The CDPQ December 31, 2023 year-end report includes over $14 billion of investments in companies complicit with Israeli war crimes and genocide. This represents just over 3 percent of the CDPQ total holdings of $434 billion. The CDPQ had investments totaling $1.5 billion in seven companies listed in the United...
Genocide is intentional dismantling of another’s humanity. It is the reduction of a proud, educated, high-functioning ancient society into penniless objects of charity, forced to eat the unspeakable to survive; to live in filth and disease with nothing to hope for except an end to bombs and bullets raining on...
Palestinian and Jewish Unity and Independent Jewish Voices Montreal call on clients of Scotiabank to divest from the bank and for the general public to boycott Scotiabank. As was the case in the campaign against apartheid in South Africa, it is at that point that banks and corporations profiting from...
Feiglin writes that the Israeli army must “designate certain open areas on the Sinai border, adjacent to the sea, in which the civilian population will be concentrated, far from the built-up areas that are used for launches and tunneling. In these areas, tent encampments will be established, until relevant emigration...
Streams of Palestinians filed into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Monday to salvage what they could from the vast destruction left in the wake of Israel’s offensive, a day after the Israeli military announced it was withdrawing troops from the area.Many came back to the Gaza Strip’s...
Israel isn’t being “forced” to kill Palestinian children, it is knowingly choosing to.The “human shields” narrative is just one more instance in which Israel pretends to be the victim while actually being the victimizer.They lied about beheaded babies so that they could get away with murdering babies. They lied about mass rapes so that they could...
The reference to the censure of Yves Michaud, the use of antisemitism as a weapon, the refusal of François Legault to excuse the defamatory nature of the charges made against Yves Michaud in the National Assembly bring us to the continued use of antisemitism as a weapon and the continued...
Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest share of Israeli killings, at an average of 37 mothers per day since October 7.The numbers above, from the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza and the Red Crescent Society respectively, only...
But the most important lesson from the vampire cartoon affair is that self-described leftist MPs who echoed the Israel lobby’s condemnations of a cartoon also have failed to attend protests against Canada’s contribution to an incredible injustice in Palestine. That is not simply a coincidence. It reflects a fundamental concession...