Category: Featured
State repression, and the spirit of resistance!
By Marion Kawas
On October 15, 2024, both the Canadian and US governments listed Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network as a “terrorist” group and ratified their years-long persecution of both the organization and its representatives. The banning of Samidoun, however, was not an isolated incident; rather, it falls into the broadening and still ongoing harassment of pro-Palestine advocates in many Western countries.… Read more
The facade of the “two-state solution”
Presentation by CPA Chair Hanna Kawas at a meeting in Vancouver on October 16, 2025 entitled: “Managing Occupation Through the Politics of Recognition”
Yes, we are bitter!
Statement carried in AlMayadeen English: Canadian Palestinian Association condemns global complicity in Gaza | Al Mayadeen English
Recently, there has been a flood of mainstream officials finally claiming to recognize the genocide in Gaza. To Bernie Sanders, to those UN officials and other Western politicians and personalities who recently discovered their morality…we acknowledge your late support but our souls are shrieking inside us, why didn’t you speak out sooner?… Read more
Statement carried in AlMayadeen English: Canadian Palestinian Association condemns global complicity in Gaza | Al Mayadeen English
Recently, there has been a flood of mainstream officials finally claiming to recognize the genocide in Gaza. To Bernie Sanders, to those UN officials and other Western politicians and personalities who recently discovered their morality…we acknowledge your late support but our souls are shrieking inside us, why didn’t you speak out sooner?… Read more
August 23 CBC Protest
Photo Gallery from the Aug. 23 Action (check out our IG for more photos and videos)
CANADIAN MEDIA COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE – BREAK THE SILENCE🚨
Come join us on August 23, 2025 for Anas al-Sharif, Wafa al-Udaini, Shireen Abu Akleh and all the Palestinian journalists assassinated by Israel for exposing its brutal crimes. Israel has murdered 238 journalists since Oct 8, 2023.… Read more
Canada’s false diplomacy cannot hide its complicity in genocide!
Let’s not fool ourselves or our supporters by pretending that the recent move by the Canadian government to conditionally “recognize the state of Palestine” in September bodes well (in any way) for the liberation of the Palestinian people. It does not. In fact, this flush of Western leaders recently making the same declaration are all part of a well-orchestrated maneuver to once again disenfranchise Palestinians, an Oslo 2.0. … Read more
Free Georges Abdallah
Vancouver activists joined the international movement demanding that the French government free Georges Abdallah. They held a picket on July 14 outside the French consulate to highlight this demand.
After 40 years of unjust imprisonment, French authorities are once again delaying justice for Lebanese communist revolutionary Georges Abdallah!
His next court hearing is July 17 but the French state has repeatedly postponed his release, despite a judge already ordering his freedom in November 2024.… Read more
Why I Hate Zionism and Will Never Forgive its Disciples
On June 6, 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and the capital city of Beirut under the guise of destroying the PLO Palestine Liberation Organization. This eventually led to the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which occurred even after PLO forces had left Beirut. Protection of Palestinian civilians had been part of the deal negotiated with the US envoy at the time, Philip Habib, but such US guarantees were not worth the paper they were written on. … Read more
Scotiabank Reinvests in Genocide!
Also published in Mondoweiss: After slow divestment, Canada’s Scotiabank quietly reinvests in Israel’s genocide – Mondoweiss
For almost two years, activists in Vancouver and across Canada have been out on the streets demanding that Scotiabank divest completely from Israeli company Elbit Systems. Many sectors became involved in the campaign, from solidarity groups to artists, all to demand an end to this unholy alliance of a big bank with an Israeli arms company actively fueling genocide. … Read more
The “two-state” solution is a vehicle for normalization! It’s past time to call out the PA!
After 18 months of live-streamed genocide, after 18 months of useless Western “ceasefire” promises, we must be clear on the principles of genuine liberation. We must re-assess our tactics and be sure that our solidarity work is actually advancing the interests of the Palestinian people and working towards a future free of Zionist settler colonialism and US imperial meddling.
For some time, we have stated that calling for recognition of THE state of Palestine means nothing more than endorsing Oslo, the corrupt PA and the bankrupt two-state solution.… Read more