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Could the world overcome a US veto and send UN troops to Gaza to protect Palestinians? Could Canada help?
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.
(more…)Why Won’t Carney Say “Genocide?”
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…
(more…)The UN conference on the two state solution must not divert attention from the urgent task of ending the genocide in Gaza : analysts
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.
(more…)First anti zionist Jewish Congress attracts over 400 Jews from Europe, America and even Israel
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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Canada Talks Israel/Palestine 