Pressure the Canadian Government to Condemn Israel & Protect Palestine

On May 15th the Constituency Youth Council (CYC) sat down to speak to Canadian MPs about the Ethnic cleansing that is occurring in Palestine. The CYC holds politicians accountable for their actions and voices citizens' needs directly to MPs. However, within a few minutes of discussing a six-step plan that Canadian MPs should bring to Parliament to protect Palestine, the speaker was cut off. They were told by Jean Yip, the MP in Scarborough, that what is happening in Palestine is tragic, but a two-sided story. MP Yip asked  whether the speech would take over ten minutes, clearly indicating she did not want to dedicate her time to Palestine. After this, a youth asked MP Yip if Canada has any plans to halt weapons sales to Israel and MP Yip reiterated that what's happening is a two-sided story. She was reminded that she and other Canadian MP's recently voted to sell MORE weapons to Israel and claimed that she had forgotten she'd done that.

Our MPs are apathetic to the Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine. Trudeau has made it clear that he's in favour of apartheid against the Palestinian people. Canada thinks that because they simultaneously send money to protect Palestinians, their support of Israel is okay. But they continuously fund Israel's genocide of Palestinian people. We urge you to email your MP's with this letter that outlines the six-steps created by Palestinian Canadians.

"To the attention of the Canadian government, or more specifically: MP Jean Yip, Minister of Defence, Harjit Sajjan, Minister of foreign affairs, Marc Garneau, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,

I am writing to express my concern about the Canadian government’s dismissal of the Ethnic cleansing occuring in Palestine. Israel has and continues to commit genocide, partly because of Canada’s funding and support. Why is Israel not being held accountable for their blatant disregard of international law? Israel only continues to violate law because international governments give them the means to do so. Moving forward, Canadian citizens urge you to stop being complicit in the genocide of Palestinian people and bring the following suggestions to Parliament for immediate execution:

1) Cut all funding and sale of weapons to the state of Israel. Every dollar is a dollar to kill a Palestinian.

2) Immediately cease all imports and exports to the state of Israel and up any possible imports and exports to Palestinian land (Gaza Strip and West Bank exclusively).

3) Provide immediate emergency aid to Palestinians living in Gaza Strip and West Bank (These are currently blocked by the IDF and Canada must do everything within their power to provide medical aid to those injured).

4) Provide an emergency fund to restore cities that have been destroyed by Israeli air strikes. Ensure this fund goes directly to Palestinian citizens and not through Israel so that it isn’t intercepted.

5) Publicly condemn the Israeli government for their violent attacks on the Palenstinian people. In doing so, acknowledge that Palestinian people have no reliable defence system. This is not a two-sided conflict.

6) Immediately request that Israel open the borders for Palestinians who seek refuge.

We are aware that these requests are drastic and not all will be immediately possible but the Canadian government must show their support and protection of Palestine. They must listen to and stand with Canadian Politicians like Jagmeet Singh and Joel Harden, who have spoken out against Israel. The Canadian government must condemn Israel exclusively and stop funding Israel immediately or they are complicit in hundreds of deaths.

There’s no peace in the Middle East without the liberation of Palestine. This is not two-sided. This is not a conflict. This is not a war. This is genocide.

I urge you to act now and protect Palestine.

Sincerely,

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