Send a letter to Deborah Lyons Deborah Lyons called Selina Robinson “wonderful“ minutes after the now disgraced BC minister made a series of anti-Palestinian remarks including calling pre-European colonization Palestine “a crappy piece of land with nothing on it”. Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism must apologize for lending […]
Sign Petition Supporting the Demands Canadian BDS Coalition Statement Enabling Genocide : Trudeau, Joly and Poilievre For immediate publication (le français suit) On December 29, 2023, the government of South Africa filed an application instituting proceedings against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ)concerning alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the
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On Friday, January 26, 2024, the International Court of Justice found that Israel may be committing genocide, delivering a provisional ruling that Israel must cease its genocidal policies in Gaza. Despite what is clearly a case of genocide enacted against Palestinians in Gaza and a concerted attacks against Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian West
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The Canadian BDS Coalition joined with more that 150 groups & over 1,000 individuals in signing this statement. However, it should be noted that the Canadian BDS Coalition does not support the sentence “”We call on your government to make that same commitment, which would be in keeping with Canada’s consistent support for the
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The following is a report on the work of the Canadian BDS Coalition during 2023. Our 20+ member organizations include country-wide, regional and local groups from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island. The Canadian BDS Coalition was formed in 2016 to bring together organizations in Canada that support the call for boycott, divestment and sanctions in
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Take a moment and send a letter to the Ottawa Jazz Festival. Let them know it is not cool to be used in the apartheid state’s art-washing program. Write a letter In 2018, the Ottawa Jazz Festival (OJF) accepted programming sponsorship from the apartheid state of Israel embassy in Ottawa. Despite widespread criticism at the time, the OJF
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Original article in rabble.ca Karen Rodman, December 18, 2023 A recent access to information request by Just Peace Advocates is shining a light on the billions of dollars Canadian charities are sending overseas. (Just Peace Advocates is a member of the Canadian BDS Coalition) Taxpayer subsidized donations by Canadian charities may well be Canada’s most
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The following are letters that have been written in the past. Many have been updated in late December 2023, so you can continue to send them in the context of the current genocide underway by Israel, but we encourage you to update these to reflect the ongoing situation. The NDP should oppose genocide & express
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Activists around the world vow to #ShutElbitDown. New video: Shame on Scotiabank and its asset fund for investing half a billion dollars in Elbit Systems! Original post (including video & photo) on Canada Palestine Association, member group of the Canadian BDS Coalition. Download brochure that local groups and others can use to
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The Canadian BDS Coalition initiated the call in August 2021 for Canada to not proceed with the armed military drones procurement After Parliament adjourned for the holiday season 2023, the Canadian government just quietly released plans to purchase their first fleet of military armed drones for both domestic surveillance and attacks overseas. They’re hoping we
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