My Moral Compass Lies Buried Under the Rubble in Gaza

For years, I have struggled to understand the misguided liberal Zionists who refuse to acknowledge the full and equal humanity of Palestinians. But this latest genocide in Gaza has finished me…I no longer have any energy or motivation to spend on what now seems to have been, in most cases, a futile effort. 

Especially those in western countries, who pontificate from their positions of elite privilege, about supporting Palestinian rights, but only when Palestinians can be viewed as victims or helpless people deserving of “our charity”. … Read more

Vancouver Events 4 Palestine, Defense Fund

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Rally/Vigil October 19th, Vancouver City Hall: We Stand with Palestine

Join us on Thursday October 19th at 6 pm to show that Vancouverites stand with Palestine and to mourn with Gaza as they bury the most recent victims of this ongoing genocide. Just today, Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza City, massacring hundreds (estimate so far is 800), including refugees taking shelter there.

Mayor Ken Sim has been vocal about his support for Israel since October 7th (and before) and also been smearing Palestinian supporters as “terrorists”.… Read more

Photo Gallery Oct. 13: All Out 4 Palestine!

Despite all the intimidation from politicians, the mayor, the police and the media, Vancouver showed up for Palestine tonight! Over one thousand people came out on short notice to demand freedom and justice for Palestinians, as yet another genocide is happening in real time in Gaza.

The rally included indigenous supporters and a broad cross-section of Vancouverites that rejected the dominant narrative trying to demonize all pro-Palestine support.… Read more

Vancouver Stands with Palestine

On October 9, over 500 people came out in the Vancouver rain to show their support with the Palestinian people and to highlight they will not be intimidated by the biased disinformation coming from Western politicians and the media. Multiple speakers at the rally, which was followed by a march thru the downtown, emphasized that the Palestinians have been struggling against a vicious settler colonial project for 75 years and that this is the root of the ongoing violence.… Read more

Edward Said: Special from Alternative Radio

Entitled Palestine: Memory, Inequality & Power, Alternative Radio has waived the fees for our supporters to download and listen to this show highlighting a 2003 lecture by Edward Said. This never-before-broadcast marks the 30th anniversary of Oslo and the 20th anniversary of Edward Said’s death on September 25, 2003.

As a Palestinian intellectual, Said brought his anti-colonial critique to bear on what he called “The Question of Palestine,” revealing Zionism as a colonial ideology and the Western liberal support of this as a part of its colonial heritage.… Read more

Photo Gallery Week of Action: Shame on ScotiaBank, #ShutElbitDown


Check out these highlights from the week of action to denounce Scotiabank for being the largest foreign investor in Israeli arms company Elbit Systems. Activists from Montreal to Vancouver to BC’s Fraser Valley were out on the streets to demand that Scotiabank stop investing in Israeli war crimes. We know Scotiabank is feeling the pressure; in Montreal, they called the police for the picket and in Vancouver (for the second time) the branch mysteriously closed early before the activists’ arrival.… Read more

Shame on Scotiabank, #ShutElbitDown Picket

Saturday, September 23, 2 pm
1750 Manitoba St., Vancouver (False Creek Branch)

Join us on September 23 to highlight the complicity of Scotiabank in funding the killing of Palestinians.
Scotiabank is the largest foreign investor in the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems; their asset fund has invested half a billion dollars in an arms company whose weapons are routinely used to rain death and destruction on Palestinians.… Read more

My Palestinian Mother-in-Law, and the Generation of Survivors

They succeeded in raising successive generations of Palestinians that remain attached to their land, to their culture, to their national identity. This is the real legacy of the Nakba survivors, the fact that their great-grandchildren are still fighting for, and dreaming of, a Free Palestine.

First published in Mondoweiss (by Marion Kawas)

My mother-in-law recently passed away at age 97 surrounded by her extended family.… Read more