Canada’s recent vote for a ceasefire at the UN lessens this country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. But this small victory for popular mobilization was quickly undermined by the government joining the US-led Red Sea shipping coalition and is far overshadowed by Canada’s innumerable forms of support for Israel.
With its unspeakable horrors in Gaza Israel has stirred the most sustained antiwar and internationalist mobilization since the (Canadian backed) US war in Vietnam. Last weekend protests took place in 30 cities with over 3,000 marching in Montréal in the eleventh weekend in a row of mass protests. The popular uprising pressured the Trudeau government to shift its usual stance and vote against the US/Israel position at the UN.
Below are 11 demands that would lessen Canadian complicity with Israeli violence and colonialism: (more...)
11 ways for Canada to end complicity with Israel’s crimes
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