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
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
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
CPA activists and allies joined the June 14 Day of Action across the Lower Mainland, which included the first ever Abbotsford Scotiabank picket. This was a great inaugural action with support from passers-by, and lots of honks from busy traffic at the location.
And here are highlights from the ScotiaBank picket organized by BDS Vancouver and endorsed by Retired Teachers Divest at another location in Vancouver.… Read more
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
All out to tell ScotiaBank to end its war profiteering and divest from Israeli arms dealer Elbit Systems
Picket organized by BDS Vancouver, endorsed by @retiredteachersdivestbc
June 14, 1 pm
2208 Kingsway (at Gladstone), Vancouver
More info: Scotiabank Reinvests in Genocide! – Canada Palestine Association… Read more
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
