The Coalition Against Israel’s War Crimes delivered a letter on October 28 to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration asking him to prohibit Ariel Sharon from entering Canada pursuant to section 35 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), which renders individuals guilty of committing war crimes or crimes against humanity inadmissible for entry. Sharon is scheduled to speak on November 14 at the United Jewish Communities 2005 General Assembly being held in Toronto and one of the invited speakers is Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.… Read more
Update Concerning VanCity’s Reversal of their Decision Against B.C. Market
Dear Friends:
We are pleased to tell you that VanCity has reversed its decision regarding closing the business account of B.C. MARKET. David Mowat, their CEO, personally informed us that the decision had resulted from a misunderstanding and also offered an apology for what had happened.
Therefore, we consider the matter resolved. We would like to thank all those people who took the time to write or phone and express their concerns about this incident.… Read more
Open Letter to Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Irwin Cotler
The Honourable Irwin Cotler Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Mr. Cotler:
It has came to our attention that Retired Israeli Colonel Zeev Raz, who led the illegal Israeli aggression against Iraq in 1981 and destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor, will be in Vancouver to speak at Temple Shalom on September 17, 2005.
Canada and the UN condemned this terrorist raid that endangered the lives of the Iraqi civilian population and encroached on the sovereignty of a UN member state.… Read more
Open Letter – Discriminatory Policies of Vancity Towards Arab-Canadians
Following is an open letter sent to VanCity credit union in Vancouver. If you agree that their actions are discriminatory and outrageous, please let them know.
Email: VanCity Board of Directors [email protected]
Phone/Fax: VanCity Branch 17 Financial Services Manager Tel: 604-877-7171 or Branch Manager Tel: 604-877-7170 Fax: 604-877-7917
(Please c.c. the chair of the Vancity Community Foundation, Tim Louis [email protected], the body mandated “to develop relationships with ….… Read more
Open Letter to the Canadian Arab Federation
We do not need to prove our loyalty!
We were alarmed and shocked when we read your weekly Bulletins July 22 and July 29, 2005. We had thought that forming “Canadians for Jerusalem” to defend the Canadian Government’s position had been an isolated incident, but it seems to us that official CAF policy is sinking further into a policy of collaboration and subjugation to the Canadian establishment.… Read more
CKNW: It is not Balance, it is Dishonesty
Israeli Ambassador given double time on Vancouver Radio Station
July 18, 2005
Peter Warren
Bill Good Show, CKNW
Dear Mr. Warren:
I wish to register my outrage at the way I was dealt with this morning on the Bill Good show. When I was contacted by your producer, I was told that the Israeli ambassador would be on from 9 – 9:30 am and then I would follow with another segment from 9:30 to 10:00 to give the Palestinian perspective.… Read more
Correspondence with CRTC, CBSC, and Global Television Regarding Jenin: Massacring the Truth
Scroll to the bottom of this post to download PDFs of additional correspondence between Hanna Kawas and Global Television.
Original letter by Hanna Kawas and the automated response from the CRTC:
Global TV ran a show called “Jenin, massacring the truth” on Aug. 11 from 10:00-11:00pm.
The show is one sided, unbalanced, unfactual, and massacres humanity and morality.
This show is total Israeli propaganda; it tries to minimize the war crimes commited by the Israeli occupation forces (Israeli Defence Forces “IDF”) againt the Palestinian civilian population, and by doing so Global became complicit in these war crimes.… Read more
Open Letter to Prime Minister Paul Martin (2)
Silence On Israeli Terrorism Is Complicity
By Hanna Kawas
The Right Honourable Paul Martin
Prime Minister of Canada
Dear Prime Minister:
Over the past ten days, 112 Palestinians were killed, including five just today. So far we did not hear any condemnation from Canada, as a party to the Fourth Geneva Convention, regarding this Israeli terorrism directed against the civilian population of the Palestinian territories.… Read more
Message to the American Public During the 2004 Elections
By Hanna Kawas, Chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association, who was born in Bethlehem in 1948,
the year of the Palestinian Nakba. The following message was sent to the American people.
Open Message from a Bethlehemite Palestinian to the American people
including our Arab American community members
You are in the midst of a massive brain-washing campaign conducted by the institutions of the US government, the mainstream media and the multinational corporations.… Read more
Letter to the Editor, The Globe and Mail
By Gary Keenan
Dear editor:
Barbara Hodgson’s excellent letter (More than a Memory, Oct. 8) regarding renowned British Arabist Gertrude Bell brings to mind the fact that the Middle East may well have been spared several decades of violence, death, and destruction if British Prime Minister Lloyd George had heeded her wise words regarding the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
While serving with British intelligence in Cairo, Ms.… Read more