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MEDIA RELEASE Version française ci-dessous 22 JULY 2026 OTTAWA — Over seventy human rights, labour, faith, legal, and other civil society organizations from across Canada are speaking out in defence of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, its leadership, and its curatorial independence amidst organized pressure campaigns surrounding its exhibition Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and […]
The Palestinian Canadian Congress has joined more than 70 human rights and civil society organizations across Canada in the following statement supporting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and its curatorial independence. We, the undersigned human rights and civil society organizations, write to express our support for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), its […]
The opening of Nakba: Past and Present at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights represents a historic achievement for Palestinian Canadians and for all those committed to justice, dignity, and truth. For the first time, a Canadian governmental agency recognizes the Nakba. This acknowledgment affirms both the historical and ongoing realities of Palestinian dispossession and […]
Clearmeadow Public School in Newmarket. Twitter/Clearmeadow PS Your browser does not support the audio tag. Clearmeadow Public School is facing controversy after a planned visit from Israeli youth leaders was cancelled following pressure from concerned advocacy groups. The Newmarket school had scheduled a visit from the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s Shinshinim program, which was set to […]
Police investigators examine the exterior of a synagogue in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Que., where an incendiary device was ignited. (Francois Joly/Radio-Canada) Anti-Palestinian language, swastika left in Brookfield High School washroom Parents and advocates are calling on the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board to address anti-Palestinian racism after hateful graffiti was found last week at a local high school. “It’s […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement from the Palestinian Canadian Congress Two years have passed since Gaza was set ablaze — two years of devastation, of resistance, and of resilience. The world continues to bear witness to a people who, despite unimaginable suffering, refuse to disappear. We remember the children whose laughter was silenced, the mothers who […]
Palestinian Canadian’s and Israeli Canadian’s react to Canada, Australia and Britain recognizing a Palestinian state on Sunday ahead of the United Nation general assembly meetings in New York. Resource : https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2025/09/21/canadians-react-to-canada-britain-and-australia-recognizing-a-palestinian-state
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 21, 2025 Ottawa, ON – The Palestinian Canadian Congress (PCC) welcomes today’s announcement by Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada will recognize the State of Palestine. This recognition affirms the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination, dignity, and sovereignty—a right that has been denied for far too long. At the same […]
Sam Hersh, a member of Independent Jewish Voices Ottawa, stands in front of Bell High School, where this year’s valedictorian made comments about Palestinians and Truth and Reconciliation last week in her speech. Hersh, along with some other local advocacy groups, stands in solidarity with her sentiments, and calls on the OCDSB to issue an […]
Canada has joined the U.K., Norway, Australia and New Zealand in sanctioning Israeli lawmakers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for ‘inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank,’ by calling for Palestinians to be displaced for expanded Israeli settlements. The United States has condemned Canada and four other countries for imposing sanctions on two Israeli […]
