Ottawa, April 12, 2024–Grassroots advocacy groups Just Peace Advocates (JPA) and Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) are calling on the federal government to take immediate action in the case of a Canadian charity sending taxpayer-subsidized funds to Israeli organizations involved in the commissi
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April 11, 2024
Dear Minister Bibeau,
Over the past several years, you have been notified of concerns about a number of Canadian charities providing funds to organizations supporting the Israeli military and/or illegal Israeli settlements in
Canada’s arms ban made international headlines. But in reality, Ottawa isn’t severing assistance to Israel’s military. In a first, Parliament spent a full day debating a motion on the Israel/Palestine conflict. The March 18 opposition day motion presented by the social democratic NDP called for Canada to recognize Palestine, fund UNRWA…
Canada’s remarkable fidelity to an apartheid state committing genocide is driven by imperial geopolitics, settler solidarity, Christian Zionism and the Israel lobby in Canada, and the weaponization of antisemitism.