Here you'll find information on the most pressing topics related to Palestinian solidarity today.
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For more information on topics related to Palestine, check out Decolonize Palestine, the Online Encyclopedia of Palestine, and CJPME's On This Day history project.
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
In 2005, over 170 Palestinian organizations, associations, coalitons, political parties, unions and other Palestinian civil society bodies made a public call to impose a strategy of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until its complies with international law and respects Palestinian human rights and self-determination. BDS advocates an inclusive, non-violent, and anti-racist approach that includes the call to end the occupation of Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights and the dismantling of the apartheid wall, the recognition of fundamental rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel and the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
For an in-depth look at BDS, visit our primary BDS page: CJPME Boycott Centre.
Self Education
Watch:
- Webinar: BDS 101: How to join the Movement (March, 2021)
- Webinar: Is BDS Illegal or Antisemitic?: Breaking Down Common Myths (May, 2021)
- Webinar: BDS and the Labour Movement in Canada (November, 2021)
- Video: BDS in Canada-Just Do It!
- Video: Why BDS? For Canadians
- Video: BDS The Culture Boycott of Israel
- Video: Free BDS Sticky Notes
- Video: In Their Own Words: Palestinians Champion #BDS
Read:
- EKOS Survey (2017): Canadians Receptive to Sanctions, Boycotts against Israel
- Factsheet: BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions)
- Position Paper: Canada and the BDS Movement
- Official BDS Movement Campaigns
Group Learning
- Workshop (downloadable PowerPoint): Responding to “Singling Out Israel” Arguments
- Workshop (downloadable PowerPoint): Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
Nakba
The Nakba refers to the expulsion, destruction, and ethnic cleansing of Palestine associated with the creation of Israel in 1948. The Nakba is ongoing - Israel seeks to marginalize or remove Palestinians in all areas under its control, for the benefit of the Jewish Israeli population. This includes ethnic cleansing campaigns through the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and Masafer Yatta, and through the establishment of Jewish-Israeli settlements on indigenous Palestinian land. It can also be seen through Israel's restriction of Palestinian access to water, electricity, freedom of movement, healthcare, and family reunification.
Self Education
Watch:
- Video: The Nakba: Why Palestinians refuse to forget
- Video: Palestinian Refugees: Identity Without a Homeland
- Video: Lost cities of Palestine: Haifa, Nazareth, and Jaffa
Read:
- Factsheet: The Nakba
- Factsheet: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Nakba
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Visit:
- Nakba 75 Action is an open platform that provides a broad set of resources dedicated entirely to the Nakba. These include short videos, articles, factsheets, news sources, and entire websites that are dedicated to providing useful information on the Nakba.
Apartheid
Apartheid is the establishment and maintenance of a system in which one racial group dominates another racial group to systematically oppress them. Israel exercises a system of apartheid against Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Israel through a series of discriminatory laws and policies that privilege Jewish-Israelis. See the resources below to further understand Israeli apartheid.
Self Education
- Video: It’s A Duck - Apartheid Israel
- Video: 50 Years of Occupation- The Wall
- Video: Racial Segregation
- Video: Racially-Based Travel Restrictions
Read:
- Who's talking about Israeli Apartheid
- Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity (Amnesty International)
- A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution (Human Rights Watch)
- Factsheet: Israel's System of Apartheid
- Factsheet: Covid-19 in Palestine and Israel's Medical Apartheid
- Factsheet: Israeli Apartheid Week
- Factsheet: Israeli GreenWashing
- Factsheet: Israeli PinkWashing
- Factsheet: Wave of Discriminatory and Anti-Democratic Laws in Israel
- Factsheet: Illegal Restrictions on Movement to/from Israel and the OPT
- Factsheet: Israeli “Public Safety” Abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
- Factsheet: Water in Israel-Palestine
- Position Paper: Israel's Crimes of Apartheid and Canada's Arms Trade
- Position Paper: Canada and Israeli Apartheid Week
- Position Paper: Beyond the Two-State Solution
Listen:
- Canada ignores its own warnings on Israel (w/ Alex Cosh of The Maple) (Feb 2023)
- BMO's Apartheid Loan (w/ Emma Paling of The Breach) (Feb 2023)
- War Crimes in Jenin (w/ UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese) (Feb 2023)
- Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch on the apartheid consensus and being deported from Israel (March 2022)
- Why did Amnesty start talking about Apartheid? (w/ Saleh Hijazi of Amnesty International) (April 2022)
- Shining a light on Canada's expanding arms trade with Israel (April 2022)
Group Learning
- Workshop (downloadable PowerPoint): Israeli Apartheid
- Workshop (downloadable PowerPoint): Apartheid Workshop
Forced Expulsions and Illegal Settlements
Israel's colonial project depends on the displacement of Palestinians and the continuous refusal of their right of return. By displacing Palestinians from their homes and ensuring they cannot return, Israel makes space for Israeli settlers in Israel proper and in illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Self Education
- Video: Ethnic Cleansing of Communities
- Video: Punitive Home Demolitions
- Video: Israel’s Illegal Settlements
Read:
- Factsheet: Israeli Settler Terrosim
- Factsheet: The Forcible Transfer of Masafer Yatta
- Factsheet: Mass evictions in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan
- Factsheet: Israeli Colonization of East Jerusalem
- Factsheet: Mainstream Public Opposition to Israeli “settlements”
- Factsheet: Jewish Immigration to Historical Palestine
- Factsheet: Historical Palestine's Demography
- Position Paper: Opposing Illegal Israeli Territorial Ambitions
Listen:
- Legal victory against wine from illegal Israeli settlements (w/ David Kattenburg and Dimitri Lascarus) (May 2022)
- Webinar: Women From Gaza Tell the Story of the Nakba: A Conversation With Dr. Ghada Ageel (February, 2021)
- Video: 70 Years of Dispossession-Remembering the Nakba
- Factsheet: Anti-Palestinian Racism
- Factsheet: After the Mosque Attack: Islamophobia in Canada
- Factsheet: Islamophobia in Canada
- Anti-Palestinian Racism: Naming, Framing and Manifestations (Arab-Canadian Lawyers Association)
- Maps of Palestinian displacement and dispossession
- Historical context of Israel-Palestine Conflict
- How University Partnerships with Israel Harm Academic Freedom (w/ Dyala Hamzah and Jillian Rogin) (Feb 2023)
- The Islamophobia Industry in Canada (w/ Jasmin Zine) (Nov 2022)
- Canada media and pro-Israel bias (w/ Davide Mastracci) (Nov 2022)
- Let's talk about anti-Arab racism in Canada (w/ Dania Majid) (April 2022)
- Decolonize Palestine (w/ Rawan and Fathi) (March 2022)
- Workshop (downloadable PowerPoints): A Crash Course on Palestine-Israel
Anti-Palestinian Racism
Anti-Palestinian racism is a form of racism that aims to silence, exclude, erase, stereotype,defame or dehumanize Palestinians or their narratives. Anti-Palestinian racism can adopt many forms including denial of the Nakba, excluding or pressuring others to exclude Palestinian perspectives, Palestinians and their allies, defaming Palestinians with slander such being inherently antisemtic, violent or a terrorist sympathizer, etc.
Since anti-Palestinian racism is associated to anti-Arab racism, and Islamophobia, resources on these related topics are included.
Self Education
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