View this in pdf format Montreal, August 13, 2025 — The Anti-Racism Program of the CJPME Foundation (ARPCF) welcomes the recent resolution passed by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) at their current Annual General Meeting, which calls for the creation of a pedagogical resource to support Palestinian students. Originally introduced by the Elementary Teachers of Toronto local, the resolution—passed by 71.32% of voting delegates—commits ETFO to developing and distributing materials that help educators affirm Palestinian identity, address anti-Palestinian racism, and teach Palestinian history. The ARPCF applauds this crucial step toward equity and inclusion in Ontario classrooms and echoes the resolution’s rationale: educators need age-appropriate tools to foster safe, affirming spaces for Palestinian students and to deepen their understanding of the structural nature of anti-Palestinian racism. Continue reading

View this in pdf format  Montreal, August 06, 2025 — The Anti-Racism Program of the CJPME Foundation (ARPCF) is amplifying the urgent findings of York University’s Documenting the ‘Palestine Exception’ report, which exposed a pervasive, systemic pattern of suppression of pro-Palestinian speech across Canada following October 7, 2023. As concluded by report authors from the Islamophobia Research Hub, this suppression has created a dangerous "Palestine exception" to democratic rights where advocacy for Palestinian rights is stigmatized as illegitimate or terroristic. In this way, Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism have converged to silence and vilify Muslim, Palestinian, Arab, and allied communities through incidents of censorship, doxing, bullying, disciplinary actions against students and educators, and biased media silencing. These patterns reveal a climate of repression rooted in institutional biases and power imbalances.   Continue reading

View this in pdf format  Montreal, July 15, 2025 — The Anti-Racism Program of the CJPME Foundation (ARPCF) welcomes the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) decision to reverse its censorship of a yearbook photo showing two students wearing keffiyehs at Ursula Franklin Academy. This change, which was confirmed in an email from the TDSB to the ARPCF, follows a formal letter sent by the ARPCF condemning the concealment of the image and warning that it constituted a clear act of anti-Palestinian racism. The TDSB’s acknowledgement—that keffiyeh-wearing students have the right to express their identities—marks a small but important step toward addressing the systemic erasure of Palestinian identity in Canadian schools. Continue reading

View this in pdf format  The anti-racism program of the CJPME Foundation (APRCF) has launched a national survey to document the legal and police repression faced by individuals involved in Palestine solidarity activism across Canada. Continue reading

View this in pdf format  Montreal, July 2, 2025 — The Anti-Racism Program of the CJPME Foundation (ARPCF) condemns York Region’s dismissal of paramedic Katherine Grzejszczak over a social media comment criticizing Israel’s violence in Palestine. The ARPCF argues that this punitive measure is a clear example of anti-Palestinian racism, as Grzejszczak’s expression of solidarity with Palestinian victims of Israeli violence—rooted in CUPE Ontario’s long-standing anti-war stance—was met not with dialogue, but with professional retaliation. The ARPCF joins legal experts, free speech advocates, and labour organizations in demanding her immediate reinstatement. Continue reading

The ARPCF has sent a letter to Audley Salmon, Associate Director of Learning Transformation & Equity at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), condemning the decision to conceal a yearbook photo of two students wearing keffiyehs at Ursula Franklin Academy. The letter argues that treating a culturally significant garment as “political” constitutes anti-Palestinian racism, perpetuates the erasure of Palestinian identity, and directly contradicts the Board’s own commitments to combat such discrimination. View this in pdf format Continue reading

The ARPCF has sent a letter to the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB), condemning the punitive response to a student’s pro-Palestinian graduation remarks. The letter denounces the silencing of Palestinian solidarity, the violation of student expression rights, and the broader pattern of anti-Palestinian erasure within educational institutions. View this in pdf format Continue reading

View this in pdf format  Montreal, June 17, 2025 — The Anti-Racism Program of the CJPME Foundation (ARPCF) condemns the racist act of vandalism targeting the Canadian Institute of Islamic Civilization (CIIC) mosque in downtown Montreal on June 10, 2025. The mosque was defaced with the words “F--- Gaza” in blue spray paint—an obscene and disturbing expression of both anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia, especially given the context of Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians in Gaza. This attack has deeply shaken Montreal’s Muslim and Palestinian communities, and it reflects a broader climate in which expressions of Palestinian identity, solidarity, or Muslim religious life are increasingly met with hate and hostility.     Continue reading

View this in pdf format Montreal, May 20, 2025 — The rise of municipal "bubble zone" laws across Canada is having a disproportionate and negative impact on pro-Palestinian protests and free expression, according to a new report issued by the Anti-Racism Program of the CJPME Foundation (ARPCF). Titled “Bubble Zone Laws: Protecting Communities or Cracking Down on Pro-Palestine Dissent?” The report reveals how vague and expansive bylaws in cities like Vaughan and Brampton, and under consideration in Toronto and Ottawa, threaten to create sweeping protest-free zones under the pretext of protecting community safety—zones that are being used to silence political dissent, especially in response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Continue reading

The ARPCF has sent a letter to Audley Salmon, Associate Director of Learning Transformation and Equity, calling for the retraction of a harmful narrative that portrays the British occupation of Palestine as a form of liberation. The letter denounces the erasure of Palestinian history, and the glorification of violent colonialism as a benevolent event. View this in pdf format Continue reading