Press release from the Coalition Against Israeli Aparthied for tomorrow's rally in Toronto:

Media Advisory
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
People respond with outrage to the latest massacre of Palestinians: Toronto
gets set for Demonstrations condemning recent Israeli attacks on Gaza
WHEN: 2 p.m., Sunday December 28, 2008
WHERE: Israeli Consulate, 180 Bloor Street West
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, December 28, 2008 (TORONTO) - Canadian
civil society organizations will be holding a demonstration to protest the
latest Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza today. The rally is
being organized by the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Palestine
House Cultural and Educational Centre, Canadian Arab Federation (CAF), Women
in Solidarity with Palestine (WISP), Not in our Name: Jewish Voices Opposing
Zionism (NION), and other concerned community organizations.
Over 225 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military in the last
twenty-four hours, making it the single worst massacre in Gaza since it was
illegally occupied in 1967. As many as 700 others have been injured and the
threat of further killings still hangs heavily over the skies of Palestine.
Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, stated yesterday that: 'this is only
the beginning' of what Israel calls 'Operation Cast Lead.'
The Israeli military is carrying out air strikes against a population that
lives in the most densely populated area in the world. Gaza has been under
an illegal and internationally condemned siege since April 2006. With little
reprieve, this two-year siege has restricted all flow of aid, medical
supplies, fuel and other necessities of life into the territory. A
humanitarian catastrophe has been unfolding in Gaza – this latest military
assault will only worsen the situation in an area where there is already
insufficient medicine, food, or fuel for people to survive on.
The Canadian government has become an ardent supporter of Israel's policy of
aggression and siege aimed at Gaza and has increasingly supported Israel's
on-going regime of apartheid. Stephen Harper's government was the first to
implement the siege on Gaza, which was most recently described by UN Special
Rapporteur Richard Falk as including "wide-ranging violations of the
fundamental human right to life."
As such, several sectors within Canadian society are renewing their call and
intensifying their efforts for a comprehensive campaign of boycott,
divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel and its apartheid practices.
This international campaign was recently endorse by United Nations General
Assembly President H.E. Father Miguel D'Escoto Brockman: "More than twenty
years ago we in the United Nations took the lead from civil society when we
agreed that sanctions were required to provide a nonviolent means of
pressuring South Africa to end its violations. Today, perhaps we in the
United Nations should consider following the lead of a new generation of
civil society, who are calling for a similar non-violent campaign of
boycott, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to end its violations."