The international social media lobbying site AVAAZ has launched a campaign to ban Israeli athletes from participating in the Olympic Games in Paris which begin next Friday, July 26th. The petition calls for a ban as long as Israel keeps up its murderous bombing campaign in Gaza. Already over 630,000 people have signed. Avaaz hopes for a million. Read more.
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A shocking story in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, based on interviews with Israeli soldiers and military officials, has undermined the widespread Israeli narrative which portrayed Hamas fighters as crazed antisemites who murdered 1200 innocent Israeli civilians. Read more.
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A somber crowd filled a Parliamentary Hall on Thursday, June 13th for “Palestine Day on the Hill”, organized by the Association of Palestinian Arab Canadians (APAC) in Ottawa under the slogan “From Nakba to Genocide”. Representatives of the NDP, Liberal Party of Canada and Green Party voiced their support for the Palestinian people and called for an end to the genocide. Read more.
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If you want to go beyond mainstream media, who can you trust to provide reliable information on the Israel/Palestine conflict? Here are some digital sources CTIP finds well informed and trustworthy. Some are pro-Palestinian, some are just “independent” and some are well, hard to classify. But all are interesting and in our judgement, reliable. Check them out….
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“The Jewish community in Canada is feeling frightened to a level that I have never seen,” Liberal MP Anthony Housefather told the House of Commons Justice Committee. But almost simultaneously a survey has revealed that most Canadians have no dislike of Jews. What gives? Read more…
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Canada Talks Israel/Palestine 