Advocating for Palestine in Canada

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Advocating for Palestine in Canada examines the complexities and challenges of supporting Palestine within the Canadian context. It explores the diverse coalition of activists—from students and labour unions to faith groups and academics—who drive the movement. The book highlights how Palestine solidarity activism intersects with broader struggles against racism, imperialism, and colonialism, while confronting political opposition, media suppression, and legal intimidation. Drawing on first-hand accounts, it offers an insightful perspective on the movement's setbacks and successes and reflects on its significance for Canadian identity and politics.
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This book is suited to readers interested in politics, human rights, activism, and Canadian current affairs, especially those keen on understanding the dynamics of international solidarity movements.

This collection brings together activists and engaged scholars to explore the challenges of Palestinian solidarity activism in Canada.

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Why is it so difficult to advocate for Palestine in Canada and what can we learn from the movement's successes?

This account of Palestine solidarity activism in Canada grapples with these questions through a wide-ranging exploration of the movement's different actors, approaches and fields of engagement, along with its connections to different national and transnational struggles against racism, imperialism and colonialism.

Led by a coalition of students, labour unions, church groups, left wing activists, progressive presses, human rights organizations, academic associations and Palestinian and Jewish community groups, Palestine solidarity activism is on the rise in Canada and Canadians are more aware of the issues than ever before. Palestine solidarity activists are also under siege as never before.

The movement advocating for Palestinian rights is forced to contend with relentless political condemnation, media blackouts, administrative roadblocks, coordinated smear campaigns, individual threats, legal intimidation and institutional silencing.

Through this book and the experiences of the contributing authors in it, many seasoned veterans of the movement, Advocating for Palestine in Canada offers an indispensable and often first-hand view into the complex social and historical forces at work in one of our era's most urgent debates, and one which could determine the course of what it means to be Canadian going forward.

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Jim Miles of The Palestine Chronicle praises the book as a valuable and positive examination of Palestinian solidarity in Canada, underscoring its importance and insight.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781773634760

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 July 2022

Country: Canada

Imprint: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Contributors:

Edited by Emily Regan Wills
Edited by Jeremy Wildeman
Edited by Michael Bueckert
Edited by Nadia Abu-Zahra
Foreword by Aaron Mate
Foreword by Libby Davies

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 15.0mm

Height: 23.0mm

Weight: 340g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Emily Regan Wills (Edited by)
Emily Regan Wills is an associate professor of comparative politics at the University of Ottawa. She is the co-director of the Community Mobilization in Crisis project, which develops and implements innovative multilingual digital pedagogical tools for teaching community mobilization skills in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Jeremy Wildeman (Edited by)
Jeremy Wildeman is a Fellow at the Human Rights Resource and Education Centre (HRREC), University of Ottawa. He is a scholar of international relations, Middle East politics, Canadian foreign policy, human security and development aid.

Michael Bueckert (Edited by)
Michael Bueckert is Vice President at Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), a national advocacy organization based in Montreal. He has a PhD in Sociology with a specialization in Political Economy from Carleton University; his dissertation explored the opposition to boycott movements.

Nadia Abu-Zahra (Edited by)
Nadia Abu-Zahra is an Associate Professor and Joint Chair in Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, and a member of the University of Ottawa's Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services, and Centre for International Policy Studies.