On June 22, 2020 the Palestine House in Mississauga, ON started a petition calling on the Canadian government to condemn “Israel’s Illegal Annexation of the West Bank” and to impose “sanctions, such as suspending the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement and prohibiting all trade with illegal Israeli settlements.”
Here is the Palestine House’s online petition to Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Palestine House’s petition:
Stop Israel’s Illegal Annexation of the West Bank
Palestine House started this petition to Prime Minister of Canada/Premier ministre du Canada Justin Trudeau and 2 others
After 40 years of the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem and 53 years of illegal military occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced its intention to annex large portions of the West Bank starting in July, with full backing from the Trump administration.
Israeli control of Palestinian territories is illegal under international law, which is clear in its emphasis on the “inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force.” Despite numerous UN resolutions urging Israel to end its occupation, Israel has chosen to continue on the path of settler-colonialism, apartheid, land seizure and forcible displacement of Palestinians.
Indeed, annexing territory without granting full citizenship rights to the three million Palestinians in the West Bank constitutes apartheid; Palestinians would be left in nominally autonomous and disconnected enclaves under Israeli rule.
We call on the Trudeau government to condemn the annexation and take action against it.
Canada must abide by its stated commitment to international law and the rules-based order by pledging meaningful steps against Israel’s unilateral annexations. This must include the imposition of sanctions, such as suspending the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement and prohibiting all trade with illegal Israeli settlements.
If recent history is any indication, verbal rebukes are insufficient, and only concrete action can ensure that Israel is deterred from its imminent violations of international law.
We can no longer stand by and be complicit.
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