Craig Mokhiber thinks that there is a way for the UN General Assembly to get around the US veto and intervene to protect Palestinians in Gaza. Mokhiber is an American international human rights lawyer and former senior official with United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). He thinks Canada could play a role. Read more and watch my interview with him.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is willing to recognize the State of Palestine (albeit with conditions.) He also calls the situation of Palestinians in Gaza “intolerable” and calls for action by the UN. But he won’t pronounce the word “genocide”. CTIP explores why…
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This week’s UN conference on the Question of Palestine, co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia, has been denounced by Israel and the USA but has been gladly received by the PLO and Mahmood Abbas. Many are concerned that the conference could divert attention away from the most urgent issue – how to stop the blockade and the genocide in Gaza.
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Hundreds of Jewish intellectuals, scholars and activists joined with Palestinian human rights activists at the first anti zionist Jewish congress in Vienna, the birthplace of Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism. Among the participants were a number of Canadian Jews. Watch the CTIP interview with Sid Shnaid, member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada.…
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The Trump administration has formally requested that the U.N. remove Francesca Albanese from her role as the special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, citing her “virulent antisemitism and support for terrorism”. It seems her most recent report, explaining the corporate interests benefiting from the Israeli genocide has made him angry. Why? See our interview with Michael Lynk.
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Canada Talks Israel/Palestine 