Despite the supposed ‘ceasefire,’ Gaza is still being starved, bombed, and invaded by Israel in real time. The genocide in Palestine has not stopped and Canada is complicit. The bombs and shells raining down on Gazans are being made with Canadian technology and assembled with hundreds of Canadian parts.

Every year, Canada exports over a billion dollars worth of military goods to U.S arms giants like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon— the vast majority of which are shipped without permits, regulation, or any tracking to their final destination. Those exports are then integrated into F35 bomber jets, Elbit drones, Apache attack helicopters, and hundreds of weapons systems used by Israel to terrorize and kill Palestinians.

The Liberal government has consistently lied to Canadians and denied this reality, but Palestinians and their allies have refused to be deceived. Brave, tireless organizers across the country have exposed the lies and demanded a full two-way arms embargo on Israel, an end to the occupation, and justice for Palestinians.

They have done so often at a significant personal cost. From media smears to job loss to escalated surveillance and policing, Palestine solidarity organizers are being met with repression across the country. But the Palestine solidarity movement refuses to be intimidated and slowed down in their quest for justice for the Palestinian people.  

On Monday, February 16th, join Avi Lewis and Dr. Yipeng Ge for a critical conversation on Canada’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, the rise of anti-Palestinian racism, and what we can do collectively to end the occupation and fight for liberation and return.

Dr. Yipeng Ge is a primary care physician and public health practitioner based on the traditional, unceded, and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. In his clinical practice, he works in family medicine practice and refugee health at a community health centre. He has worked on and studied the structural and colonial determinants of health in both the settler colonial contexts of so-called Canada and occupied Palestine.