Photo: A protest in downtown Ottawa on the evening of September 10 calling for a full arms embargo now. Photo by Brent Patterson. Yesterday, Tuesday September 10, Canadian foreign minister Melanie Joly said: “Our goal is to ensure that there are no Canadian weapons or weapon components sent to Gaza.” Read more…
Twenty-six year old International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi has been killed in the West Bank. The International Solidarity Movement has issued a statement that says: “During the weekly demonstration in Beita, Palestine, on the morning of [Friday] September 6th, 2024, the Israeli army intentionally shot and killed Read more…
Photo by PYM. The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) held an information session in Ottawa on August 22 featuring a representative of the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association who joined the forum virtually from the West Bank. The Addameer website notes: “ADDAMEER (Arabic for conscience) Prisoner Support and Human Read more…
Photo: Journalists holding placards protest the killing of journalist Mohamed Abu Saadeh in an Israeli attack on August 7, 2024. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Anadolu Agency. Front Line Defenders has noted: “People considered to be human rights defenders in the OPT [Occupied Palestinian Territory] include journalists, lawyers, medical workers, fieldworkers, international Read more…
Photo: Iván Madero Vergel is the president of CREDHOS. On June 8, the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) posted: “We stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. In the midst of a rally in Munich, Germany, we express our solidarity with the People of Palestine Read more…
Peace Brigades International-Canada has signed this statement calling for an arms embargo on Israel that, in part, says: “As the catastrophe wrought by Israel’s continued assault on Gaza grows, Canadian civil society organizations across multiple sectors are calling on the Canadian government to immediately suspend all trade in arms and Read more…
Video still: The Ottawa Police Service watches as arms dealers and officials enter the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa. The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) and affiliated groups, including the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), are demanding that the Government of Canada hold “an independent and in-depth inquiry into CADSI Read more…
Video still of University of Ottawa encampment by CTV. Encampments are being organized on campuses across the United States and Canada in response to the Israeli military assault in which at least 34,596 Palestinians have been killed and 77,816 more injured. The encampments have highlighted divestment as a demand. The Columbia Read more…
Photo: Nour Naser Abu al-Nour of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights was killed by an Israeli airstrike on her family home in Rafah on February 20. The airstrike also killed seven members of her family including her two-year-old daughter Kenzi Jumaa. The recently-released Amnesty International report The State of Read more…
Photo: Sarah Abdul-Karim, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, spoke about RBC investments in weapons companies at this rally in Ottawa on April 6. Six months after Israel’s assault on Palestine began, Canadian banks continue to invest in the weapons companies arming the Israeli military. The numbers are staggering: Read more…