CJPME Challenges Government to follow through on its absurd anti-BDS Motion

--- Since Canada's Parliament Passed its anti-BDS Motion ---Count Up

...since the Trudeau government promised to condemn BDS activists, and has done nothing!

We're still waiting for your condemnation, Justin Trudeau!

On Feb. 22, 2016, the Canadian Parliament passed a motion committing to "condemn any and all attempts" by Canadian "organizations, groups or individuals" to promote the BDS movement. This is an absurd and offensive motion which tramples on Canadians' Charter right to freedom of expression. 3000 Canadians have already signed CJPME's "Go ahead, make my day, condemn me" Petition, daring the government to condemn Canadians for exercising their Charter rights to stand up for dispossessed peoples. For weeks now, the Canadian government has been too scared either to 1) condemn Canadians for exercising their freedom of expression for BDS, 2) renounce this bizarre and insulting motion, or 3) admit that it passed the motion to intimidate critics of Israel, or worse, to score a few political points at the expense of Canadians' right to free speech.

On February 22, 2016, the House of Commons passed a motion calling the government “to condemn any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or individuals to promote the BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] movement, both here at home and abroad.” Civil liberties groups across Canada condemned the motion, considering it an assault on free expression, whether or not one may agree with the BDS movement itself.

In fact, the people and organizations around the world which support the BDS movement do so because they agree with the movement’s objectives as stated at its launch in 2005. The movement calls for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions on Israel “until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.” The three core objectives of the BDS movement align very closely with Canada’s official policy on the Israel-Palestine conflict and are:

“Ending [Israel’s] occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall.”
“Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality.”
“Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.”

Below are several of communications and actions that CJPME launched in terms of opposing parliament's attempt to intimidate the ongoing work of BDS activists!

Sign CJPME's petition challenging on the Canadian Government to follow through on its absurd motion, and condemn us for our boycott activism
Read CJPME's February 19 Press Release launching the "Boycott Israel" sticky notes campaign
Read our February 23 Press Release on the CJPME president waiting to be condemned by the Trudeau Government
Read our Factsheet shedding light on the stated objectives of the BDS movement, despite the uninformed parliamentary debate: "BDS: Informing the Parliamentary Debate"
Read our March 23 Press Release on the Trudeau Government's lack of action after the Ant-BDS Motion
Read our letters to Justin Trudeau, Stephane Dion, Tony Clement, Michelle Rempel and Thomas Mulcair, challenging them to take action if they really believe in the substance of the anti-BDS motion
Read the article in Le Devoir covering CJPME's campaign challenging the government with its "Condemn Me" campaign
Read our March 10 Press Release on the threats and hate speech CJPME received after the Anti-BDS motion

See below CJPME’s counter, counting the day, hours and minutes since the government passed the anti-BDS motion, and has done nothing. This reluctance to act is surely a testament to Parliament’s lack of conviction as to the legality and morality of this offensive anti-BDS motion.

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