The Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) came into effect over 25 years ago, on January 1, 1997. Since then Canadian exports to Israel have doubled – but so have our exports to other countries. Exports to Israel still amount to a tiny portion of all Canadian exports. So why is CIJA pressing the Canadian government to expand a trade agreement with a country credibly accused of genocide?
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Canada joined the U.K., France, and nine other countries who announced they would ban Israeli goods produced in the occupied Palestinian territories as a way to pressure Israel’s government to crack down on settler violence. OFIP asks the Ministers why we don’t also ban the settlers who are committing the violence. Read our letter.
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A small group called “Canadians against genocide” used the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa as a dramatic backdrop to their call to all Canadians, and to the Canadian government, to take action to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has revoked the charitable status of ten Jewish Canadian charities since the summer of 2024, based on multiple violations of Canadian law including Israeli military support. Read more.
Canadian Zionists initially intended to focus the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on the Holocaust, antisemitism and the need for a Jewish State. Ironically, a tiny addition to the Museum referring to the Nakba, has turned that upside down by provoking a long overdue public discussion about the violence involved in the creation of Israel in 1948. Read more.
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