If you are experiencing backlash contact your steward, 1281 staff person and our co-lead stewards and find resources here.
Resources about current situation in Gaza that CUPE 1281 is following and have gathered for the membership.
- CUPE 1281 Statement on Gaza
- CUPE Ontario statement
- Palestinian Youth Movement
- An Urgent Call from Palestinian Trade Unions: End all Complicity, Stop Arming Israel
- Independent Jewish Voices
- Gaza Mutual Aid Collective
- Doctors without Borders statement
An incomplete list of places to send support:
- Middle East Children’s Alliance works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in Palestine and Syrian refugees through aid, empowerment and education.
- Palestine Children’s Relief Fund is a humanitarian organization in Palestine, delivering crucial and life-saving medical relief and humanitarian aid where it is needed most.
- Médecins Sans Frontières is working on the ground to provide medical care for civilians caught in the conflict
- The Palestinian Red Crescent Society is working directly on the ground to help the victims of this humanitarian crisis
- United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) has a Gaza Emergency Appeal to support their work on the ground, providing shelter and emergency health care
Take action
- Take action with the National Council of Canadian Muslims
- Take action with the campaigning community in Israel Zazim to establish a humanitarian corridor
- Read Amnesty International’s open letter to Prime Minister Trudeau on respecting human rights in Palestine and Israel.
Other resources
- All the Walls Will Fall: Palestine Liberation Reading List compiled October 2023
- Palestinian Youth Movement Reading List
- Handbook for academics: The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism & Canadian Universities/Colleges
- We Are Not Numbers
- Arming Apartheid: Canada’s Arms Exports to Israel
- UN: Situation in Occupied Palestine and Israel
- Jewish Voices for Peace Tell NYT: The root of violence is oppression
- United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestinians in the Near East
- A ceasefire is the only way to stop a genocide from unfolding in Gaza
- Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity