Category Archives: Palestine
Merchants of death celebrate Israel’s ‘dream’ at Paris Air Show
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75th Anniversary of Al Nakba • May 15, 1948: A Brief History of Palestine and Its People
Palestine, the mythic “land without people for a people without land” was already home to 700,000 Palestinians in 1919.
The standard Zionist position is that they showed up in Palestine in the late 19th century to reclaim their ancestral homeland. Jews bought land and started building up the Jewish community there. They were met with increasingly violent opposition from the Palestinian Arabs, presumably stemming from the Arabs’ inherent anti-Semitism. The Zionists were then forced to defend themselves and, in one form or another, this same situation continues up to today.
The problem with this explanation is that it is simply not true.
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• Video: The Catastrophe May 15, 1948
• Video: The Catastrophe May 15, 1948 – Youth for Democratic Renewal
75th Anniversary of Al Nakba • May 15, 1948: End the Catastrophe imposed on the Palestinian People! Support Palestinian Resistance until Liberation!
May 15 is the day we commemorate Al Nakba – the Catastrophe – a day marking a “continuous journey of pain, loss and injustice” for the Palestinian people. It marks the day that some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes during the 1948 war. Palestinians were forced from their lands and homes due to military attacks by Zionist forces, supported by the British and U.S. governments. The Israeli Zionist forces attacked 774 cities and villages, and occupied 80 per cent of the Palestinian soil after killing nearly 15,000 Muslim and Christian civilians. Those who survived were forced to migrate to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and neighbouring countries, such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.
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Join Events on 75th Anniversary of Al Nakba
May 15 marks the 75th anniversary of the start of an ethnic cleansing operation that resulted in some 750,000 Palestinians being driven out of their homes and their lands by Israeli military forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The Israeli army attacked 774 cities and villages, eventually occupying 80 per cent of Palestinian lands, after killing nearly 15,000 Muslim and Christian civilians. Those who survived were forced to migrate to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and neighbouring countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Every year Al Nakba is marked by demonstrations in Palestine and other countries around the world.
In 1952 Canada’s Immigration Act officially restricted non-European immigration to Canada in an effort to “keep Canada white.” Despite this, in 1956, Canada launched an ad hoc resettlement program with the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine for Palestinian refugees who were displaced from their homeland. Most of those who came to Canada in the first group of refugees were industrial or construction workers.
The crimes committed in the past continue to this day with more forced removals of Palestinians from their lands every day. All peace loving Canadians must condemn these violations of human rights and demand that the settlements be stopped, violence be ended, and the right of return be respected. The youth in Palestine and those of Palestinian origin born and raised in Canada are boldly affirming the Palestinian right to be. They deserve everyone’s support.
Today we are posting on our site information and events on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of Al Nakba, the Catastrophe which will be commemorated around the world on May 14. We encourage you to join events if you can.
Palestinians mark Land Day by stepping up the resistance
This year on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of Land Day, the Palestinian people are joined by those in the diaspora and the peoples of the world in demanding that the Israeli government be held to account for its violation of international humanitarian law and stop the genocide it is committing against the Palestinian people.
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World Zionist Organization to invest $8.5 millions of state funds for West Bank outpost legalizations
We are posting a report from the Haaretz Israeli newspaper on a scheme to “promote(d) the legalization of outposts and their connection to the electricity grid.” How can these outposts in the occupied West Bank be legalized by linking to the settlements, which are themselves illegal and in violation of international law?
(July 12) – In recent weeks, the World Zionist Organization Settlement Division has mapped dozens of outposts to determine where improvements in security can be made, and where help in planning is required ahead of legalizing them.
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Land for new US embassy in Jerusalem was owned by Palestinians before 1948, files show
The fact is that the vast majority of the land in the state of Israel is land that is owned by Palestinians (TS)
Ahead of U.S. President Biden’s visit to Israel and the West Bank, Palestinian families in the U.S. and East Jerusalem present documents – including rental contracts going back decades – testifying that they owned the land before it was seized by Israel after the 1948 war
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Palestinians ‘are not animals in a zoo’
By Ramzy Baroud
Redefining the role of the ‘victim intellectual’
Years before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, U.S. media introduced many new characters, promoting them as “experts” who helped ratchet up propaganda, ultimately allowing the U.S. government to secure enough popular support for the war.
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False foundation of B’nai Brith’s data
– Canada Palestine Association –
Every year, B’nai Brith Canada releases its “Audit of AntiSemitic Incidents.” This report is then heavily marketed to multiple levels of government and often shows up in arguments for adopting certain policies, like the regressive International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition and flawed online hate legislation.
The rest of the wasteful and farcical tour
Royal jubilee tours’ stop in Canada not welcome
Heritage Canada announced that during the visit of Prince Charles and Camilla to Ottawa on May 18, Charles will be invested as an Extraordinary Commander of the Order of Military Merit by the Governor General, lay a wreath at the National War Memorial, then meet with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress.
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Condemn Israeli occupation forces’ attack on Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
Stand with the Palestinian People
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) vigorously condemns the Israeli attack on the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on April 15.
46th Anniversary of Palestinian Land Day: Uphold Palestinian Right of Return! Support Palestinian Resistance!
This year marks the 46th anniversary of Land Day, which commemorates the events of March 30, 1976, when six Palestinians from Arab villages inside the Green Line were shot and killed by Israeli forces while protesting the confiscation of 5,500 acres of land from the Galilee. Since then, Land Day has been commemorated by Palestinians inside Israel as well as in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem and around the world | Five articles
In Palestine rallies and marches mark Land Day. In the towns where the six martyrs were killed 46 years ago, Palestinians lay wreaths at their graves.
Yom-el-Ard – Day of the Land: Symbol of Palestinian Resistance
On the 46th anniversary of Land Day
This article from our archives provides essential information on the vital issue of land and the rising of 1976, when the Palestinian citizens of Israel revolted against the Israeli government, which had just announced new and extensive land expropriation plans in the Galilee. Continue reading
Criminal cold-blooded assassination of Palestinian resistance fighters
Speeches in the UN and killings on the ground
On the eve of Bennet’s trip
To the UN General Assembly
The army killed five Palestinians.
Now the armed forces are girding
For an escalation in the Occupied Territories.
Along Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway
Huge signs declare:
“Peace is the future
Of our children –
Celebrating the first anniversary
Of the peace accords.”
This refers, of course,
To the accords
With the UAE and Bahrain.
Peace with the Palestinians?
Who needs it?
Gush Shalom Statement, Sept. 29, 2021
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Why Ireland’s pandering to Israel is treason
By David Cronin, Electronic Intifada
(Sept 24) – Ireland’s government will not tolerate the truth about how it panders to Israel.
That is the unavoidable conclusion from efforts made by the foreign ministry in Dublin to muzzle the human rights lawyer Susan Power.
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Banner drop decries Air Show killer jet ‘entertainment’
“End the Illegal Occupation of Palestine” read the Banner dropped over the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto, on September 4, the opening day of the Toronto Air Show at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) grounds. The F-16 and F-35 fighter jets featured in the airshow are the kind used by Israel in the bombardment of unarmed men, women and children in Gaza earlier this year.
Palestinian flags were also boldly flying in defiance of the killer jets on exhibition as “entertainment.”
Canada has provided training to scores of Israeli pilots flying F-16s at the US-Canadian Exercise Maple Flag held in Cold Lake, Alberta.
Photo: GMP21
Germany: An enduring enemy of the Palestinian struggle
Germany’s contribution to the colonisation of Palestine over the years has been ideological, financial, physical and military | JOSEPH MASSAD*
(July 16) – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Israel two weeks ago and met Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, whose American parents came from San Francisco to colonise Palestine in July 1967. Bennett has boasted: “I’ve killed lots of Arabs in my life and there’s no problem with that.”
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In Memoriam Walid Bahlawan, June 5, 1936 – May 29, 2021
I was saddened to learn of the loss of Walid Bahlawan. He was a man whom one only has to meet once and yet is a friend for life. I had the opportunity to meet him when he visited our farm some years ago with a mutual friend. He had read our Dossier on Palestine and we had an animated discussion about his homeland and the current struggle of his people. He appreciated the beauty of nature and asked informed questions about the methods and yield of agriculture in the area. I was not surprised Walid had become a communist after emigrating to Canada, as it is little discussed how many Palestinian workers and peasants did so during their heroic fight for national liberation in the 1940s. I heard later that he had expressed interest in a return visit which unfortunately never materialized. Here is a poignant tribute to Walid from CPC (M-L):
Was Israeli looting in ’48 part of a broader policy to expel Palestinians? (I)
The dark reality of the Israel’s so-called War of Independence is illuminated in a new book on the massive looting of Palestinian property then, showing the link between the plunder and Ben-Gurion’s policy driving out the Palestinian inhabitants. The book’s name makes it clear from the start that the discussion is from a misleading colonial perspective | Like the author, the reviewer, Zionist historian BENNY MORRIS in Haaretz, refers to Palestinians as Arabs.
Palestine May 2021 in text and photos
The Electronic Intifada 3 June 2021
May 2021 marked a turning point in the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle for national liberation.
Israel, with its state-of-the-art military supplied and funded by Washington, was dealt a blow by the Palestinian armed resistance and unilaterally declared a ceasefire after 11 days of intense fire across the Gaza-Israel boundary.
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This Day. Netanyahu’s lesson from the Tiananmen Square massacre
June 4 is the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China. Concerning this event, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the time Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Ambassador to the United Nations and an American businessman with the Boston Consulting Group, was reported by the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot in November, 1989, to have said the following:
“Israel should have taken advantage of the suppression of the demonstrations in China, while the world’s attention was focused on these events, and should have carried out mass deportations of Arabs from the territories. Unfortunately, this plan I proposed did not gain support, yet I still suggest to put it into action.”
British government remains major ally of Zionist Israel
The British Government’s Permanent Representative at the UN recently made a statement concerning the current violence in Israel and the Israel-occupied Palestinian territories, including the Zionist regime’s savage bombardment of Gaza. The government makes little effort to disguise its support for Israel, since although it condemns violence in general, demanding “that this cycle of violence must end”, it only condemns the armed resistance of Hamas, the Palestinian organisation governing Gaza. According to the British government, Hamas is a “terrorist group”, and it therefore condemns so-called “acts of terrorism” carried out in defence of the Palestinian people, whose homeland has been taken from them and whose territory is occupied by a foreign aggressor.
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Historic moment as the Irish Dáil supports Sinn Féin motion on Israeli annexation of Palestinian lands
A vote by the Dublin parliament on May 26 to adopt a Sinn Féin motion condemning the annexation of Palestinian lands by Israel has been hailed as a historic recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination. The vote came after thousands turned out across Ireland in support of Palestine the previous weekend in a dramatic display of the level of public anger in Ireland to the latest Israeli onslaught on the Gaza strip, which saw 248 Palestinians, including 66 children, killed by air strikes. Millions of people all over the world have taken to the streets in support of the heroic struggle of the Palestinian Resistance, and to protest against the criminal ethnic cleansing carried out by the Israeli Zionists. The Palestinian Resistance has demonstrated once more that they will continue to fight and expose the Zionists’ schemes to expel the Palestinians from their homeland.
As a sign of appreciation for the solidarity shown by Ireland’s recognition of their right to be, an Irish tricolour flag was raised above Ramallah City Hall in the West Bank on Thursday while Ireland’s national anthem ‘Amhrán na bhFiann’ played in the background.
Who is Naftali Bennett, the Israeli-American assassin?
When asked if he would instruct soldiers to kill Palestinian children, Bennett said, “They are not children — they are terrorists. We are fooling ourselves. I see the photos.”
Then-Minister of Education Bennett (left) with Netanyahu during a cabinet meeting, 2013 | Abir Sultan/AFP/Getty Images
By Tony Seed
An announcement of a new coalition government in Israel headed by Naftali Bennet is expected today.
Every head of Zionist Israel since its illegitimate formation in 1948 has either been a terrorist or the son or daughter of a terrorist.
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Canada – Shameless enabler of Israel’s crimes against humanity
By Margaret Villamizar
For all their laments about the violence and civilian lives lost in Gaza and Israel, the U.S. and Canada stand exposed as shameless enablers of Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity. Under the hoax of upholding high ideals they refuse to condemn Israel’s collective punishment of the Palestinians it has trapped inside Gaza, asserting that Israel has a right to defend itself against those who are resisting its crimes against the Palestinian people — the annexation of more and more of their lands as part of its policy of ethnic cleansing.
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