News and Updates
Palestinian rights advocacy and international law
As Palestine solidarity advocacy on university campuses and in other settings is under attack, lawyers and legal scholars have raised concern about the attempts to silence those who speak out about well documented breaches of international law.
Release: Picketers interrupt the morning shift at Pratt & Whitney, aerospace giant that supplies engines for Israel’s drones and war planes
On Tuesday morning, more than two hundred workers and union members from across the GTA picketed the Mississauga manufacturing plant of defence contractor Pratt & Whitney Canada. As Israel pursues its deadly assault on Gaza for a third month,...
Dec. 11th Global Strike, and an important statement by the Health Sector of the Palestinian NGOs Network
Be sure to join with the Global Strike on Dec. 11. A statement from the Health Sector of the Palestinian NGOs Network concerning the distressing escalation and targeted assaults on hospitals and medical personnel in Palestine by the Israeli occupation....
Solidarity with the Peace 11: Why the HESEG Foundation for Lone Soldiers should have its charitable status revoked
The webinar explored what may be Canada’s most important contribution to Palestinian dispossession. Under the cover of charity, organizations are bilking Canadian taxpayers to fund the Israeli colonial project. Charities in Canada send a quarter billion dollars a year to...
Canadian Charities providing money towards Palestinian dispossession
Check out information related to Canadian charities support of war crimes, apartheid and racism.
Canadian Charities reporting donations to Israel in 2022
The following information has been provided through an ATIP received in November 2023, which showed over 140 Canadian organizations providing more than $132M Canadian to charities in Israel.
A dozen charities revoked in the last few years that were providing funds to Israel
Read more about charity donations to organizations in Israel. Revoked Charities There was information written in mainstream media about the revocation of Beth Oloth and Gates of Mercy in 2019, however, interestingly it seems that a number...
Media coverage of notice of intention to seek prosecution of Canadian politicians for complicity in war crimes in Gaza
Liberal cabinet members have been notified that they & other Canadian officials may be individually criminally liable for their role in aiding & abetting war crimes & crimes against humanity. See media coverage, and sign petition.
ICJP’s Legal Working Group for Canadian Accountability issues Canadian government with notice of intention to seek prosecution of politicians for complicity in war crimes in Gaza
Toronto, 16 November 2023 – The ICJP’s Legal Working Group for Canadian Accountability (ICJP LWGCA) has issued a notice to the Government of Canada of its intention to prosecute Canadian officials for their role in aiding and abetting Israel’s perpetration...
Just Peace Advocates was pleased to join the international call: Ending complicity in international crimes: a two-way arms embargo on Israel
Just Peace Advocates joined other organizations to demand that States that have provided and continue to provide arms and other forms of military assistance to Israel, adhere to their legal obligations and act resolutely and urgently to prevent Israel from...
