On September 15, Canada Palestine Association and BDS Vancouver joined with Samidoun Vancouver and the Canadian BDS Coalition in presenting an information table at the Roger Waters Concert, that highlighted campaigns to deshelve Israeli apartheid wines and free Palestinian prisoners.
As Samidoun noted in their social media report: “With a large Freedom for Palestine banner — a message reinforced repeatedly by Roger Waters throughout the show — we were able to meet and talk with many concertgoers, receiving very positive feedback, and real interest in getting involved in the campaign for Palestinian liberation.”… Read more
#IVotePalestine: Vancouver Election Edition
UPDATE: Final Report #IVotePalestine Vancouver
The following questionnaire was sent to all civic organizations running in the Vancouver municipal election. Here are the responses so far.
1. Response from Christine Boyle, OneCity Vancouver
2. Response from Sean Orr, Vote Socialist: YES to all five questions. Vote Socialist also included some of the points raised in our questionnaire in their platform.… Read more
David Eby & BC NDP’s Failure on Israeli Apartheid Wines
Four years ago this month, the Boycott Israeli Wines campaign held a picket at the MLA office of BC Attorney General David Eby. At the time, his mandate included the BC Liquor Distribution Branch, which has been flaunting international law and Palestinians rights for over a decade by stocking Israeli apartheid wines linked to the illegal settlement enterprise.
Boycotting Israeli Products has a long history in Vancouver
In the late 1980s, Canada Palestine Association launched their first targeted consumer boycott of Achva Halva bars. Previous calls to boycott Israel had been more general and this campaign was to be the first of many consumer boycott initiatives. The campaign met with some success as several small businesses in the popular Commercial Drive area agreed to no longer carry the Halva bars, produced in an illegal Israeli settlement “industrial zone”.… Read more
Resources on Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany
- 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis
Paperback – Mar 16, 2010
By Lenni Brenner - Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany by Faris Yahya
Original Printing: Palestine Research Center, Beirut, Lebanon, January 1978
Second Printing: Palestine Distribution Center, Vancouver Canada, October 1980 - Zionism in the Age of Dictators
Copyright 1983 by Lenni Brenner - The Holocaust Victims Accuse
Copyright 1977 by Reb Moshe Shonfeld - Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation
By Tony Greenstein, October 2022
Check the Electronic Intifada podcast interviewing the author on his book “How Zionists collaborated with the Nazis”.
Celebrating the Art and Legacy of Betty Beeching
August 7, 2-5 pm, Trout Lake Community Centre
Betty Beeching, a long-time CPA member, passed away last summer. She and her late husband John were stalwarts of Palestinian activism for many decades, and their East Vancouver living room was the hub of meetings and receptions. If you are in East Vancouver on Aug. 7, please drop by and join us to celebrate Betty’s life and legacy, and see the original artwork done by both of them.… Read more
BC Govt: Pull Israeli Apartheid Wines
On June 28, Vancouver activists carried out another picket to promote the “Tell BC Govt to Pull Israeli Apartheid Wines” campaign. Hundreds of leaflets were distributed outside a BC liquor store and following that, the action moved to the office of MLA Melanie Mark. Several of her constituents were part of the picket and their concerns are being consistently sidelined by her office, despite her promise to meet with them.… Read more
June 28 Picket: No to Israeli Apartheid Wines!
June 28, 2 pm
BC Liquor Store, 1520 Commercial Dr., Vancouver
Join local Palestinian solidarity groups to hand out leaflets, get signatures on our action network letter, and promote the “Tell BC Govt to Pull Israeli Apartheid Wines” campaign.
Major international and Israeli human right groups, including Amnesty International, have determined that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid. Yet the BC government insists to carry Israeli wines in publicly owned BC liquor stores, even though most are linked to the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise.… Read more
ILPS Conference in Ottawa
ILPS in Canada 5th Assembly
June 1-4, 2022
Photo Gallery from #Nakba74 Actions in Vancouver, Victoria
On May 15, activists in BC came out to commemorate #Nakba74 and demand justice for Palestine. In Vancouver, several hundred people attended a rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Presentations included Solidarity Notes Choir; Columpa Bobb reading poetry for her late mom, indigenous poet Lee Maracle; and several speakers, including Palestinian-Canadian writer and journalist Khaled Barakat. The crowd then marched to the U.S.… Read more