GAZA 20/20
Al-Haq’s Gaza 20/20 campaign is internationally focused on bringing consciousness to the grave situation in Gaza and hold the Israeli government accountable. In Canada, we are calling for Sanctions on Israel until the blockade on Gaza is lifted.
Organizations wishing to join the campaign can sign here
Individuals can sign the petition here to be part of ongoing campaign
In Canada, Just Peace Advocates partners with Al-Haq to bring this message to our Canadian government, pointing out Canadian Accountability through both international and domestic law.
Domestic Law: Canadian sanctions laws implement United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions regimes under the United Nations Act, as well as Canadian autonomous sanctions regimes under the Special Economic Measures Act. Under the Special Economic Measures Act, sanctions are required when gross and systematic human rights violations have been committed in a foreign state.
International Law: Under Article 1 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, all high signatories in which Canada is one, are required to take actions to ensure that violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention do not occur under any circumstance.
In 2017, the United Nations stated that Gaza, Palestine was expected to be unlivable in 2020. For the nearly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, Israel’s persecution and collective punishment had already made life there unbearable since the 2007 blockade had been imposed.
The internationally focused Gaza 20/20 campaign began in 2018 to bring consciousness to the grave situation in Gaza, and lresult in action from the international community to call the Israeli government to be accountable.
Gaza 2020 Underway in Canada
Gaza 2020 calls Canadian government to respect domestic and international law
Toronto/Ramallah, November 11, 2018
Gaza 20/20 is an urgent call from the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq to the international community. The campaign was kicked off in Canada, in partnership with Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement pour une Just Paix, with over 20 public events, coast to coast.
Last year, the UN stated that Gaza, Palestine is expected to be unlivable in 2020. For the nearly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, Israel’s persecution and collective punishment has already made life there unbearable. Gaza 20/20 is internationally focused on bringing consciousness to the grave situation in Gaza, and leading to action to call on governments to call the Israeli government to accountability.
In Canada, Just Peace Advocates has partnered with Al Haq to bring this message to civil society and to the Canadian government, pointing out Canadian accountability through both international and domestic law.
Close to 2,000 people attended sessions held in six provinces in September and October, to hear about Gaza 2020. In September Suha Jarrar, a researcher from Al Haq spoke about the Gaza 2020 campaign in Regina and Saskatoon, along with the politics of climate change.
Over several weeks, Jonathan Kuttab, one of the original founders of Al Haq, and internationally respected Palestinian human rights lawyer held 20 public discussions in locations from Newfoundland to British Columbia, sharing the Gaza2020 within the context of his thinking regarding post-Oslo Palestine. These groups included public events in communities such as Antigonish, Halifax, St. John’s, St. Catharines, Stratford, Toronto & area, Vancouver and area, Comox and Victoria. As well Jonathan addressed an evangelical high school class, an evangelical private university,, a tourism college class, several muslim communities, legal students, university student organizers, and joined a panel on children rights in the reality of colonization from Turtle Island to Palestine.
Jonathan Kuttab, who is also a director of Just Peace Advocates, was joined by co-diretor Rev. Karen Rodman, during this tour, and they also were able to hold meetings with several groups such as Project Ploughshares, community leaders, lawyers and civil liberty leaders.
In Canada, Gaza 2020 is a call for sanctions by the Canadian government on the military state of Israel until the blockade on Gaza is lifted. In Canada’s case this is based on domestic as well as international law.
Specifically:
International Law: requires under Article 1 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, all high signatories in which Canada is one, are required to take actions to ensure that violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention do not occur under any circumstance.
Domestic Law: Canadian sanctions laws implement United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions regimes under the United Nations Act, as well as Canadian autonomous sanctions regimes under the Special Economic Measures Act. Under the Special Economic Measures Act, sanctions are required when gross and systematic human rights violations have been committed in a foreign state
“A 2017 EKOS poll indicated that two-thirds of Canadians indicated support for sanctions on Israel, so the base is there,” said Rodman. “The urgency in Gaza calls us to take a stance under both our domestic and international law to call our Canadian government to account.”
In Canada, the Gaza2020 campaign continues to be featured, including at the recent Canadian Justice and Peace in the Middle East series with Don McIntyre on “Gaza: Preparing for Dawn,” and at the upcoming James Graff Memorial Lecture with Tarek Loubani, a Canadian doctor who practices in Gaza and was shot by Israeli military on May 14, 2018. A petition is available for people to sign, and a letter from organizations is being sent shortly to Prime Minister Trudeau. Further information on the Gaza 2020 and how you can get involved can be found at www.justpeaceadvocates.ca. If you wish more information, including an event specific to Gaza 2020 in Canada please contact info@justpeaceadvocates.ca
The Gaza 2020 campaign will be in place in other countries including the USA shortly.
75+ organizations make a strong call to the Canadian government for sanctions until at least the blockade for the Palestinian people of Gaza is lifted. November 29, 2019
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
As a minimum, we call on the Canadian government to:
75+ organizations join in message to new Canadian government on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 2019
November 29, 2019
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau
One year ago, in November 2018, over 100 Canadian groups including human rights, international justice, civil society, faith groups and other civil society organizations brought to your attention Al-Haq’s Gaza 20/20 campaign. This campaign is internationally focused on bringing consciousness to the grave situation for Palestinians in Gaza and specifically urges governments to call the Israeli government to account. In Canada, Just Peace Advocates partnered with Al Haq to bring this message to the Canadian government to pursue accountability through both international and domestic law.
This campaign was inspired after a 2017 UN report warned that Gaza is expected to be uninhabitable by 2020. In this deeply worrying report, the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities noted that Gaza’s trajectory of “de-development” has accelerated. For the nearly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, Israel’s persecution and collective punishment had already made life there unbearable.
We write to you again this year, reminding you that the imposed land, sea and air blockade on Gaza now in its twelfth year severely restricts imports and exports, the movement of people in and out of Gaza, access to adequate healthcare, education, and livelihoods including agricultural land and fishing, with the economy being close to a collapse. During 2018, restrictions of movement of humanitarian staff have been particularly tightened. The blockade for the Palestinians of Gaza is a denial of basic human rights and amounts to collective punishment .
There have been over 200 Palestinians killed and approximately 34,000 injuries since March 2018 by Israel in violation of International Humanitarian Law including through the unlawful use of live ammunition by Israeli snipers; this further strained the healthcare system with it being overwhelmed almost to the point of collapse.
The education system in Gaza is severely strained due to the withholding of UNRWA funds by the USA and other states, and yet on November 15, 2019, Canada stepped out of line from the international community, and abstained from the United Nations General Assembly resolution to renew UNRWA’s Mandate for five years until 2023.The vote passed 170-2 with only Israel and the USA voting against the resolution, and Canada was one of seven countries that abstained. This is shameful, and shows that Canada indeed cannot be serious about its bid for the 2020 selection of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) seat.
Ongoing military airstrikes have occurred during the years since the last full out attack in 2014 by Israel on the Palestinians of Gaza, and this has escalated again during the week of November 11 with many deaths and injuries and destroyed infrastructure. Your twitter response in support of Israel is shameful. We call on you to take seriously the violations of international law, and the Canadian government’s responsibility under its international obligations and its own domestic law.
International Law: Under Article 1 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, all High Contracting Parties (which includes Canada), are required to take action to ensure respect for the Convention “in all circumstances.”
Domestic Law: Under the Special Economic Measures Act, the Canadian government can impose sanctions when “gross and systematic human rights violations have been committed in a foreign state.”
On October 23, 2019, University of Western Ontario law professor Michael Lynk said in his presentation to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) as Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territory that “United Nations reports have stated that war crimes may have been committed by Israel during its various military operations in Gaza, [and] multiple and systematic human rights violations have been credibly documented by the United Nations and by international, Israeli and Palestinian human rights defenders.” The Special Rapporteur reminded the UNGA that he had “determined previously that the occupation itself has become illegal, given its flagrant violations of the foundational principles of the modern laws of occupation.”
Professor Lynk stressed that now it is time for the international community to hold Israel accountable, and that “scholars have identified three principal purposes of countermeasures and sanctions: (i) to coerce a change in the targeted state’s or organization’s behaviour; (ii) to constrain a targeted state or organization from engaging in a prohibited activity; and (iii) to signal and/or stigmatize a targeted state or organization regarding its violations of international laws or norms.” It seems Canadians would agree, as a 2017 EKOS poll indicated that two-thirds of Canadians indicated support for sanctions on Israel.
We ask you to heed the words of UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk and to remember Canada has accountability.
Canada has responsibility under both international and domestic law to hold Israel accountable; and so we write to you with urgency, calling Canada to take leadership both in placing economic sanctions and a military embargo on Israel until at least the blockade is lifted for the people of Gaza. This call follows the recommendation made by Michael Lynk to the UNGA that “in line with Common Article 1 of the Geneva Conventions, the Articles of Responsibility of States and Article 25 of the Charter of the United Nations” that all measures necessary be taken “including countermeasures and sanctions, to ensure respect by Israel, and all other relevant parties, of their obligations under international law to end the occupation.”
As civil society organizations, we come together to call the Canadian government to take all possible action to address this mounting human rights and humanitarian crisis under relevant Canadian laws, including the Special Economic Measures Act, and specifically to live up to our country’s responsibilities under Article 1 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
As a minimum, we call on the Canadian government to:
- publicly condemn Israeli security operations in Gaza and demand an end to all breaches of international humanitarian law and international human rights law;
- insist through the implementation of sanctions that Israel end its blockade of Gaza;
- implement an arms embargo, and press for a comprehensive arms embargo at the level of the UN Security Council;
- vote at the UNGA in alignment with the majority of the international community taking a stance in line with international law and human rights for Palestinians, recognizing this is important also in seeking a seat on the UNSC; and
- impose a ban on all goods originating from illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory entering Canada as well as a ban on Canadian companies operating in illegal settlements or trading in settlement goods.
Copied:
François-Philippe Champagne, Global Affairs Minister
Jagmeet Singh, Leader of the NDP
Jo-Ann Roberts, Green Party of Canada
Yves-François Blanchet, Leader of the Bloc Québécois
Andrew Scheer, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
Deborah Lyons, Canadian Ambassador to Israel
Robin Wettlaufer, Canadian Representative in Ramallah
Signed by the following human rights, civic society, faith, labour, student and other groups.
- Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste
- Al Haq
- Canadian Union of Postal Workers – Syndicat des travailleurs et travailleuses des postes
- Canadian Arab Federation
- Palestinian Canadian Congress
- Canada Palestine Association-Vancouver
- Palestinian Canadian Community Centre – Palestine House
- Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV)/Voix juives indépendantes Canada (VJI)
- Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
- Boycott from Within (Israeli citizens for BDS)
- Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, Queen’s University
- De-Colonizer, research and art laboratory for social change, Palestine – Israel
- Palestine Just Trade
- Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians, Alliance de Canadien-nes juives-fs concerné-es (ACJC)
- Camp Micah: Leadership for Peace and Justice and
- Educators for Justice – Waterloo Catholic School Board
- Palestinian and Jewish Unity
- Toronto Solidarity With Palestine
- Socialist Project
- Independent Jewish Voices Victoria
- Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
- International League of Peoples’ Struggle in Canada (ILPS-Canada)
- Science for Peace
- Regina Peace Council
- Holy Land Trust, Bethlehem
- Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)
- No More Silence
- Al-Haadi Musalla
- Al Quds Committee
- Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice
- Idle No More Toronto
- OPIRG-Guelph
- Independent Jewish Voices-Winnipeg
- Victoria Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
- Oakville Palestinian Rights Association (OPRA)
- Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights – SPHR Concordia
- Canadian Peace Congress
- mouvement québécois pour la paix/ quebec movement for peace
- Peaceworks, Midland
- Catholics for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land, CJPHL
- The Canadian Palestinian Foundation of Quebec
- Pax Christi Toronto
- Jewish Liberation Theology Institute
- Food Not Bombs Peterborough
- Educators for Peace and Justice
- Canadian Friends of Sabeel
- Ontario Public Interest Research Group – Carleton
- Justice for Palestinians Calgary
- Nonviolence International Canada
- Council of Canadians, Peterborough and Kawarthas chapter
- Vegans for BDS Canada.
- Sudbury Palestine Solidarity Working Group
- Canada Palestine Support Network (CanPalNet), Vancouver
- SPHR Dawson College
- Council of Canadians, Montreal Chapter
- Laurier Students’ Public Interest Research Group
- Communist Party of Canada – Parkdale Club, Toronto
- Canadian Boat to Gaza
- JOURNEY Magazine Peterborough
- Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 3903
- Solidarité Québec-Haïti
- Toronto Chapter of the Council of Canadians
- Kamloops Chapter of the Council of Canadians
- Powell River Chapter of the Council of Canadians
- Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC)
- The Canadian BDS Coalition
- London Chapter of the Council of Canadians
- McGill Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights
- The Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle
- People for Peace-London
- Mid-Islanders for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
- Palestine Solidarity Network – Edmonton
- United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Israel (UNJPPI)
- Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation (BBCF)
- The Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario/Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants-l’Ontario
- St. John’s Solidarity With Palestine
- Stop Climate Change Party
- Faculty for Palestine (Canada)
- Council of Canadians, Halton Chapter
- Former Eccumenical Accompaniers to Palestine (EAPPI)
- Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Gaza 20/20: 100 organizations call to Canadian Government for Sanctions until the Blockade on Gaza is Lifted, November 29, 2018
100 organizations including human rights, international justice, civil society, faith groups and other civil society organizations tell Prime Minister Trudeau we expect Canada to live up to international accountability and domestic law
November 29, 2018, International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians
100 organizations including human rights, international justice, civil society, faith groups and other civil society organizations.
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Freeland
Last year, the UN warned that Gaza is expected to be uninhabitable by the year 2020. In the deeply worrying report, the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities notes that Gaza’s trajectory of “de-development” has accelerated. For the nearly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, Israel’s persecution and collective punishment has already made life there unbearable.
We bring to your attention Al-Haq’s Gaza 20/20 campaign which is internationally focused on bringing consciousness to the grave situation, urging governments to call the Israeli government to account.
In Canada, Just Peace Advocates has partnered with Al Haq to bring this message to you personally, with a call to the Canadian government to pursue accountability through both international and domestic law.
International Law: Under Article 1 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, all High Contracting Parties (which includes Canada), are required to take action to ensure respect for the Convention “in all circumstances.”
Domestic Law: Under the Special Economic Measures Act, the Canadian government can impose sanctions when “gross and systematic human rights violations have been committed in a foreign state.”
A 2017 EKOS poll indicated that two-thirds of Canadians indicated support for sanctions on Israel.
On October 22, 2018, Canadian law professor Michael Lynk, who serves as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, issued his most recent report to the UN General Assembly. He pointed out the continued deterioration of almost all aspects of life in Gaza over the past year, as the Palestinian people struggle with the impact of an 11 year blockade of air, sea and land access by Israel. He also highlighted the excessive use of Israeli military force against protesters, noting in the context of an occupation such as that in Gaza, killings resulting from the unlawful use of force may constitute willful killings, a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions, and that grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions are categorized by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as war crimes.
The Special Rapporteur’s report calls on Israel to take a number of important steps, including:
- End the blockade and closure of Gaza, lifting all restrictions on imports and exports as well as on the movement of people, and facilitate full access to medical care, consistent with genuine Israeli security concerns;
- Ensure that regulations governing the use of force for Israeli security forces are in strict compliance with international standards, with particular attention to the use of deadly force; and
- Ensure accountability for alleged violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law by Israeli security forces, with particular attention to the demonstrations in Gaza;
The Special Rapporteur further recommends that the international community:
(a) In line with Common Article 1 to the Geneva Conventions, take all necessary measures to respect and ensure respect by Israel, and all other relevant parties, to the solemn obligations of international humanitarian law;
(b) Seek to hold Israel to the international standards by which all states are to be held, including the prohibition on annexation; and
(c) Ensure full accountability of Israeli political and military officials who are responsible for grave breaches of international law in the occupied Palestinian territory;
As civil society organizations, we come together to call the Canadian government to take all possible action to address this mounting human rights and humanitarian crisis under relevant Canadian laws, including the Special Economic Measures Act, and specifically to live up to our country’s responsibilities under Article 1 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
As a minimum, we call on the Canadian government to:
- publicly condemn Israeli security operations in Gaza and demand an end to all breaches of international humanitarian law and international human rights law;
- insist that Israel end its blockade of Gaza; and
- implement an arms embargo, and press for a comprehensive arms embargo at the level of the UN Security Council; as well as,
- impose a ban on all goods originating from illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory entering Canada as well as a ban on Canadian companies operating in illegal settlements or trading in settlement goods.
Copied to:
Marc-André Blanchard, Head of Canada’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations
Justice and Human Rights Government Standing Committee c/o Chair, Anthony Housefather
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Senate Standing Committee, c/o Chair A. Raynell Adreychuk
Human Rights Senate Standing Committee, c/o Chair Wanda Elaine Thomas Bernard
Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Group c/o Chair, MP Tabbara
Elizabeth May, Leader of Green Party of Canada
Andrew Scheer, Leader of Conservative Party of Canada
Mario Beaulieu Acting Head of the Bloc Québécois
Jagmeet Singh, Leader of NDP
Hélène Laverdière, NDP Foreign Affairs Critic
Erin O’Toole, Conservative Party of Canada Foreign Affairs Critic
Luc Thériault, Bloc Québécois Foreign Affairs Critic
Deborah Lyons, Canadian Ambassador to Israel
Douglas Proudfoot, Representative of Canada to the Palestinian Authority
Nabil Maroof, Chief Representative, Palestinian General Delegation, Palestinian Delegation to Canada
Signed by the following human rights, civic society, faith, labour, student and other groups.
- Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement pour une Paix Juste
- Al-Haq (Palestine)
- Canadian Arab Federation (CAF)
- Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME)
- Amnesty International-Canada
- Independent Jewish Voices Canada
- Canadian Friends of Sabeel (CFOS)
- The Canadian Palestinian Foundation of Quebec
- Canadian Federation of Students Ontario
- United Jewish People’s Order – Canada
- Solidarity For Palestinian Human Rights-Queen’s University
- Palestinian and Jewish Unity, Montreal
- Canada Palestine Association
- Regina Peace Council
- Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC)
- Encounter-EMEM for Israel-Palestine Peace Activities
- Socialist Project
- International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS)
- The Council of Canadians Montreal Chapter
- The Council of Canadians London Chapter
- Nonviolence International, Washington
- Holy Land Trust, Bethlehem
- Camp Micah: Leadership for Peace and Justice for High School Students in South Western Ontario
- Justice For Palestinians, Calgary
- Palestine Solidarity Working Group – Sudbury
- Boycott from Within (Israeli citizens for BDS)
- Oakville Palestinian Rights Association (OPRA)
- Project Ploughshares Saskatoon
- Solidarity For Palestinian Human Rights- Concordia
- Independent Jewish Voices – Victoria Chapter
- Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice (CUSJ)
- Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
- Canadian Peace Congress (CPC)
- Palestinian Canadian Congress
- Canadian Union of Postal Workers/Syndicat des travailleurs et travailleuses
- Student Christian Movement of Canada (SCM Canada)
- Mid-Islanders for Just and Peace in the Middle East-Vancouver Island
- No More Silence
- Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) Ontario
- Toronto BDS Action
- Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation (BBCF)
- Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) Victoria
- Jewish Voices – Winnipeg
- Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Committee–University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Association
- People for Peace, London
- Solidarity With Palestine, St. John’s
- Quebec BDS
- Socialist Action
- NDP Socialist Caucus
- Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
- Al Quds Committee
- Actions for Palestine-Toronto
- United for Palestine-Toronto
- No Way to Treat a Child- Toronto/GTA
- Canadian Council for Justice and Peace
- Niagara BDS Coalition
- Ontario Public Interest Research Group-Carleton
- Friends of Kashmir Committee Canada
- Lanark Action for Social Change
- Toronto Action for Change
- The Jewish Liberation Theology Institute, Hamilton
- VANA Saskatoon (Veterans Against Nuclear Arms Saskatoon)
- Conscience Canada.
- International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) – Canada
- Women in Solidarity with Palestine (WSP) – Toronto
- Catholics for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land (CJPHL) Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
- National United Network for Justice and Peace in Israel Palestine
- Former Canadian Eccumenical Accompaniers (Eccumenical Accompaniment Program Palestine Israel-EAPPI)
- Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Ryerson Chapter
- Palestine Study Group: Vernon – Kelowna
- Amnesty International: Kelowna Group
- New Socialists
- Socialists.ca
- Friends of Palestine at Trinity Western University
- Syrian Arab Association of Canada
- Mennonite Church Manitoba Working Group for the Palestine-Israel Resolution.
- Idle No More-Ontario
- Bathurst United Church of Canada
- University of Waterloo Students for Palestinian Human Rights (UW SPHR)
- De-Colonizer, Israel
- Canadian Boat to Gaza
- Quill Plains (Wynyard) Chapter, Council of Canadians
- Canada Palestine Support Network (CanPalNet), Vancouver
- Palestine Solidarity Network – Edmonton
- Beit Zatoun – Toronto
- Zatoun, Fair Trade olive oil from Palestine
- Rumbo a Gaza
- Parkdale, Communist Party of Canada
- Faculty for Palestine
- Council of Canadians, Peterborough and Kawarthas Chapter
- McGill Students for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR)
- Kia Ora Gaza (New Zealand/Aotearoa)
- Child and Youth Care Student Union, Ryerson
- Science for Peace, Toronto
- Buycott Palestine
- Earth Chronicle Productions
- Al-Haadi Musalla
- Toronto Students for Justice in Palestine
- Educators for Justice, Waterloo District Catholic School Board
ACTIONS
Write to the Canadian Government
Act now by aending a letter to Prime Minister & Global Affairs Minister Champagne, with copies to opposition leaders and critics, relevant house and senate chairs, and diplomats.It takes less than 2 minutes to send a letter.
Sign Petition
Sign individual petition joining in the call to the Canadian government to respect its own domestic law, the Special Economic Measures Act, and its responsibility under Article 1 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, by implementing a military embargo and economic sanctions on the military state of Israel until the blockade on Gaza is lifted.
Organizations Join the Call
Organizations wishing to join the campaign can sign HERE
In Canada that call is for #economicsanctions #militaryembargo until the blockade is lifted.
Listen to Rania Muhareb, legal researcher with Al Haq with Roger Waters on impunity for Israeli killing in Gaza, April 2018, Barcelona:
Past contact with Canadian Government:
During 2019, messages were sent by close to 100 people to Prime Minister & Global Affairs Minister Freeland, with copies to opposition leaders and critics, relevant house and senate chairs, and diplomats. CLICK HERE to read the letter sent.
During the 2019 Canadian Federal Election people sent this message to ALL the Candidates running in your riding. CLICK HERE to read the message sent. The message was also sent to six federal party leaders with NO response. It seems clear that Gaza is not on the Canadian political agenda of any of the parties.
