ScotiaBank name is an embarrassment

The Giller Prize has dropped Scotiabank from their name, even though they are still their leading sponsor. We are not fooled by these phoney “rebranding” moves. No business as usual @gillerprize while their sponsor ScotiaBank still funds genocide! #ShameonScotiabank

This move by Giller Prize does show that the grassroots campaign against Scotiabank’s funding of Israeli genocide is bearing results. But as we said earlier: “Any funding of genocide is too much.… Read more

Aug. 16/17 Actions4Palestine

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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

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 Palestine, June 22

Photo Michael YC Tseng

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VANCOUVER: ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE FOR THE NATIONAL DIE-IN FOR GAZA! ** RALLY AND MARCH WILL FOLLOW DIE-IN
Saturday, June 22, 2 pm
Vancouver City Hall

More info: CanadaPalestineAssociation/BDS Vancouver (@cpavancouver) • Instagram photos and videosRead 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

Vancouver shows up for Rafah and Palestine!

Vancouver showed up in huge numbers for the emergency protest All Eyes On Rafah. We will defend Palestine until return and liberation.
Check out the great photos from Michael YC Tseng as well as our short videos.

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Stop Harassing anti-Genocide Advocates for Palestine!

Update – Individuals can sign on to this new statement from other groups: Open Letter in Support of Charlotte Kates and the Right to Free Expression

The repression against Palestinians and their supporters has been mounting across Canada in recent months; in every major city, there are cases of fraudulent charges (often later dropped) brought against activists who dare to clearly challenge the Zionist narrative. … Read more