Canada is now the leading country in the G7 on the Palestinian issue. We stood together as a community with a clear message: enough is enough. We got real change to our foreign policy – but it is not enough. The genocide continues, and the effects of what the Israeli army has done will haunt generations of Gazans. With your support, we can make sure Canada never falls on the wrong side of history again – for Palestine or any other conflict.   

Right now, Palestinians in Gaza are starving to death, in what the UN calls the worst humanitarian crisis of our generation. Canada‘s response to this was the cut funding to the one organization that can provide an effective level of aid to Gazans based on spurious accusations from the Israeli government. It took a monumental effort from our community and hours, days and weeks of heavy lifting by our advocacy officers, but together we managed to get funding reinstated. 

Since the start of the genocide, we’ve connected with Palestinian Canadians, who are deeply concerned about halting violence, ensuring their families’ safety, and preventing Canadian complicity in crimes against innocent civilians. Despite significant flaws, we got a family reunification process and successfully campaigned for a comprehensive weapons ban among all involved parties. Our advocacy continues on these fronts and beyond. 

We engaged with leaders of all levels of society and government about the unprecedented rise in Islamophobia. We took hundreds of media interviews, advised multiple masjids after Islamophobic incidents, organized multiple advocacy days at government legislators and saw Canada’s first municipal Islamophobia officer hired in Brampton, Ontario.