Tell the Canadian Government to Stop Criminalizing Palestinian Advocacy

In 2002, the Liberal government of the day listed several Islamic Liberation Organizations on Canada’s so-called “Terrorist list”. Then in 2003, they also added most Palestinian resistance groups to the same list and now the current government has listed Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network advocacy organization, as a “terrorist entity”.

The Israeli government and its lobby groups have clearly been behind these listings; their main objective is to suppress any solidarity work for Palestinian liberation and suppress criticism of the Zionist settler colonialist project (Israel).

Instead of banning Zionist organizations that are blatantly violating Canadian Law, International Humanitarian Law, the 4th Geneva Convention and international Court of Justice rulings, the Canadian Government rewards them by implementing their dictates and giving them billions of dollars in tax-deductible monies.

The Canadian Government is also directly involved in the recent Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people by supplying Israel with military equipment and by sending Canadian special forces, including the Joint Task Force 2 (JTF2), to Israel “to assist with intelligence gathering, evacuation planning, to provide security for embassies and to liaise with host militaries.”

We must continue to show our solidarity with the Palestinian people and not be intimidated with government edicts; lets show true internationalist solidarity with Palestinian advocacy and liberation.