Help Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU) by becoming a member
For more than twenty years, we have organized weekly vigils in solidarity with Palestine and meet people where they are to tell them about it. The vigils are held in front of schools and universities, metro stations, shops and during street and neighborhood festivities… So far, more than 500,000 flyers have been distributed to passers-by!
To support us, you can become a member, participate in the vigils, make a donation or all of these options at the same time. We look forward to working with you!
Schools promoting Israeli military must lose public susbsidies
Two Montreal Jewish schools. Herzliah and Bialik school has had at least 14 different visits from active or former Israeli soldiers since October 2023. A school gym is also used to teach students Israeli military combat methods
Federalism, New Hampshire, and the USS Liberty
In the specific case of the USS Liberty, the families of the military and civilian personnel who died in the attack (or since then) and the survivors deserve to have the assurance that the US did everything reasonably within its power to ascertain all the relevant facts of why Israeli forces attacked the Liberty. They also deserve to know why the federal government, so far, has declined to conduct a proper, comprehensive investigation to that end.
Hommage to Leila Shahid
Leila Shahid, who was born Leila al-Husseini Shahid on July 13, 1949, in Beirut, Lebanon, and died on February 18, 2026, in Lussan, France, was a Palestinian diplomat, General Delegate of Palestine to France from 1994 to 2005, and General Delegate of Palestine to the European Union, Belgium, and Luxembourg from 2005 to 2015.
Compromised peace? Oslo Accords figure deeply linked to Epstein network
The Norwegian diplomat who was a key architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords is facing a storm of corruption and blackmail allegations after new documents revealed he was deeply embedded in the inner circle of late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.Terje Rod-Larsen, a central figure in the Middle East “peace process” in the 1990s, is implicated in newly released United States Justice Department files and Norwegian media investigations that expose a relationship involving illicit loans, visa fraud for sex-trafficked women, and a beneficiary clause in Epstein’s will worth millions of dollars.
Israel Replicating a Genocidal Mindset
The Israeli genocide in Gaza is the product of long building “trends … political and social brutalization, the institutionalization of fascism and the systematic erosion of restraint, respectful language and the boundaries of what’s permitted and forbidden. Cruelty, violence and revenge stopped being seen as a deviation and became … legitimate options.”This is today’s Israel. The process of cultural corruption is not exactly the same as that of interwar Germany under Nazi influence but, as we have seen, there is enough of an overlap. And, the abdication of individual thought to an aggressive ideology is particularly similar, as are some of the horrible consequences.
Beyond the ‘Non-Debate’: Iran, Sanctions, and the Convenient Silence on US Imperial Decline
On Friday, January 23 in Montreal, I attended what was presented as a debate on Iran (organised by the Montreal based NGO Alternatives) and on how to express solidarity with people mobilizing in the streets. What struck me most, however, was hearing several of the...