.org/boycottisraeliwines-campaign/

April 17 Prisoners Day Gallery

Great photo and video highlights from the rally and march in ā€œVancouverā€ to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day. The prisoners are our compass and they are supported by all of the Palestinian national collective.
Check out clips of the speech by CPA chair where he details how a million Palestinians, 20% of the population in the West Bank and Gaza, have been through the Israeli jail system.
(Photos from @horizontal.deer, video from CPA Instagram)