News and Updates
NDP convention to debate pro-Palestinian resolutions
Over the past three days more than 800 individuals have emailed the NDP leadership asking them to resist efforts to suppress debate on Palestinian rights at the convention.
Just Peace Advocates joins 550+ Organisations call to UN Human Rights Council including sanctions
Rooted in institutionalised oppression, displacement, and dispossession of the Palestinian people since the start of the Nakba in 1948, Palestinians continue to experience an ongoing-Nakba – an ongoing reality of Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid. Since 3 November 2020, Humsa...
CBC has changed the headline to say West Bank.
An article appeared on the CBC website on March 16th using an Associated Press Article, entitled New Dead Sea scrolls found in desert cave in Israel. Father Robert Assaly contcted the CBC, to point out this was...
Applied Research Proposal Call
Art: The Art of Occupied Palestine, Palestinian artist: Taqi Spateen, Just Peace Advocates supports research-based advocacy. This begins with the facts that further the principles of human rights and international law. Research information is critical to support Just...
Canada’s public pension board urged to divest from companies identified as violating human rights by the United Nations
On March 8, over 70 organizations along with dozens of individuals contacted the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board about its investment in funds related to Israeli occupation of Palestine and the Syrian Golan Heights.
Canada silent on India’s colonization of Kashmir
Last week a few media sources reported on India’s evictions of forest dwellers based on an AFP report. Canadian media continued to be silent on the Indian occupation of Kashmir. In 1948, Canada’s UN representative Andrew McNaughton took the...
Join us for a NEW #Justice4ElHalabi Social Media Storm – Sunday, 14 March
LAST TIME, your tweets alone reached 3.1 million people – and thousands of you participated. With Mohammed El-Halabi, Palestine’s “Humanitarian Hero,” facing a new unjust Israeli hearing this week, join us on Sunday, March 14 in a social media...
We join with Samidoun & 300+ other organizations to say #FreePalestinianStudents
Just Peace Advocates has joined Samidoun’s campaign to #FreePalestinianStudents. The Coalition is pleased to be among 300+ organizations from around the world who support the campaign.
CPPIB urged to divest from Israeli war crimes
Over 200 have signed on to urge the CPPIB to divest from Israeli war crimes. Write letter 70+ organizations from across Canada and around the world, and 130+ individuals including former federal members of parliament Libby Davies & Jim Manly, former UN...
Political Advocacy and National Liberation are not “Terrorism”
Just Peace Advocates was one of an initial 25 groups that joined Canada Palestine Association to endorse a call to reject moves by the Israeli government and its lobby in Canada to criminalize Palestinian advocacy. Among these groups...