Take Action for Palestine
An ongoing list of actions for folks in “Canada” to participate in. Updated daily.
Updated: January 23, 5:12 PM EST
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Resource Lists
Actions
In-Person Protests, Rallies, and Mobilizations
Online Protests, Rallies, and Mobilizations
Student Walkouts & School Strikes
Contacting Elected Officials
Holding Media & Institutions Accountable
Teach-Ins, Webinars, & Discussions
Petitions & Campaigns
Film Screenings, Art Builds, Exhibitions, Book Clubs, etc.
Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS)
Incident Reporting & Support
Moving Funds & Mutual Aid
Organizing & Volunteering
Submit an Action
Acknowledgements
Notes:
- This information is crowd-sourced. I try to include links to events wherever possible, but may not have any additional information than what has been submitted. Submitted events without links or organizer info will be noted!
- Sections are collapsible. Click beside the headers below to open or close a section. Best viewed on a computer screen.
Don’t know where to start? Many of these actions can be done in under 5 minutes. Try emailing or calling your representative, sending a letter to an institution demanding accountability, and signing a petition. Most of these actions contain scripts and templates + email/phone tools!
Resource Lists
🇨🇦 Canada 4 Palestine: Actions for a Ceasefire Now
- A resource that provides a daily summary of Canada's (in)action on the crisis, contact details for federal reps (and notes on which mailboxes are full), plus a range of phone scripts and email templates - including a new one each day for those of us who don't relent! UPDATE: Now you can FAX YOUR REPS!
🇨🇦 #PalSolidaritySitIn Toolkit
- Comprehensive guide for sit-ins at government or corporate offices to demand that Canada push for an immediate ceasefire, an end to the siege, an end to Canada's complicity, and a free Palestine.
🇨🇦 Arab Canadian Lawyers’ Association Guide: Employee Rights and Palestinian Support
- This document provides an overview of your rights (and their limitations) in the workplace when it comes to your ability to engage in speech or action that supports Palestine.
- This is not legal advice. Please consult a lawyer on our referral list if experiencing workplace reprisals for Palestinian support activities.
🇨🇦 Free Palestine Direct Action Toolkit
- A comprehensive toolkit that answers your questions about organizing (What about the legal stuff? How do I stay safe?) and provides action ideas and strategies for mobilizing.
- Developed by SURJ Toronto
🇨🇦 List of mental health professionals who are supporting Palestinians/those affected by the genocide
- List of counselling practices that offer counselling from an anti-racist, anti-oppressive lens for families of those who were killed in the Gaza genocide and anyone who has been affected
🇨🇦 Palestinian Rights in Canada: A Legal & Tactical Guide
- Created by Just Peace Advocates in June 2021
- Includes practical tips for activists, information about free speech, the right to protest, campus-specific issues, and surveillance and law enforcement.
All Out for Palestine – Digital Action Toolkit
- Comprehensive toolkit from the Palestinian Feminist Collective. Compiles information about actions (US focused) and BDS, solidarity statements, learning and teaching resources, organizations, news sources, mental health resources, repression and censorship, rights, talking points, and more.
All the Walls Will Fall: 2023 Palestine Liberation Resource List
- Curated by the Popular University of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)
- Very informative resource about the history of and theory on Palestinian resistance and struggle & the Israeli propaganda strategy
Blueprints for Change Grassroots Guide: Making Your Activism Accessible
- This guide is a compilation of grassroots knowledge intended for grassroots activists. It was developed as a rapid response to a question raised by organizers, and so it applies a more simplified editing and vetting process before publishing. The thoughts included in this guide come from existing organizer databases and pre-developed resources on related topics, and in many instances these guides also contain direct insight from grassroots organizers themselves.
Decolonize Palestine
- A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine.
Frequently asked questions: Israel's war on Gaza
- Answers to questions like “Is the Gaza Strip occupied by Israel?”, “Does Israel have a right to self-defence in Gaza?”, and “Why do we need a ceasefire and not a “humanitarian pause”’
Gaza Media Resources: for Librarians, Archivists & Information Activists
- An open-access library of resources in various formats, PNGs for social media cards & PDFs for guides
- Includes tips for fact checkers, tips for filming human rights abuses in Palestine, tips before archiving and preserving war footage, and batch exporting media from Telegram
Honoring Dr. Refaat Alareer
- The following is a collection of work by Dr. Refaat Alareer, selected by students and faculty of the English program at CUNY Graduate Center
How to Organize a Gaza Solidarity Action Pod: A Guide for Action and Grounding [NEW]
- Created by Seeding Sovereignty
- This guide includes metta meditation, step-by-step guides to congressional phone banking including call scripts, community-sourced resources for solidarity, education, and action, and somatic grounding
Ida in the Middle: Curriculum Guide and Other Teaching Resources about Palestine
Librarians & Archivists with Palestine (LAP) Gaza 2023 Action Toolkit
- Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP) is a network of self-defined librarians, archivists, and information workers in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
Palestine 101 for Educators
- A resource compiled by Ronnie Almonte providing information about Palestine and education
Palestine Solidarity Resource List
- A comprehensive resource list by @blossoming.resistance including educational information, book lists, documentaries, actions, webinars, social media accounts to follow, and more.
Queer Palestine Solidarity Resources for Organizers
- Resource list for queer Palestine solidarity organizers. Includes organizations, social media accounts, action inspiration and resources, other toolkits and resources lists, and readings. Living document – please add more resources and correct any errors.
Actions
“Please test for COVID and wear a well-fitted N95 mask if you are attending an in-person action. We are still in the midst of a pandemic and all of our struggles are connected; disabled and immunocompromised people deserve protection and safety.
If you have trouble accessing / affording masks, you can request them from Donate A Mask Canada or contact Masks4EastVan@gmail.com if you are in the Vancouver area” - via Canada 4 Palestine resource list
In-Person Protests, Rallies, and Mobilizations
🇨🇦Hunger Strike for Gaza
- Canadians are on a rotating hunger strike to demand an arms embargo on Israel
- Organized by World Beyond War and endorsed by Independent Jewish Voices Canada
- Join | Instructions | Learn More
Samidoun: Calendar of Resistance for Palestine! Events and actions around the world
Online Protests, Rallies, and Mobilizations
🇨🇦 Sign up for weekly action alerts from Justice for All Canada
Jewish Voice for Peace Power Half Hour | Weekdays @ 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern [daily]
- This is run by US organization JVP every weekday. The updates can be US-focused but there is also news from Palestinians on the ground that you don’t immediately hear elsewhere, and the opportunity to be together in solidarity and take action like calling / emailing MPs. [Info and text via Info via Canada 4 Palestine]
- Register here
Rabbis for Ceasefire Shloshim | Mondays, 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern [weekly]
- “In the face of loss, Jewish tradition recognizes our profound need to mourn. When a loved one dies, a thirty-day period known as shloshim (lit. thirty) begins, where grief is our primary task. Beginning on Monday, November 6th and continuing until we observe shloshim for every life lost, we will gather to grieve and learn the Torah of Ceasefire in their memory.” [Info and text via Info via Canada 4 Palestine]
- Register here
Centering Palestine | Tuesdays, 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern [weekly]
- An action hour run by COVID cautious organizers for whom in-person organizing is not accessible during the pandemic. Resources for actions are shared during the session, and cover the US, Canada and the UK. [Info and text via Info via Canada 4 Palestine]
Student Walkouts & School Strikes
Contacting Elected Officials
🇨🇦Fax Your MPs for an Immediate Ceasefire
🇨🇦Send a Letter to Your MP/Federal Politicians By Mail
🇨🇦Tell Trudeau: Reverse your shameful UN vote, and condemn Israel’s settlements!
🇨🇦Why Are Canadians Still Stuck in Gaza? Email Campaign
- Email Justin Trudeau, Melanie Joly, Pam Damoff, and your MP
- Send an email using this script or write your own
🇨🇦#ItsAGenocide Email Campaign
- Tell our leaders that the blood of Israel's genocide against Palestinians is on their hands!
- Email now (email tool)
🇨🇦 Liberal and Conservative MPs Visiting Israel
Send these MPs a message and tell them that they do not speak for us. Write your own email or send an email using Justice for All’s email tool and template.
- Anthony Housefather, Liberal MP (Mount Royal, QC)
- Marco Mendicino, Liberal MP (Eglinton-Lawrence, ON)
- Melissa Lantsman, Conservative MP (Thornhill, ON)
- Marty Morantz, Conservative MP ( Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, MB)
- Michelle Rempel Garner, Conservative MP (Calgary Nose Hill, AB)
🇨🇦 Call and email your reps EVERY DAY!
- This resource provides a daily summary of Canada's (in)action on the crisis, contact details for federal reps (and notes on which mailboxes are full), plus a range of phone scripts and email templates - including a new one each day for those of us who don't relent!
🇨🇦 DM Your MPs and Flood Their Instagram Comments!
- Take a few minutes from your day to flood our MPs comments and DMs, demanding that they listen to us. Send as many DMs as possible and comment on as many posts as possible, whether or not they are your MP!
- This doc is being updated with the IG accounts of MPs who have not yet called for a ceasefire.
🇨🇦 Send a letter to your city leaders
- More than 50 municipalities in Canada have called for a ceasefire. Use the email tool to contact your municipal leaders and demand a ceasefire now.
🇨🇦 Stop Nakba 2.0! Tell Trudeau: Press Israel to stop the bloodshed!
- Send an email to Prime Minister Trudeau, your local MP, and the leaders of the NDP, Conservatives and Greens
- Email now
🇨🇦 Flood Jagmeet Singh’s phone lines
- A ceasefire is bare minimum. Call Singh’s office to demand an end to the siege, an end to the genocide, and an end to Canada’s arm sales to Israel.
- Call now ↓
- Burnaby Office (for constituents): 604-291-8863
- Ottawa Office: 613-996-5597
Call your MP and Demand a Ceasefire Using CJPME’s Phone Tool
- Call your MP 🇨🇦 or Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly (for folks outside Canada)
- Phone tool + phone script
- Call now
🇨🇦 Canada Abstains from UN Vote for Ceasefire. Email Bob Rae’s Office! 🇨🇦
- On October 28, 2023, Canada’s UN Representative, Bob Rae, abstained from voting at the UN General Assembly in a resolution that would call for a ceasefire. The resolution passed with 120 votes in favour. Tell Bob Rae that Canada has failed humanity!
- Email canada.un@international.gc.ca
🇨🇦 Gaza on the Brink: Email Trudeau and Joly and Demand a Ceasefire!
🇨🇦 URGENT: Act now to demand Canada stop arming Israel and push for an immediate ceasefire
- Send an urgent message to your Member of Parliament, the Prime Minister, and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Defense. Email tool + template.
- Email now
🇨🇦 Canada: Urgent Action Needed to Secure an Immediate Ceasefire & Humanitarian Corridor in Gaza
- Send an email to your MP. Email tool + template.
- Email now
Holding Media & Institutions Accountable
🇨🇦Call on Canada to sanction Israeli settlers for violence against Palestinians
- Call on Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly to implement sanctions against Israeli settlers responsible for violence against Palestinians, illegal seizure of their lands and property and displacement.
- Email now
🇨🇦Tell Canada Pension Plan to drop $10+B investments complicit with Israeli war crimes
🇨🇦 Support Principal Ward of PDSB and His Right to Speak on Genocide!
🇨🇦Stand up against biased reporting and discriminatory practices at CTV!
- Demand accountability, urging an immediate end to discriminatory practices and a commitment to unbiased reporting.
- Email now
🇨🇦Hold your local paper accountable: Email tool by Justice for All
- Write to your city's newspapers (or any newspapers within a 75-kilometre range near you). Urge them for fair coverage and to highlight the gravity of the crisis facing Palestinians.
- Email now
🇨🇦 Protect academic freedom and the ability for doctors to critique foreign governments! uOttawa Medical Resident Dr. Yipeng Ge Suspended for Palestine Posts
🇨🇦 Canadian officials served with intention to prosecute for aiding and abetting Israel’s war crimes
🇨🇦 Censure Québec Doctor for Genocial Comments on Gaza
- “Earlier this month, Quebec cardiologist Dr. Éric Sabbah made a genocidal post on Facebook stating, “Whatever the images from Gaza, everything has to be razed to the ground…” adding, “It's impossible to tell the good guys from the bad...” The Journal de Montréal covered the story stating that complaints had been raised with Quebec’s Medical College and Quebec Health Board”
- Send an email to the appropriate Quebec health officials, as well as Dr. Sabbah’s immediate management to call for Dr. Sabbah’s professional censure
🇨🇦 WRDSB’s Complicity in Palestinian Genocide
- Call on students, parents, and community members to send an email to the WRDSB to urge a change in their course of action and complicity in the Palestinian genocide
- Scan the QR code in the Instagram post to open an email template in your inbox
🇨🇦 Writers Across Canada Demand Charges Against Giller Protesters be Dropped
- On Monday November 13, the ceremony for the annual Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s largest literary award, was interrupted by individuals that took to the stage to protest Scotiabank’s role in funding genocide.
- The Giller Prize is sponsored by Scotiabank which has a $500 million dollar stake in Elbit Systems, an arms manufacturer that supplies the Israeli military’s genocide against the Palestinian people.
- Writers across Canada have since published an open letter expressing support for this direct action and calling for all charges to be dropped!
- Sign the open letter
Write a Letter to the Editor: Jewish Voice for Peace
🇨🇦 Write a Letter to the Editor: Justice for All Canada
- Template for writing a letter to the editor.
🇨🇦 Tell the Toronto District School Board: Stop Anti-Palestinian Racism!
- Send an email to the TDSB senior team, HR Dept, and Trustees about their anti-Palestinian racism
- Email now (automatically opens in your email client)
🇨🇦 Email York University Admin & Denounce Their Threats to Student Unions Supporting Palestine!
🇨🇦 Defend free speech. Stop the attack on Palestine solidarity
- Write to labour leaders in Canada and Quebec to demand they protect workers and defend their free speech
- Email tool + template
- Email in English | Email in French
🇨🇦 Global News - Public Apology and Reinstatement of Palestinian Zahraa Alakhraas
- Zahraa Alakhraas, Palestinian Canadian Journalist was fired from her position at Global News, for posting about the genocide in Palestine on her personal social media page.
- Email now (Link to email template and contact info)
🇨🇦 Art Toronto Sponsor AXA Assists Israeli Apartheid Occupation & Genocide
- Let Art Toronto know you disapprove of them assisting and benefiting from the massacre, dispossession, and forced displacement of Palestinians through their partnership with the AXA Group.
- Demand that AXA divest from Israeli banks that finance Israel’s illegal settlements and apartheid regime.
Artforum Editor-in-Chief David Velasco Fired After Gaza Ceasefire Letter
- The editor who published the letter in Artforum was fired after the wealthy art patron Martin Eisenberg’s behind-the-scenes push
- Please submit contact info/organizing efforts using the Submit an Action form!
🇨🇦Ongoing - Media Responders for CJPME's Media Accountability Project (MAP)
- Respond to media alerts and email journalists/editors about their problematic Canadian media coverage.
- Sign up
Teach-Ins, Webinars, Discussions & Workshops
Petitions, Campaigns & Solidarity Statements
🇨🇦Ontario Teachers: Demand your Pension Plan divest from Israeli war crimes now
- We are a group of Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) beneficiaries deeply disturbed that our pensions are being invested in weapons manufacturers who directly contribute to and profit from Israel’s attacks on Palestinians in Gaza.
- Email now
🇨🇦Stop the Genocide in Palestine Email Campaign
🇨🇦 #311 Campaign: Daily Actions for Palestine
- To encourage us all to do our part, participate in the daily #311 campaign, where we're inviting you to:
- Send 3 emails to Politicians
- Make 1 phone call to a Politician
- Share, like or comment 1 post on social media.
Freedom For Palestinian Healthcare Workers
- We call for the immediate release of 38 healthcare workers kidnapped by the IOF while working at hospitals throughout Palestine
- Sign here
🇨🇦 Petition: Urgent Statement Against the Israeli Destruction of the Health System in Gaza
- Organized by Health Workers Alliance for Palestine (HWAP)
- For anyone working or studying within the field of health and healthcare workers across Canada
- Sign here
🇨🇦 Support Calgary protest organizer arrested on false charges
- Send an email to the Alberta Justice Minister, Calgary city leaders, and police community liaison reps using CJPME’s email tool
- Demand that Alberta immediately drop all charges against Palestine protest organizer Wesam Khaled!
- Email now
Petition: Call for York University to denounce violation of international law against Palestinians
Demand Venice Biennale to Include Palestinian Artists Collateral Event in Biennale Arte 24
🇨🇦Petition: Prioritize Peace. Stop Selling Arms to Israel [NDP]
Loving Palestine in Public: Statement and pledge from those who have been tourists in Palestine
Artists Against Apartheid: Solidarity Statement
Love Letters to Palestine
- Write a love note to Palestinians, tell them how much they've changed your life
Film Screenings, Art Builds, Exhibitions, Book Clubs, etc.
Call for submissions: zine 4 palestine [NEW]
- Accepting all types of writing and visual art
- Contributors will receive a free copy
- DM @thatlittlebeast on Instagram for more details
- Submission deadline: January 31, 2024 | Submit by email at catithom7@gmail.com)
Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS)
Join a BDS Campaign
Google Chrome Extension: Boycott brands supporting Israeli apartheid
- PalestinePact automatically scans products on all major websites and blurs them if they are linked to the BDS list.
- Download extension
Canadian BDS Coalition: Apartheid-Free Businesses and Organizations
- List of apartheid-free businesses and organizations
- Nominate an Apartheid-Free Business or Organization
Canadian BDS Coalition: Boycott/Shame List
- List of companies that support apartheid
- Submit a company that supports apartheid to the boycott list
Incident Reporting & Support
🇨🇦Palestine Legal Referral Services (PLRS)
- Supporting free expression at work
- A national legal referral service of 50+ lawyers across Canada connecting individuals expressing support for Palestine and Palestinians with experienced legal counsel.
- An initiative by members of the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers, Labour 4 Palestine and the Legal Centre for Palestine.
- Contact PLRS | Know Your Rights
🇨🇦Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Arab & Islamophobia Incidents at York University
- Submit incidents of Anti-Palestinian/Anti-Arab or Islamophobic at York University. Collected by the student group Palestine Solidarity Collective at York
- Report
🇨🇦Stand Against Hate: Report an incident of Anti-Palestinian/Anti-Arab or Islamophobic Hate in Canada
🇨🇦Report an Incident at Queen’s University
- If you have seen (or experienced) incidents of anti-Palestinian hate, anti-Muslim hate, racism, or islamophobia at Queen’s, please consider anonymously reporting.
- Our goal is to enhance the support systems available for all. Organized by Queen's Law Palestinian Advocacy.
- Report
NISA Helpline
- Confidential, Anonymous & Free 12-hr helpline for Muslim women across North America that offers mental health support and peer counselling.
- Helpline: 1-888-315-6472
- Book a counselling session for free
Moving Funds & Mutual Aid
Posters for Palestine Fundraiser
- Jumbo colouring poster (digital download)
- $10 | 100% of proceeds will be donated to the PCRF
🇨🇦 Toronto Community Defence Fund for Palestinian Activists
Buy a Keffiyeh from the Last and Only Factory in Palestine
eSims for Gaza
- November 15 Update: Nomad, Airalo (Global and Menalink), and Mogo eSims needed before Thursday, November 16
- Help ensure no one is silenced again! This grassroots group connected by @mirna_elhelbawi is getting eSim cards out to ANYONE in need in Gaza.
- If you or your friends/family/loved ones are in Gaza and need internet, email gazaesims@gmail.com and they’ll provide an e-sim
- Calls to action ↓
- Purchase an e-sim from HolaFly, Simly, or Numero
- Send confirmation email with QR Code to gazaesims@gmail.com
- The QR code will be delivered to someone in Gaza as soon as possible
Organizing & Volunteering
Are you interested in contributing more to the Free Palestine movement? Actions don’t have to be big to be effective. Here are some ideas to get you started ↓
- Create an action pod - a group of likeminded people who are motivated to organize. You only need two people to get started;
- Put up posters or stickers in your community;
- Translate resources about Palestine into other languages and share online;
- Coordinate a banner drop in a high-traffic area (this action only requires a couple people);
- Publicly ask your MP or elected officials why they haven’t called for a ceasefire. This action can be done at a public event. Prepare a list of questions in advance;
- Join an existing organizing group or coalition;
- Access SURJ Toronto’s Free Palestine: Direct Action Toolkit to learn more about organizing
🇨🇦 Printing + Postering for Palestine | Montreal
- places where you can pick up materials in Tiohtià:ke/ Mooniyang/ Montreal;
- info about postering and neighbourhood tracker;
- contact for printing volunteers in Tiohtià:ke/ Mooniyang/ Montreal;
- materials to print (posters, flyers, stickers, zine, etc).
Hasbara Tracker
- Volunteer to help build a database tracking and debunking fabrications by the Israeli state during its current genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
- We’re working on documenting and debunking claims made by the Israeli regime during its most recent – and unprecedented – genocidal campaign in Gaza. The Israeli settler-colony continues to spread disinformation to manufacture consent for ethnic cleansing and land theft, as it has since the Nakba. Our aim is to centralize this information.
- Volunteer application
🇨🇦 Resource Movement: Toolkit for Organizing MP Office Sit-Ins for Palestine
Transformative Justice Help Desk (for Organizers)
- Interrupting Criminalization offers a Help Desk consultation service for our partners working on projects and community-wide interventions to transform harm.
- If you are a transformative justice organizer or grassroots group doing Palestine solidarity work, book a free appointment to discuss security, safety, and mutual aid
🇨🇦 Join Palestine Solidarity Sudbury!
- Palestine Solidarity Sudbury is building a network in the Greater Sudbury, ON community to support upcoming and future actions.
- Sign up here
Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP)
- Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP) is a network of self-defined librarians, archivists, and information workers in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
- Membership request form
🇨🇦Join the Palestinian Youth Movement (Toronto Chapter)
🇨🇦Join Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Submit an action via Google Form
- No email required
- No personal information collected
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The formatting of this resource was inspired by the resource list created by @blossoming.resistance. Thank you to the organizers and activists who have created and shared these actions. Many of the words included in this document have been written by them.
If you are an organizer and you would like a copy of this document to use as a template, use the Submit an Action form and include an email or social media handle so we can send you a copy that can be edited.