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Updates from the palestinian BDS (Canada)

In the News

BDS Quebec targets Montreal based military company over ties with Israel

In Canada a new campaign has started to target military relations with Israel: activists from the network BDS Quebec have launched efforts to stop cooperation between the Montreal based

Military Embargo
August 19, 2016
By: 
Stop the Wall
Blog

Eleven signs that BDS continues to grow despite Israel’s war of repression

Support for BDS has not only continued to grow - it has accelerated.

July 22, 2016
By: 
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
In the News

U of R won't pursue study tour deal with Israel

As the smoke clears in devastated Gaza, University of Regina faculty, students and community members reaffirmed their anger over the school's discussions with Israeli universities.

Academic Boycott
August 14, 2014
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Leader Post
Open Letter

Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza

As Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine.

Economic Boycott
Cultural Boycott
Academic Boycott
August 8, 2014
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Internation Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)
In the News

Blue Planet Project publishes a report in partnership with LifeSource calling for BDS

Blue Planet Project, an international civil society movement begun by the well-respected Council of Canadians, has published a report in partnership with LifeSource on The Human Right to Water in Palestine outlining Israeli violations of the human right to water and nonviolent resistance to these violations, recommending the boycott of Israel.

In this report written by local experts and grassroots activists who are a part of the Palestinian LifeSource collective, we learn that Isra

March 13, 2012
By: 
Blue Planet Project & LifeSource
Analysis

Against the expansion of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement

Photo: Israeli apartheid wall in Occupied Palestine.

Last fall, the Conservative government announced plans to expand the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA), a set of policies that serves to further legitimize Israeli occupation and apartheid, and deepen Canadian corporate and state involvement in Israeli racism and colonialism.

CIFTA, which took effect in January 1997, covers geographical areas over which Israel

February 10, 2012
By: 
Tadamon
In the News

University of Regina Students Union joins the global movement of BDS!

Students Against Israeli Apartheid – Regina (SAIA) is pleased to announce that a motion was passed at the University of Regina Student Union AGM to support the Palestinian call for boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) as a means of pressuring Israel to comply with international and human rights law. This resolution is a huge first step towards the full divestment of the University of Regina from companies complicit with the human rights violations currently taking place in Palestine.

February 10, 2012
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Students Against Israeli Apartheid – Regina (SAIA)