**(Organize a picket in your own neighbourhood andlet 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.”
Second Fedayeen Football game on July 11! Taking football back to the people…great spirit, amazing solidarity with Palestine! Until return and liberation! (photos courtesy Michael YC Tseng)
The first match of the Fedayeen Football League – The People’s Football League – will take place on June 27, 2026 at 6:30 pm at McSpadden Park, near Commercial–Broadway Skytrain. ⚽️⚽️
We will be playing 5-5 on a half-pitch. All skill levels are welcome. If you have never played before, feel free to come and try.
Order our new Palestine tote bag with one other of our signature items (flag or scarf), for just $25 including shipping to anywhere in Canada. Also included will be a keffiyeh bracelet and Palestinian flag pin.
Send an e-transfer for $25 to cpavancouver@gmail.com (along with your mailing address in a separate email) to ensure you have what you need to support Palestine until return and liberation!
Join us for food, film, and a discussion on how the Naksa still shapes the liberation struggle today.
📅 6 June 2026 – At 6 PM 📍 1803 E 1st Avenue, Vancouver
In Arabic, “Naksa” means setback. In June 1967, Israel, as a result of the six day war, occupied the West Bank, Gaza, the Syrian Golan Heights, and the Egyptian Sinai. A new wave of Palestinians were forced across the Jordan River into overcrowded UN run camps, joining families already displaced in 1948. This event reshaped the region and forged the conditions for a new kind of resistance.
Annemarie Jacir’s film When I Saw You takes us right into that moment. The film follows Tarek, a young boy displaced by the Naksa, who can’t understand why he can’t go home. He runs away from a refugee camp and finds himself among Palestinian fedayeen (fighters) preparing to cross back.
At the recent Canadian Labour Congress(CLC) convention in Winnipeg, a resolution calling for all trade, services and relationships with Israel to be declared “hot cargo” was never allowed to reach the convention floor for debate. Instead, CLC leadership submitted a weaker diversionary resolution, which was ultimately passed with an amendment that the CLC cut ties with the Israeli trade federation Histadrut. Although this was positive and something that Palestinian activists have demanded for decades, the broader demands of “hot cargo” were shelved.
The final resolution that was passed (Gen 134) was reported to also include some highly problematic clauses, like endorsing the bankrupt “negotiated two-state solution”. However, the most egregious was the following: That the CLC will work “towards the immediate release of Israeli hostages’ remains”.
First off, there are no Israeli hostage remains left in Gaza, something even the Israeli government openly declared in January 2026. So if we’re talking about Gaza and Palestine, then this clause is not only factually incorrect but its inclusion is suspicious. Why did the CLC leadership feel compelled to put this in their revised resolution? Was it just window dressing to mollify the Zionist lobby, or does it try to justify further Israeli aggression in the future?
Secondly, if we really want to properly discuss the issue of returning body remains, why not include the remains of the 766 Palestinians (and 10 foreign nationals) that Israel insists on holding to this day, some of them for decades. And this number only includes the documented and known cases, there are many more. Israel refuses to release a list of Gaza prisoners and denies families confirmation of whether their loved ones are alive or dead. Released prisoners have stated there are hundreds of bodies in the morgue and cellars of the infamous Sde Teiman torture prison. (The horrific violence at this particular prison has been well-documented even by Israeli media.)
But no, the CLC leadership prefers to focus on non-existent Israeli hostage remains in Gaza with no mention of the much greater level of Palestinian suffering on this issue. How racist, how supremacist do you have to be to totally ignore and dismiss the hundreds of Palestinians and their families impacted by this, as if they are not worthy of our consideration. This resolution also called to support initiatives against anti-Palestinian hate; we suggest they start with themselves and examine their own deadly biases.
All we can say with certainty at this point is that Palestinian lives and dignity have again been desecrated, many times over by Israel and now by the CLC leadership. We demand the implementation of “hot cargo” as the bare minimum that should be done by union allies here in the imperial core if they really are committed to social justice internationally.
(Cover photo collage includes painting by Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour)
