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Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Indigenous Land Defenders Under Attack

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The Canadian BDS Coalition stands in strong solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people’s struggle to defend their territory from Canadian settler colonialism and the Coastal GasLink pipeline. The Coalition denounces what is the reflection of Canada’s own apartheid system. The Indian Act of 1876 is not only the centrepiece of Canadian colonial policy towards Indigenous peoples, but it […]

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Don’t Drink with Apartheid: From South Africa to Palestine!

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For 13+ years  Vancouver has been leading the way with the “Don’t Drink with Apartheid.” Read more below in an article written by Marion Kawas in Mayadeen English. Read more on the Canada Palestine Association website.  Canada Palestine Association is a founding member of the Canadian BDS Coalition. The Coalition supports #BoycottIsraeliWines. Don’t Drink with

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Thousands of Canadians say: CPPIB stop investing our public pension in war crimes

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Demand that CPPIB Divest #CPPdivest. The  2021 CPPIB Annual Report  showed increased investments in Israeli war crimes with at least 10 companies identified by the UN as complicit in war crimes. Note: CPPIB did divest from General Mills in 2021 but won’t confirm details. Write letter November 2021 onwards Join a trend: Over 2K letters

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Puma attempts to explain its involvement in the Israeli National Teams Again. Still keeping Puma out of our shopping carts

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In September 2021, Puma Canada and North America received over 1,000 individual letters, along with a registered letter from the organizations supporting “Canadians calling on Puma to end its sponsorship of the Israel Football Association.”  Several pickets were held in Vancouver in recent weeks.

It seems perhaps Puma is on th defensive wishing to try to explain away it involvement with the Israeli National Teams. 

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#RBCsayNo2Palantir

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Palantir provides their Artificial Intelligence (AI) predictive system to Israeli security forces, to identify people in occupied Palestine.

The Royal Bank of Canada has over 2 M shares valued at over $56 M USD in Palantir holdings. This relationship flies in the face of the recently offered option of a market-linked guaranteed investment certificate based upon environmental, social, and governance investigations which preclude investments in divisive and dangerous elements of society.

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The Canadian BDS Coalition supports the Statement of the International Community Must Support and Protect Palestinian Civil Society

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The International Community Must Support and Protect Palestinian Civil Society   As a group of regional and international organizations, we express our full solidarity with Palestinian civil society and human rights defenders as Israel continues to escalate its attacks to shut down critical human rights work and silence opposition to its occupation of Palestinian territory

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Defending Palestinian Human Rights is not “Terrorism”

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On October 22, Israeli war criminal and “Minister of Defense” Benny Gantz designated six Palestinian organizations as “terrorist.”  All are known for their defense of Palestinian human rights: Al-Haq, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Defence for Children International Palestine, Bisan Center for Research and Development, the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees and the

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Anti-Racist groups speak out on “online harms” proposed legislation

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The Canadian BDS Coalition signed on with dozens of anti-racist and human rights groups across Canada in a joint statement warning of the dangers to freedom of expression and racialized communities presented by the Canadian government’s “online harms” proposed legislation. As the statement notes, “as currently formulated, it risks exacerbating the existing, well-documented pattern of

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