Leading an anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian demonstration in Toronto on July 30, 2014, Issam Al Yamani, a Palestinian who is affiliated with the terrorist-designated Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), declared:
“As a Palestinian I will allow myself to say this, and I would like to call on the Palestinian leadership and ask them and call upon them to act as Palestinian leaders, the leaders of the Palestinian people, the people in Gaza and the West Bank are Palestinians.
“The leadership, the Palestinian leadership and the President of the Palestinian Authority [Mahmoud Abbas], should not be a mediator between Hamas and Israel, between Hamas and Egypt.
“He [Abbas] should be the leader of this struggle, and we call upon him to call for an immediate Palestinian third Intifada, popular [violent] resistance in the West Bank and in Gaza, in the refugee camps and in the Diaspora.
“That is the only way the Palestinian people will be united for our struggle. We don’t want an artificial unity. Mr. Abbas, if you are not up to the challenge give the keys to the United Nations, the keys of the Authority to the United Nations, and declare the whole of Palestine as an occupied territory.”
Yamani is the Executive Director of Palestine House in Mississauga and a member of Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid’s, Coordinating Committee, despite a deportation order that was issued in April, 2006, according to Estanislao Oziewicz, Globe and Mail, November 16, 2002
The following organizations endorsed this pro-Palestinian demonstration:
희망21 HOPE21 (Korean Progressive Network in Canada)
Anakbayan-Toronto
Arab Palestine Association
BAYAN-Canada
Canadian Iranian Coalition for Peace
Coalition For Tamil Rights (CTR)
Committee of Progressive Pakistani-Canadians
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) – Ontario
Communist Party of Canada
Congress of Progressive Filipino Canadians (CPFC)
Faculty for Palestine
Graduate Research Association of Students in Public Health (GRASP)
Greater Toronto Workers Assembly (GTWA)
Health for All
Independent Jewish Voices Toronto
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN)
MataDanZe
MIGRANTE-CANADA
NDP Socialist Caucus
No One is Illegal (NOII)
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
Ontario Public Interest Research Group – York
Palestine House
Philippine Solidarity Network – Toronto (PSNT)
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA)
Ryerson Students’ Union
Socialist Action / Ligue pour l’Action Socialiste
Socialist Project
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights – McMaster
Students Against Israeli Apartheid – York (SAIA-York)
Syrian Revolution Club at York University
The Organization for Afrikan Struggles and International Solidarity (OASIS)
Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
Toronto Forum on Cuba
Toronto Students for Justice in Palestine (UofT Scarborough)
Women in Solidarity with Palestine
York Federation of Students (YFS)
York University Graduate Students’ Association (YUGSA)
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