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    One-year after beginning of genocide in Gaza, Canadian gov’t remains largely indifferent

    Montreal, October 7, 2024 — On the one-year mark of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) laments the failure of the Canadian government to achieve a ceasefire and stop Israel’s murderous actions. With more than 42,612 Palestinians killed in Gaza and with Israel expanding its deadly attacks against the Lebanese people, CJPME believes that Canada’s continued inaction in response to Israel’s deliberate mass killing of civilians shows that it has failed to learn any lessons from the last year. CJPME urges Canada to respond to genocide by cutting off its ties with Israel, including through the imposition of a two-way arms embargo and sanctions on Israeli leaders.
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    Canada’s failed Israel policy enables regional war: CJPME

    Montreal, October 1, 2024 — With a regional war unfolding in the Middle East, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) decries the Trudeau government’s failed approach to Israeli belligerency over the past year.  CJPME believes that there’s a clear line between Israel’s horrific collective punishment against Palestinians following last year’s Oct. 7 attack by Hamas – considered a genocide by many – and the outbreak of regional war today.  Just hours ago, Iran launched a massive missile attack on Israel, citing Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders.  Israel’s subsequent vow of widespread retaliation will only plunge the region into greater misery and despair. 
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    Intended to Fail: Systemic Anti-Palestinian Racism and Canada’s Gaza Temporary Resident Visa Program

    This report examines the ways that Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has failed to reunite Canadians with their Palestinian family members stuck in Gaza through the Temporary Resident Visa Program for Gazans (TRV), as Israel wages a plausible genocide and campaign of mass starvation. The TRV program is a special immigration measure launched by IRCC in early 2024 to save family members of Palestinian Canadians subject to a genocidal assault in Gaza.  Access the full report here.
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    Position Paper: Leveraging Canada's Arms Trade to End the Violence in Gaza

    Israel’s devastating war on Gaza and the routine violence faced by Palestinians under military occupation have produced a catastrophic human toll, leading the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Israel to change its actions to prevent the “real and imminent risk” of genocide. The UN Human Rights Council and independent UN experts have called on all states to cease the sale and transfer of weapons to Israel immediately, or else risk complicity in war crimes or acts of genocide. Although Parliament voted in March 2024 in support of ending arms transfers to Israel, Canada’s actions to date have been limited and insufficient, allowing weapons to continue to flow to Israel. Canada cannot continue to export arms to Israel and maintain a close working relationship with the Israeli military so long as it is involved in egregious violations of international humanitarian law. Canada must use its diplomatic and economic leverage vis-a-vis Israel’s defense and security establishment to bring an immediate end to the violence.  
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    Tell Trudeau: Stop Israel's war machine

    Almost a year after Israel launched its campaign of genocide on Gaza, Israel is now propagating war across the Middle East.  Israel proclaims that it's only acting in self-defence, and many of our Canadian political leaders eat it up.  But Israel's decades of militarism, colonialism and occupation tell a different story, and 2023-24 will go down in the history books much as 1947-48, 1956, 1967, 1982, 2006, 2008-09.  It is long past time for Canada to rebuke Israel's war machine and end the sale of Canadian military goods and technology to Israel: millions of people in Palestine, Lebanon, Israel, Syria and Iran depend on it.
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    Tell Miller and Joly: Save Families from Gaza Now!

    Over a thousand Palestinians with connections to Canada are stranded in Egypt, while thousands more may still be stuck in Gaza. All of them face devastating bureaucratic obstacles from Canada’s Gaza Temporary Resident Visa (TRV) program. In early 2024, Canada had pledged to help Palestinians escape Israeli violence and reunite with their families in Canada. Instead, our TRV program has utterly failed and has revealed deep flaws and anti-Palestinian racism in Canada’s visa system. This failure continues to prolong the suffering of Palestinian families and tarnishes Canada’s global reputation as a safe haven.
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    Boycott campaign: Keter plastic

    Boycott campaign: Keter plastic Factsheet Series No. 249, created: August 2024, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East   View factsheet in PDF format CJPME Factsheet 249, published August 2024: This factsheet outlines the boycott campaign against the Israeli company Keter Plastic due to its production in Israel and its historical operations in the occupied West Bank. It details Keter's exploitation of Palestinian labour, complicity in settlement expansion, and continued violations of Palestinian human rights. Despite closing its factory in the occupied West Bank in 2014, Keter remains culpable for its prior breaches of international law and its extensive history of exploiting Palestinian land and resources for economic gain.
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    Canada’s Sanctions on Illegal Settlers in the OPT

    Canada’s Sanctions on Illegal Settlers in the OPT Factsheet Series No. 248, created: August 2024, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East   View factsheet in PDF format CJPME Factsheet 248, published August 2024: This factsheet explores Canada’s recent sanctions on Israeli settlers and groups involved in extremist violence and land theft. The factsheet also addresses who the Israeli settlers and groups are and what recommendations the Canadian government can take regarding illegal settlers and settlements.  
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