Apartheid-Free Zones are businesses, organizations, labour unions, community centres and spaces that are committed to active solidarity with Palestine. For businesses, this means committing to the boycott of Israeli and complicit products in solidarity with Palestine. For organizations, this means upholding the principles of the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign, namely that Israel must meet its obligation to recognize the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and fully comply with the precepts of international law by:
1. Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall
2. Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and
3. Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.
Apartheid-Free Zones are spaces of active solidarity with Palestine, and we invite your business, organization or space to officially become apartheid-free and commit to these principles!
List of Apartheid-Free Businesses, Organizations and Spaces
This is a new project, so we know our list is not complete! Use our nominations form to ensure you are registered here as an Apartheid-Free Zone!
BC Market – 930 Twelfth St New Westminster, BC, Canada V3M 4K6
In May, 1986, Hanna and Marion Kawas first opened a grocery/convenience store in New Westminster called BC Market. Initially, it was a modest affair; decades later, it is still in the same location but has developed dramatically. It is now a dynamic extended family operation that offers a wide selection of Arabic food stuffs, frozen, bulk and packaged. BC Market managed to establish some firsts in its history – it was the first commercial spot in the Lower Mainland to proudly highlight the Palestinian flag on its logo and over its front door, and was also the first to openly incorporate the term “Arabic food” into its advertising. Additionally, BC Market has a long history of supporting Palestinian and progressive events in the community, through publicity, food donations for receptions, and gift certificates and prizes for raffles; it was the first store to bring Palestinian olive oil to the Vancouver market and still carries many Palestinian food and non-food products (including keffieyehs).
The Wild Bunch Flower Shop
Flower shop and design studio
Studio (Pick-up & Flower Bar): 1525 West 6th Ave., Vancouver, BC. V6J 1R1
General Inquiries:hello@thewildbunch.ca
Order Inquiries: shop@thewildbunch.ca
Events & Weddings:events@thewildbunch.ca
Wildfires Bookshop, 712 B 12th Street, New Westminster BC
Wildfires Bookshop is an independent bookstore that is committed to resisting the singular visions and binaries that the status quo enforces, while creating fertile ground for us to learn and collectivize. With the goal of empowering people to be part of constructing a world filled with care and possibility. We curate books that celebrate both historically and presently excluded voices and stories. We have an entire Palestine section in our shop with fiction, non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels, cookbooks and more. Please reach out if you would like to host any Palestinian related events in our shop. We would love to share our space with you. Palestine will be free!
Spartacus Books,1983 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, 604.688.6138, info@spartacusbooks.net
Spartacus Books is a collectively run bookstore and infoshop located on the stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. We work toward an anti-colonial and anti-capitalist practice based on mutual aid, equity, rejection of hierarchy, and consensus within an anti-oppression framework, understanding that all oppressions are fundamentally linked. Spartacus Books is explicitly committed to anti-colonial and anti-racist movements in its Basis of Unity, and for 50 years has opposed apartheid in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Palestine. For years it has had a section in the store devoted to books on the liberation of Palestine. https://spartacusbooks.net @spartacusbooks (IG & FB)
We are currently collecting donations in-store for the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
Massy Books, 229 E. Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, info@massybooks.com, 604-721-4405
Massy Books is 100% Indigenous owned and operated bookstore on the territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Active in protests, supporting Palestinian authors, sharing petitions, actions and calls to end the genocide. www.massybooks.com
Massy Books is active in protests, supporting Palestinian authors, sharing petitions, actions and calls to end the genocide
Massy Arts Society, 23 East Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, info@massyarts.com
Massy Arts Society is a community hub dedicated to supporting the practices of Indigenous and over-excluded artists. Our programming is extensive in its multiple forms: open talks, debates, book launches, art shows, performances, concerts, fairs, and many others. We are located on the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. The Massy Arts Society participates in actions, sharing information, providing free space for Palestinian gatherings
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Sisters Sage, 1312 Kingsway, Vancouver, BC, SistersSageProducts@gmail.com
Sisters Sage is an Indigenous wellness brand using our traditional plant medicines to create modern self care and wellness products such as soap, bath bombs, salve, and sprays. Sisters Sage is an activist and advocate for a free and self determined Palestine. We use our platform to educate about the current issues and rallies. We donate our time and money to the fight. We are also suffering our own apartheid and genocide, so the fight is mutual. https://sisterssage.com/ @sisters_sage
OPIRG Carleton – 326 University Center, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa ON . K1S 5B6
OPIRG-Carleton is an #ApartheidFreeZone
We recognize that all our struggles for social, racial, gender, and economic justice and for self-determination are deeply interconnected and can only gain strength and power from mutual support and transnational solidarity.
Acknowledging OPIRG-Carleton as an Apartheid Free Zone allows us to take a step further in the fight for decolonisation in this world and stand on the right side of history.
We urge all groups and organizations on and off campus to declare themselves an AFZ by committing to meaningful supports and actions for Palestinian liberation.
Please read our full statement at opirgcarleton.org/afz
ReImagine Co – 206 Piccadilly St, London, ON
From the ReImagine Co Statement: “Reimagine Co has previously declared our support for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement. At this time of renewed attacks on the Palestinian people on an unprecedented scale, we urge London businesses, institutions and community groups to join Reimagine Co in declaring themselves Apartheid Free Zones and committing not to sell products from the illegal Israeli settlements or from any company that profits from violations of Palestinian human rights.”
Visit the ReImagine website: https://reimagineco.ca/
BuycottPalestine
is a social enterprise based that invests in Palestinian businesses. We produce new ways to put money into the Palestinian economy.
Medjool Dates:
For years, Buycott Palestine works with Palestinian farmers in Jericho (?????) and the valley areas in West Bank, Palestine to ship thousands of Class A Medjool Dates to Canada/Turtle Island.
Thanks to its forced ethnic displacement of Palestinians and its theft of Palestinian land and resources; Israel is the world’s largest exporter of Medjool dates, effectively owning more than 60 percent of the global Medjool market share.
Buycott Palestine calls on the international community to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in boycotting medjool dates produced in zionist settlements on stolen Palestinian land.
Visit BuycottPalestine’s website: https://buycottpalestine.com/pages/about-us
is an online marketplace where Canadian companies that sell fair trade products can reach conscious consumers. Fair trade focuses on small producers and encourages the alleviation of poverty in some of the most economically disadvantaged areas of the world. We also have a podcast that focuses on trade justice and ethical consumerism, called Rosette: the podcast.
Rosette supports Palestinian producers making products like olive oil and medjoul dates. This is through partnerships with brands like Zatoun oil, Oxfam Fair Trade, and Palestine Just Trade.
Visit Rosette Fair Trade’s website: https://rosettenetwork.com/
A universal truth about the street food of the world is that it is practically infinite – thus, it gives us an infinite opportunity for discovery, experimentation and surprise.
Be charmed with Arabic hospitability. Relish the richness of Homestyle Arabic Street dishes and be enchanted by the shadow play of the music. Share stories over mouthful of spiced food and when you can’t eat another bite, relinquish yourself to the intensity of the day to a cup of specialty coffee or tea.
1785 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Tel: (204) 221-1636
Cell: (204) 295-7155
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Our Hours:
7 days a week:
12pm – 10pm
Order: https://www.yafacafe.com/menu/
Camas Books & Infoshop is a not-for-profit, collectively owned, volunteer-run community bookstore and autonomous space on Lekwungen territory, home of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.
The Camas Collective is an educational society founded on decolonial and anti-authoritarian values whose mission is to support local indigenous led and other radical resistance movements around the world. We stand with the Palestinian people of Gaza, West Bank, and Jordan, as well as those in refugee camps and the wider diaspora displaced globally who are still awaiting their right of return. We are committed to supporting the Palestinian struggle for liberation and autonomy from the settler apartheid state of Israel. We uphold the principles of boycotting Israeli and complicit products in solidarity with Palestine.
We can be found online @camasbooks and on our website at https://camas.ca.
Cross & Crows Books
East Van’s queerest, friendliest independent neighbourhood bookstore offers new and used books for the whole person at every life stage.
We centre Palestinian and Queer Arab voices in our selection and promotions, and fundraise for relief in occupied and blockaded Palestine
2836 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
(occupied xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ land)
info@crossandcrows.com
604-796-4159
Spring is a magazine of socialist ideas in action, published by the Spring Socialist Network.
In a world of escalating climate disasters that are inflicted most on those least responsible, we want a new world of climate justice. In a society that divides people by race, sexuality, gender, ability, religion and nationality, we want a new society free from all forms of oppression
Interested in joining or have questions about Spring? Email us at info@springmag.ca
Palestine Just Trade Incorporated / Palestine Juste le Commerce Incorporée
Palestine Just Trade Inc. was established in 2018 to bring distinct, quality Palestinian products into Canada on the basis that all of its activities must support “just” trade related to international law and human rights, and be considered through the len of providing the message of “just peace” in regard to Palestine.
Working cooperatively, we can bring the distinct, quality flavours, textures and smells of Palestine to be enjoyed in Canada.
This includes working with socially conscious Palestinian organizations to ensure that the best quality product can be imported to Canada, with just & fair proceeds going to the the Palestinian producers and workers.
Any margins are reinvested into Just Peace Advocates, a not-for-profit international human rights organization that is working in Canada in partnership with other Canadian, with Palestinian and international groups
Solidarity sales of Medjoul dates (from from Al-Rwad) in Palestine.
Agent for Palestinian companies Taybeh and Ashkar facilitating the first shipments of wine and beer to Canada, through the LCB0.
Check out Palestine Just Trade’s website: https://palestinejusttrade.ca/
House of Jerusalem
Instagram @HouseofJerusalem
Ethical sourcing is at the core of our values. We believe that by upholding 100% ethical sourcing practices, we not only ensure the highest quality of our products but also contribute to the prosperity of the farmers and working class of Palestine. Every ingredient, every flavor, and every story we share is a testament to the dedication of those who have nurtured these gifts for generations.
Our commitment extends beyond the confines of culinary delight. We aspire to lead the market in quality, product transparency, and customer satisfaction. House of Jerusalem is not just a brand; it’s a promise to our customers – a promise of an authentic experience, a taste of Palestine, and a commitment to a better world.
See website: https://www.houseofjerusalem.net/
Email: Sales@HouseOfJerusalem.net
Phone: +1 (519) 319-2001
Medjoul dates (premium and choice)
Source: Farms of Fadil Masri, packaged in Nablus
New this year. Look for in grocery stores in Ontario and elsewhere,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Vegan, organic, coconut sugar sweetened chocolate and confections- compostable packaging. The goal is to entice the world to a better place- through chocolate.
We’ve always strived for being apartheid-free, particularly with our sourcing.
We will continue to speak up for and donate to those living through the genocide in Palestine.
Bruce R. Allen Paralegal
St. Catharines
Contact: praxis1871@gmail.com
Palestine Bakeshop
Our objective is to preserve endangered Palestinian cuisine and help preserve the identity, history and culture of the people of occupied Palestine. The owner is a human rights activist actively raising awareness through journalism, activism and food. Palestine Bakeshop also gives back by donating 10% off each order they receive.
Website: www.palestinebakeshop.com
Contact details:
[647]793-4699
Leeward Glenway (York Condominium Corporation No. 141)
North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
LeewardGlenway@mail.com
+1(647)-677-7573
The Board of Directors has approved measures to enforce BDS-specific policies on all contracts in our procurement processes and for any vendors we work with.
Y.C.C. 141 is a condo-townhouse corporation, representing the Leeward Glenway community in Toronto’s Flemingdon Park.
www.ycc141.com
Tajalli Jewelry Inc.
Tajalli Jewelry is committed to supporting the people of Palestine and displaced Palestinians worldwide by donating 15% of its monthly sales to their aid. The company actively opposes apartheid and all forms of institutionalized discrimination, a stance it proudly shares on social media. Tajalli leverages its platform to raise awareness and educate the public about the dangers of apartheid and the critical need for equality. The company ensures that its investments are free from any ties to apartheid-like systems, instead choosing to support and partner with organizations and initiatives that champion equality, human rights, and anti-apartheid efforts.
Tajalli Jewelry sells stainless steel and sterling silver jewelry with most of the collection being Palestinian inspired.
Tajalli Jewelry Inc. was founded in November 2023, a month after the October 6th war began in Palestine, with a mission to support communities in need. Initially focused on aiding Palestinians affected by the conflict, Tajalli Jewelry donates 15% of its sales to provide relief. As other humanitarian crises have arisen, including those in Sudan and Congo, Tajalli Jewelry has expanded its mission to help all affected individuals in these regions.
Contact Details:
Sara Hassan
tajallijewelry@gmail.com
647 885 0589
Mississauga, Ontario
Badiya
We are committed to sharing the Palestinian culture with our community through textiles, Tatreez, and different motifs.
We are committed to boycotting and finding apartheid-free substitutes for any products or services that support the apartheid state throughout our business operations.
Outerwear and accessories made with Sadu fabric, which is considered traditional in the Arab culture and local to the MENA region.
Contact Details:
Rawd Amr
Online / Almonte, ON
Aroma Pastry
We are Palestinians, and we are committing to the boycott of Israeli and complicit products in solidarity with Palestine
Pastry Shop
Contact Details
Tariq Abu Taha
289-880- 8054
361 Brant St, Burlington
info@aromapastry.ca
https://aromapastry.ca/
https://www.instagram.com/aromapastry.ca/
Passion, Your Vision—let's turn your moments into timeless memories. At Strast Media, we're dedicated
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Our diverse team specializes in a range of photography and video services, from corporate branding and
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On our website we have a support resource guide for different organizations and causes
https://www.strastmedia.com/
Contact Details:
Adrienne Row – Smith, Hingman Leung
strastmedia@gmail.com
www.strastmedia.com / strastmedia
Ottawa, Ontario
The Grove
The Grove is a Queer, Black and People of Colour owned business located in Hintonburg, the traditional
and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Territory.The Grove offers an unmatched backdrop
for photographers, videographers, and artists looking for the ideal setting to bring their visions to reality.
We are also available for rental for workshops!
We support the liberation efforts and have donated our space and time and practice BDS work in our
space
Contact Details
Adrienne Row – Smith, Hingman Leung
Instagram – @thegrove613
https://www.strastmedia.com/
Ottawa, Ontario
A to Z Tutoring
A to Z Tutoring offers one-on-one tutoring in English, French, math and science for grades 1-12. We
currently service Oakville and Mississauga for in-home tutoring and province-wide for online tutoring.
We match students with expert tutors who create a personalized, engaging, and effective tutoring plan
tailored to each learner's unique needs. Whether your goal is to receive general homework help,
improve grades, or boost confidence, we have incredible tutors who will help your child every step of
the way. Our team consists of experienced tutors who are dedicated to creating a supportive and
inspiring learning environment.
I am always advocating for Palestine on my instagram stories and sharing about what's been happening
for the past few years. I try to boycott as many companies that support Israel as I reasonably can in my
daily life. I pray one day soon, we will see a Free Palestine, ameen!
Contact Details:
Amirah Zubair
Tel # 647-893-4777
amirah@atoztutoring.ca
www.atoztutoring.ca and @atoztutoring_ on Instagram