Emergency rally for Palestine: Defend Al-Quds/Jerusalem

All out for Palestine!!
Friday, Dec. 8, 5 pm
US Consulate, 1095 W. Pender, Vancouver, BC

In an atrocious move that has been 70 years in the making, Trump has declared moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. This is an escalation on a conflict that’s costing Palestinian lives on a genocidal level. It overturns decades of pseudo-attempts at the peace process and is yet another iteration of the colonial project of sewing sectarianism in the region to justify imperialist wars.… Read more

All out for Palestine!!
Friday, Dec. 8, 5 pm
US Consulate, 1095 W. Pender, Vancouver, BC

In an atrocious move that has been 70 years in the making, Trump has declared moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. This is an escalation on a conflict that’s costing Palestinian lives on a genocidal level. It overturns decades of pseudo-attempts at the peace process and is yet another iteration of the colonial project of sewing sectarianism in the region to justify imperialist wars.… Read more

Int’l Day of Solidarity with Palestinians, #BoycottHP Picket and Educational

November 29 marks the 40th anniversary of the Declaration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This year, join with groups in Vancouver and show solidarity with the Palestinians at two events.
Check out new video of Nov. 29th picket.

Nov. 24 Educational: Expose and Oppose Corporate Complicity with Israeli War Crimes 7 pm, Centre for Socialist Education, 706 Clark Dr.… Read more

November 29 marks the 40th anniversary of the Declaration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This year, join with groups in Vancouver and show solidarity with the Palestinians at two events.
Check out new video of Nov. 29th picket.

Nov. 24 Educational: Expose and Oppose Corporate Complicity with Israeli War Crimes 7 pm, Centre for Socialist Education, 706 Clark Dr.… Read more

Air Canada Terminates their Main Contract with Israel Aerospace Industries

Canadian BDS Coalition Declares Partial Victory in #AirCanadaComplicity Campaign

On November 2, 2017, in a surprise development, the Canadian BDS Coalition was able to declare partial victory in their #AirCanadaComplicity campaign. Following is the official statement that was released by the Coalition wherein they thanked the many grassroots supporters both in Canada and around the world that endorsed the Open Letter campaign; they also pledged to continue to pressure Air Canada to halt any remaining complicity with Israeli war crimes.… Read more

Canadian BDS Coalition Declares Partial Victory in #AirCanadaComplicity Campaign

On November 2, 2017, in a surprise development, the Canadian BDS Coalition was able to declare partial victory in their #AirCanadaComplicity campaign. Following is the official statement that was released by the Coalition wherein they thanked the many grassroots supporters both in Canada and around the world that endorsed the Open Letter campaign; they also pledged to continue to pressure Air Canada to halt any remaining complicity with Israeli war crimes.… Read more

Boycott HP, Shop Apartheid-Free Campaign in Vancouver

Second picket held on Oct. 14, 2017, Vancouver.
Photos from the action, more on Facebook event page.
hp1hp

Vancouver launches the Boycott HP campaign with an informational picket on August 26, 2017 outside Best Buy.
Hewlett Packard companies play a key role in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. They provide technology, equipment and services to the Israeli military and government, including the ID card system that underpin Israel’s apartheid policies and its movement restrictions for Palestinians.… Read more

Second picket held on Oct. 14, 2017, Vancouver.
Photos from the action, more on Facebook event page.
hp1hp

Vancouver launches the Boycott HP campaign with an informational picket on August 26, 2017 outside Best Buy.
Hewlett Packard companies play a key role in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. They provide technology, equipment and services to the Israeli military and government, including the ID card system that underpin Israel’s apartheid policies and its movement restrictions for Palestinians.… Read more

Canada Contravenes The Fourth Geneva Convention

Following is the position of the Canada Palestine Association-Vancouver, sent to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency regarding their reversal on the issue of labelling Israeli settlement wines.

Thank you for clarifying the Canadian government position on the Palestinian occupied territories. And thank you for clarifying that according to the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, Israeli territory includes the Palestinian occupied territories.… Read more

Following is the position of the Canada Palestine Association-Vancouver, sent to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency regarding their reversal on the issue of labelling Israeli settlement wines.

Thank you for clarifying the Canadian government position on the Palestinian occupied territories. And thank you for clarifying that according to the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, Israeli territory includes the Palestinian occupied territories.… Read more

Protest 50 Years of Israeli Military Occupation at the JNF Gala

Video highlights of Protest

Sunday, June 4 at 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Four Seasons Hotel, 791 West Georgia St. at Howe, Vancouver
Facebook event

Protest against 50 Years of Brutal Israeli Military Occupation.
Protest against Illegal Israeli annexation and apartheid.
Protest against the JNF and its Racist Policies.
Protest against Canadian and US complicity in Israeli war crimes.
Protest against the JNF tax-deductible status.
Read more

Video highlights of Protest

Sunday, June 4 at 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Four Seasons Hotel, 791 West Georgia St. at Howe, Vancouver
Facebook event

Protest against 50 Years of Brutal Israeli Military Occupation.
Protest against Illegal Israeli annexation and apartheid.
Protest against the JNF and its Racist Policies.
Protest against Canadian and US complicity in Israeli war crimes.
Protest against the JNF tax-deductible status.
Read more

Canadian BDS Coalition Statement on Student Activism

The Canadian BDS Coalition congratulates the Kings BDS Network at the University of Western Ontario and the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at the University of British Columbia

At King’s University College at University of Western Ontario, 76% of the students who cast a vote in a recent referendum supported their student council in lobbying the King’s administration to boycott and divest from companies complicit in human rights violations against Palestinians.… Read more

The Canadian BDS Coalition congratulates the Kings BDS Network at the University of Western Ontario and the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at the University of British Columbia

At King’s University College at University of Western Ontario, 76% of the students who cast a vote in a recent referendum supported their student council in lobbying the King’s administration to boycott and divest from companies complicit in human rights violations against Palestinians.… Read more

Is Tunisian Security Complicit in the Murder of Palestinian Leaders?

What are the connections and similarities between the assassinations of Mohammed Zawahri and Abu Jihad?
Article published by the Palestine Chronicle.

On Dec. 15, 2016, Tunisian Mohammad al-Zawahri, a Hamas leader and flight engineer specializing in unmanned aerial vehicles, was assassinated in the Tunisian city of Sfax. This operation bore eerie similarities to another assassination 28 years earlier of prominent Palestinian leader and high-ranking Fateh official Khalil Al Wazir (popularly known as Abu Jihad).… Read more

A Palestinian Christian Response to Cancelling the Town Hall BDS Meeting, Calgary‏

Open letter to the Unitarian Church of Calgary

Dear Reverend Debra Faulk,
Dear Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Church of Calgary,

Your cancellation of the Town Hall meeting for Oct. 27, 2016, that had been booked by Calgary Friends of the Green Party of Canada BDS Policy, was both distressing and disappointing and ultimately, an act of complicity in my peoples’ dispossession.… Read more

Open letter to the Unitarian Church of Calgary

Dear Reverend Debra Faulk,
Dear Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Church of Calgary,

Your cancellation of the Town Hall meeting for Oct. 27, 2016, that had been booked by Calgary Friends of the Green Party of Canada BDS Policy, was both distressing and disappointing and ultimately, an act of complicity in my peoples’ dispossession.… Read more

Teach-in: Boycott and Divest from G4$

Friday, November 4 at 6:30 PM – 9 PM
706 Clark Dr, Vancouver, BC V5L 3J1, Canada
Facebook Event

G4$ is the world’s largest security company and third largest private sector employer, profiting from war and occupation, mass incarceration of oppressed people and development aggression across the planet. They have a large contract providing ‘security services’ for the Israeli prisons, the Apartheid Wall and at occupation check-points.… Read more

Friday, November 4 at 6:30 PM – 9 PM
706 Clark Dr, Vancouver, BC V5L 3J1, Canada
Facebook Event

G4$ is the world’s largest security company and third largest private sector employer, profiting from war and occupation, mass incarceration of oppressed people and development aggression across the planet. They have a large contract providing ‘security services’ for the Israeli prisons, the Apartheid Wall and at occupation check-points.… Read more