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The International Solidarity Committee was set up in recognition of the global nature of the struggle for workers’ rights. With a global capitalist economy, challenging the power of a single government becomes more and more difficult. With that in mind, the International Solidarity Committee supports efforts to link CUPE members to other struggles throughout the world. It works to educate members on the situation faced by workers in other countries by bringing representatives of other unions to Ontario and acts as a forum to share information about the connections between our lives and the work of others abroad.

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A Brief History of CUPE Ontario Palestine Solidarity

In September 2025, the United Nations independent international commission of inquiry (COI) determined genocide is occurring in Gaza and is continuing to occur. There is growing consensus that Palestinians in Gaza have been experiencing genocide from October 2023 onwards, evidenced by the words of Israel’s leaders of their overt intent to commit genocide, and by the testimony of the very survivors and victims of Israel’s assault. (See more..)

In May 2006, CUPE Ontario members directed our Union to create an educational campaign about the occupation of Palestinian lands by the State of Israel. In October 2023, this call was reiterated at our National Union’s convention by the adoption of Emergency Resolution 804. This information sheet provides a brief history of the work our Union and others have done to educate our members on the ongoing occupation. It also provides steps Locals can take to educate their members. Below are links to resources that Locals can utilize in calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and supporting a just and lasting peace. (See more..)

Support Palestinian Human Rights: Vote for The Palestine Solidarity Resolution at the CUPE National Convention: CUPE activists are supporting a resolution calling for solidarity with Palestinian people and workers at 2021 CUPE National Convention (November 22 to 26, 2021).

The Palestine Solidarity Resolution answers the call of Palestinian unions and civil society organizations to use a campaign of non-violent Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) to hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law.

CUPE National Convention 2021 delegates, click here to read our 5 reasons why we support Resolution 70.

More of CUPE Ontario’s Solidarity Work

• CUPE Ontario Convention Capsule 2024
• Why International Solidarity

• Read the International Solidarity Committee’s Factsheet on Slavery & Forced Labour in Libya 
• Violent arrests of dozens of members of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran Bus Company (Vahed Sydicate) and student groups during a May Day rally
• Updates on May Day arrestees

Resources

1. CUPE Ontario Palestine Solidarity Factsheets
2. CUPE Ontario Resolution No. 50
3. CUPE National Emergency Resolution No. 804
4. CUPE British Columbia Report: The Wall Must Fall
5. Human Rights Watch Report: A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
6. Human Rights Watch Report: Extermination and Acts of Genocide
7. Amnesty International Report: Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians
8. B’Tselem Report: A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
9. B’Tselem Report: Our Genocide
10. Doctors Without Borders: Genocide in Gaza
11. Physicians for Human Rights – Israel: A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide
12. Independent International Commission of Inquiry report

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