What to do if you are unable to convince your peers to vote for apartheid? Sue them.
What would Canada be like if it were a Christian state in the same sense that Israel is a Jewish state?
Roger Waters offers his solidarity to student activists at McGill University after B’nai Brith announced they would help sue the school over a newly adopted Palestine solidarity policy.
Irwin Cotler, Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, has long been an aggressive proponent of Israeli apartheid. But an upcoming speech at Ariel University is igniting controversy and calls for him to withdraw.
FIFA says it wants to make football “accessible and inclusive.” But Israel is criminally denying Palestine access to the sport. FIFA should follow the anti-Israel-apartheid petition launched by the Canadian group Just Peace Advocates and affirm: Countries that systemically violate human rights are not allowed to play in FIFA matches. Respecting that means honoring Palestinians’ right to live, play and enjoy soccer free from Israeli oppression.
The new Legal Centre for Palestine (LCP) will counter the harassment and intimidation of Canada’s Palestinian community and its allies by pro-Israel organizations. “We defend the right of Palestinians to exist,” co-founder Emilio Dabed says. “Law, on its own, cannot liberate Palestinians or Palestine. Law is a complementary tool for a struggle that needs to combine grassroots organization and mobilization.”
A new initiative claiming to combat antisemitism in Canada’s federal service is primarily about defending apartheid.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has ruled that “Product of Israel” labels affixed to wines produced in Israel’s illegal West Bank settlements violate Canadian consumer protection law.
Zionist lobby groups in Canada have been on an anti-Palestinian rampage in the last two weeks.
A recent hire by Canada’s Special Envoy to combat antisemitism has a history of fabricating claims of antisemitism to smear Palestine solidarity activists. This seems to confirm that the office’s true agenda is to simply shield Israel from criticism.