Israel Killed 12,300 kids in Gaza but Canada’s Media Continues to Protect Israel
Drum roll, please. Today, I want to salute Canada’s media. It is largely because of you, and your coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, that the latest poll reveals approximately the same number of...
View ArticleTell Ministers Joly, Hussen, and Miller to Stop Genocide or Resign!
Canada has ignored repeated warnings from UN experts and the World Court on the risk of Israel committing genocide in Gaza, and Canada’s response to developments have even worsened the crisis. In...
View ArticleArms Embargo on Israel Now!: Canadians Ramp Up Pressure on Trudeau and Joly
As the UN is calling for an immediate arms embargo and reminding Canadian officials involved in arms exports that they may be “individually criminally liable for aiding and abetting any war crimes,”...
View ArticleAn Ode to Israel’s Genocide
Dear Friends and Fellow Activists, News of the horrors in Gaza seems to worsen by the day. I, like so many others, have found it increasingly difficult to absorb the horror. It is impossible to unsee...
View ArticleLawsuit Filed Against Canadian Government to Stop Arms Exports to Israel
A group of Canadian and Palestinian applicants have commenced legal proceedings in the Federal Court against the Canadian government to stop arms exports to Israel. The applicants are seeking a court...
View ArticleCivil Society Demands the Suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement
Respect for human rights is an essential element of the EU’s association agreements with partner countries. Article 2 states that “relations between the Parties, as well as all the provisions of the...
View ArticlePalestine Action Permanently Shutsdown Israeli Military Contractor Elbit...
Relentless direct action has secured another victory in the fight against Israel’s arms trade, as Elbit Systems are forced to sell their ‘Elite KL’ factory in Tamworth, England. The company had...
View ArticlePublic Sector Unions: Canada Must Suspend Arms Trade with Israel
As Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza, which has resulted in a devastating number of civilian deaths, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE),...
View ArticleApril 7: Six Months of Genocide in Gaza
The world has watched for six months as Palestinians are murdered, injured and displaced en masse by the Israeli occupation. Canada has aided and abetted this atrocity. Canadian arms deals with Israel...
View ArticleFrom World War II to Gaza: U.S. Labour Opposition to War and Fascism
At a labor press conference/rally on December 14 in front of the White House, Brandon Mancilla – child of Guatemalan immigrants and director of United Auto Workers (UAW) District 9 – announced the...
View ArticleToronto Labour Council Demands: End Arms Exports to Israel
WHEREAS solidarity with workers everywhere is a crucial part of trade unionism, and the workers’ struggle has no borders; and WHEREAS every day the Toronto & York Region Labour Council, its...
View ArticleDisclose, Divest, Boycott Israel: Student Encampments in Canada for Palestine
F4P in Solidarity With Student Encampments Faculty for Palestine (F4P) wholeheartedly supports the student encampments for Palestine at universities across the settler colonial state of Canada and...
View ArticleIsrael: State of Denial
The lies. The packs of lies – deliberate, filthy, and deadly. And they keep going. As if the world owes Israel and its “most moral army in the world” something – after it massacred more than 35,000...
View ArticleBreak the Silence, Free Congo
There are deadly links between war, the plunder of resources, and climate breakdown. Blood red stains follow their concurrence across the map from Iraq, to Amazonia, to Gaza – no inhabited continent...
View ArticleSde Teiman Camp: Israel’s ‘Guantanamo’
The Israeli occupation authorities acknowledged early last month [June/24] the martyrdom, in the Sde Teiman camp, of 36 detainees from the Gaza Strip. These deaths demand that we focus on the grave...
View ArticleNine Months of Genocide in Gaza
This week marks nine months of Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people in Gaza. The latest official estimates indicate that over 38,000 Palestinians have been killed so far, though...
View ArticleFrom Genocide in Gaza to Decolonizing Palestine
Toward A Democratic State For All Between the River And The Sea While our attention and hearts are focused on Gaza, civil society cannot abandon the wider fight for Palestinian rights and a better...
View ArticleNATO Turns Global and Expands Theatres of Escalation
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of 32 Western countries has formally declared its security interests to be global, despite its title and founding mandate as a transatlantic security...
View ArticleThe New Chutzpah: Canceling Palestinian Solidarity in Canada
Many of you know that the Yiddish word chutzpah means extreme self-confidence or audacity. It is defined here: a young man murders his parents then throws himself on the mercy of the court because...
View ArticleScholasticide: Erasing Memory, Silencing Dissent, and Waging War on Education...
What sets Israel’s war on Gaza apart is not only its violent military operations, marked by the indiscriminate killing of women and children, but also its relentless assault on dissent, criticism, and...
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