Check out what was happening 50 years ago in the Vancouver solidarity movement. The local Palestinian support group published 6 issues of “Palestine in Struggle”; the publication covered the visit of the PLO delegation to the Habitat conference in Vancouver, supported anti-imperialist liberation struggles from Angola to Yemen to the Polisario in Sahara, and highlighted solidarity with indigenous allies.
Thanks to our amazing archiving team for doing this work; there’s more to come as we sort through boxes of important saved documents!
43 years ago, Vancouver activists were protesting at the US Consulate against the Israeli genocide in Lebanon. These were the posters done up then – the photos, the anguish, the children…all identical to today in Gaza. Israel must be stopped NOW! #EndGenocideNow
Palestinians have been telling the world about Israeli genocide since its inception! Check out this press clipping from June 1982.
Join us again on August 28, 4 pm at 650 W. Georgia, Vancouver to tell ScotiaBank to stop investing in genocide and Palestinian death. ScotiaBank’s global asset fund (1832 Asset Management) declared in its latest SEC filing that it still holds 700,100 shares of Elbit Systems valued at $US314 million (as of June 30, 2025). More info: Scotiabank Reinvests in Genocide
Check out these videos and photos from the Aug. 28 action:
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. From Gaza to Turtle Island, colonial media hides genocide behind “both sides” headlines and state-approved silence.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2025 📍CBC (700 Hamilton St, Vancouver) ⏱️Starting from 12 pm. Drop by throughout the day.
Join us for every journalist killed, every Palestinian child buried without headlines, and every missing and murdered Indigenous woman Canada’s media erases.
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.
You need only to look at Carney’s statement and the document released by the UN meeting this week to see the trajectory of how this is supposed to unfold. An entity (we can’t call it a state) that must be demilitarized and is forbidden to decide who can run in its own elections. And, as has been detailed before, all of this is expected to occur with “mutual” recognition of Israel by those Arab states who have not yet done so and the eventual dismantling of UNRWA.
Both are full of fine-sounding phrases that have been heard before… “an independent, viable, and sovereign Palestinian state” or “achievement of a just solution to the Palestinian refugee issue”. Palestinians have been hearing such nice words for literally decades now, since Oslo was signed in 1993. But its a smokescreen as history has shown clearly, a smokescreen to cover further Israeli aggression, ethnic cleansing and now genocide.
And the timing of this new diplomatic flurry is particularly dastardly, as it seeks to cover up and distract attention from the horrors of the ongoing US-Israeli genocide and the complicity of most Western governments. Complicity like Canada’s ongoing arms shipments to Israel that were further highlighted in a new report out just this week.
We all want a progressive Canadian policy on Palestine, but this is not it. In past statements, we in CPA have been clear that legitimizing the corrupt Palestinian Authority was a dangerous and flawed policy and that the phoney “two-state” solution is a vehicle for normalization.
However, this will not be the first time that one of the US imperialist schemes won’t go according to plan; the people of the region will reject all of these infamies and determine their own destiny. —————————————————
Epilogue: Further clarity from Canadian PM Mark Carney, Sept. 21, 2025 in his official statement on Canada’s recognition of the state of Palestine: “Recognising the State of Palestine, led by the Palestinian Authority, empowers those who seek peaceful coexistence and the end of Hamas.” “The Palestinian Authority has provided direct commitments to Canada and the international community on much-needed reforms, including to fundamentally reform its governance, to hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part, and to demilitarize the Palestinian state. Canada will intensify efforts to support the Palestinian Authority’s implementation of this reform agenda, on which progress has already been made.”
