Evidence

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Evidence and Findings Regarding Israel’s Practices (non-exhaustive)

Genocide

International Court of Justice, Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) - Provisional measures: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192/provisional-measures (document type: provisional measures orders)

The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, Legal analysis of the conduct of Israel in Gaza pursuant to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, September 2025: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-crp-3.pdf (document type: conference room paper)

The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, “More than a human can bear:” Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023, March 2025: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session58/a-hrc-58-crp-6.pdf (document type: conference room paper)

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, From economy of occupation to economy of genocide, July 2025: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupation-economy-genocide-report-special-rapporteur (document type: report)

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Genocide as colonial erasure, October 2024: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/a79384-report-special-rapporteur-situation-human-rights-palestinian (document type: report)

The Gaza Tribunal Jury of Conscience, Final Statement, October 2025: download here (document type: statement)

The Gaza Tribunal Steering Committee, The Gaza Tribunal Concludes: “The Genocide Continues,” October 2025: download here (document type: statement)

Amnesty International, ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, December 2024: https://amnesty.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Amnesty-International-Gaza-Genocide-Report-December-4-2024.pdf (document type: report)

Human Rights Watch, Extermination and Acts of Genocide: Israel Deliberately Depriving Palestinians in Gaza of Water, December 2024: https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/12/19/extermination-and-acts-genocide/israel-deliberately-depriving-palestinians-gaza (document type: report)

University Network for Human Rights, Genocide in Gaza: Analysis of International Law and its Application to Israel’s Military Actions since October 7, 2023, May 2024: https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/publications/genocide-in-gaza (document type: report)

International Association of Genocide Scholars, IAGS Resolution on the Situation in Gaza, August 2025: https://genocidescholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IAGS-Resolution-on-Gaza-FINAL.pdf (document type: resolution)

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, “Five Pillars of Zionist Genocidal Apparatus: A Palestinian Problematization of Genocide Studies,” Journal of Genocide Research, September 2025: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2025.2556589 (document type: academic article)

Mazin Qumsiyeh, “The extent of the ecocide that is accompanying the last two years of genocide in the Gaza Strip,” October 2025: download here (document type: witness brief and bibliography of sources)

Unlawful Occupation and Annexation

International Court of Justice, Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, July 2024: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/186 (document type: advisory opinion)

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 September 2024, A/RES/ES-10/24: https://docs.un.org/en/A/RES/ES-10/24 (document type: UN General Assembly Resolution)

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, September 2022: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/coiopt/2022-10-19/Report-COI-OPT-14Sept2022-EN.pdf (document type: report)

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, September 2025: https://docs.un.org/en/A/80/337 (document type: report)

Apartheid

Amnesty International, Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity, February 2022: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/5141/2022/en/ (document type: report)

Human Rights Watch, A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution, April 2021: https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution (document type: report)

University Network for Human Rights, Apartheid in Israel: An Analysis of Israel’s Laws and Policies and the Responsibilities of US Academic and Other Institutions, May 2025: https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/publications/apartheid-in-israel-gaza-west-bank-universities (document type: report)

The Legal Framework and Third State Obligations

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Gaza Genocide: a collective crime, October 2025: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/a80492-gaza-genocide-collective-crime-report-special-rapporteur-situation (document type: report)

Yonah Diamond and John Packer, “Reviving the Genocide Convention’s Preventive Purpose,” Genocide Studies and Prevention: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol18/iss2/6/ (document type: academic article)

Diakonia International Humanitarian Law Centre, ICJ Order on Provisional Measures in South Africa v. Israel: Legal Consequences for Third States, February 2024: https://apidiakoniase.cdn.triggerfish.cloud/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/South-Africa-v.-Israel-Provisional-Measures-and-Third-States.pdf (document type: legal analysis)

Actions of Canadian Entities

Arms Transfers

Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights, Arms Exports to Israel Challenge, March 2024: https://claihr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024.03.05-ISSUED-Notice-of-Application-for-Judicial-Review-_-Federal-Court.pdf (document type: notice of application for judicial review)

Palestine Youth Movement, World Beyond War, and Arms Embargo Now, Exposing Canadian Military Exports to Israel, July 2025: https://armsembargonow.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Exposing-Canadian-Military-Exports-to-Israel_07292025_compressed-.pdf (document type: report)

International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, Feminist Foreign Policy Fail? Assessing Canada’s Human Rights Obligations in Gaza: Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women on the Occasion of the Committee's Review of Canada's 10th Report, October 2024: https://ihrp.law.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/CEDAW%20Shadow%20Report%20-%20IHRP%20GHRC%20-%20updated%209.17.24%20v2.pdf (document type: shadow report)

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Concluding observations on the tenth periodic report of Canada, October 2024: https://docs.un.org/en/CEDAW/C/CAN/CO/10 (document type: periodic review concluding observations)

United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Canada, April 2025: https://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=93w6WgSLGzf%2F9j42xSVKTPLdQvjEpz81dSE4ZbclZMgLnQqDdglmoClypzDe0c1ew48SeCgg1ds7JocA0Kkynw%3D%3D (document type: periodic review concluding observations)

Immigration and Refugee Systems

Raffy Boudjikanian, “Palestinian students say visa delays have stranded them despite admission to Canadian schools,” CBC News, July 2025: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/university-students-gaza-visa-applications-1.7576935 (document type: media report)

Raffy Boudjikanian, “Ottawa seeking unprecedented level of personal details from Palestinian migrants, lawyers say,” CBC News, January 2024: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/palestinian-gaza-migrant-canada-1.7080991 (document type: media report)

Amnesty International, “Fix the TRV Program and Reunite Gazans Now!” July 2025: https://amnesty.ca/activism-guide/fix-trv-program-reunite-gazans-now/ (document type: campaign)

Charities

Just Peace Advocates, Tax Breaks for Genocide: How Canadian charities are funding Israeli universities, July 2025: https://www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/tax-breaks-for-genocide-how-canadian-charities-are-funding-israeli-universities/ (document type: report)

Just Peace Advocate, 2024 Donations: How Canadian charities funneled money to Israel’s occupation, apartheid, and genocide in 2024, September 2025: https://www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/2024-donations-how-canadian-charities-funneled-money-to-israels-occupation-apartheid-and-genocide-in-2024/ (document type: media investigation)

The Fifth Estate, “Funding the Occupation,” CBC News, October 2025: https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.6938245?feature=related-link (document type: media investigation)

Universities

Azeezah Kanji et al, Palestine at Canadian University: How Institutional Complicity in Colonial Genocide is Maintained, September 2025: www.institutionalcomplicity.ca (document type: expert task force investigation)

York University Race Equity Committee, Surveilled & Silenced: A Report on Palestine Solidarity at York University, September 2024: https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/d0c8efbf-728d-4d20-b25d-47dc068825c0 (document type: report)

The Palestine Exception Report (on Carleton University), July 2025: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/The_Palestine_Exception_Report_pdf/29480654 (document type: report)

Sparrows for Palestine Collective, Ties that bind: Recent timeline of UofT’s relationships with Israeli Institutions, regularly updated: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rf-mLxrs3P7XdvdZX9iH7PGG0kBkVE8A_HlwGtL5wJ8/edit?tab=t.0 (document type: compilation of sources)