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Days of Action to Boycott Israeli Wine: Don’t Drink with Genocide

SAVE THE DATE!
Join our next round of actions to tell the BC NDP government to end its complicity in Israeli genocide and war profiteering. Selling Israeli wines is actively aiding and abetting a state committing genocide.
Come out on September 10-12 to demand that the BC Government immediately deshelve Israeli wines. Eighteen years of war profiteering off Palestinian and Arab dispossession is shameful!

Check out the history of this 18 year campaign. As the Israeli regime steps up its terror raids in the West Bank, arresting hundreds and displacing even more, and continues its genocide in Gaza, it is more crucial than ever to speak out.

We must not allow the BC government to make us complicit in this infamy (through the provincial taxation of these illegal products).

**Organize a picket in your own neighbourhood and let us know about your action

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We will always defend Palestinian rights, we will not be silenced!

#Justice4Jarrar
(Check back soon for updates. Donate now to the legal defense fund for Ahmad Justice4Jarrar | Chuffed )

Canada Palestine Association CPA is outraged by the recent arrest of Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad from Toronto, who has fraudulently charged with “Participating in or Contributing to Activities of a Terrorist Group”.

This is the latest heavy-handed manoeuvre by the police services in one of Canada’s major cities. We have witnessed this escalating trend in the last 1000+ days as Palestinians and their supporters have insisted on demanding accountability for Israeli war crimes. Many activists have faced such spurious charges only to have them later disappear; but the whole point of such tactics is to silence and chill pro-Palestine advocacy.

Challenging injustice and calling out genocide is and will always remain a fundamental right that we will neither shy away from nor abandon. A right that the repressive police and security services as well as the Zionist lobby aim to deny the Palestinian community and its supporters.

As individuals who killed Palestinian and Lebanese civilians during service with the Israeli military walk free on our streets and are even welcomed on college campuses, those opposing genocide are the ones being targeted. Canada’s bogus “terrorist list” sets the foundation for this hypocrisy, a hypocrisy that has been guided for decades by Zionist groups.

CPA calls for the charges to be dropped against Ahmad and for the biased and racist behaviour of the Toronto Police Services to be investigated. We stand with all those defending the Palestinian right to speak, and we will not be silenced!

Article from Yves Engler: Israeli authoritarianism rears its ugly head in Toronto – Yves Engler

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BC Gov’t must deshelve all Israeli wines and end its war profiteering!

**(Organize a picket in your own neighbourhood and let us know about your action. Update: Ban Israeli Wine rally also happening on Sat May 9th 3-5pm at the BC Government Liquor store. 209 Anderson St, Nelson.)

Lets pressure the provincial government to finally end its complicity in war crimes. Selling Israeli wines is actively aiding and abetting a state committing genocide.
For Nakba78, join us to demand that the BC Government immediately deshelve Israeli wines. Eighteen years of war profiteering off Palestinian and Arab dispossession is shameful!

May 15, 4 pm
BC Liquor Store, 1520 Commercial Dr., Vancouver
(After the picket, join the Nakba78 Rally at Grandview Park at 5:30 pm)

Our first campaign launch in 2008 coincided with Nakba60 and that connection was the foundation of our public statement. The statement, endorsed by a wide variety of both local and international groups, read:

“On this 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the Israeli government has announced plans to ‘rebrand’ its 60 years of dispossession and ethnic cleansing. Here in B.C., the focus of this ‘rebranding’ is the promotion of wines under an Israeli label in B.C. liquor stores…

We say 60 years of ‘rebranding’ is enough; 60 years of dispossession, exile and the destruction of a whole nation are enough. Send this message to the Israeli government, and to our local and national politicians.”

May 2008 Picket

More info here: https://cpavancouver.org/boycottisraeliwines-campaign/

50th Anniversary of the Tal al Zaatar massacre


“Let the siege come … I am the one who is besieging you”.

August 12,2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the fall and massacre of the Tal al Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. This came after a brutal seven-month siege by the Lebanese fascist forces, supported by Israel and the Syrian regime.

This week also marks the 18th anniversary of the passing of the renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who dedicated his famous poem “Ahmad Zaatar… the Arab Ahmad” to the fallen camp.

The poem states in part:
“Let the siege come … I am the one who is besieging you”.

Yes, the Arab Ahmad has been besieging you since 1948 and continues to besiege you and your treachery!

  • From the Western powers that supported the racist Zionist project that made a mockery of their so-called democracy and human rights, and who should know that the chickens will soon come home to roost;
  • From the settler colonialist state (Israel) that has never seen peace and tranquility since its illegal establishment for the past 78 years;
  • From King Abdullah I of Jordan, to Nuri al-Said of Iraq to King Farouk of Egypt who all met their fate through peoples’ justice;
  • From all the sieges that have been imposed on the Arab and Palestinian people in Gaza, West Bank, Jerusalem, Beirut, Bagdad, Sana’a and in other countries such as Cuba and Venezuela…

It is your turn Western powers now to be sieged. Today is Strait of Hurmuz and tomorrow the Bab ElMandeb and many others, especially when our resources and our people are liberated from your control.
It is also your turn US/Israeli Arab puppet regimes to be sieged by your own peoples for your betrayals and complicity… traitorous regimes such as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Emirates, Morocco and others, the Arab Ahmad will come to you and you will face your just destiny.

Mahmoud Darwish concluded his Arab Ahmad poem by affirming that “We Shall Remain”. And the Arab Ahmad will haunt you for the rest of your lives and beyond.

You can find a sample of translation of the “Arab Ahmad on Voice of Palestine show (Aug 9, 2011), 26.52 minutes in this audio clip.

(by Hanna Kawas, who lived in Tal al Zaatar in the early 1970’s)

Back ground info here: Searching for Palestine in Lebanon – Mondoweiss