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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ5030910 ↗
Source-derived summary

Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is a Canadian pro-Palestine advocacy organization established in 2002.

In November 2011, it criticised the Canadian government for not condemning the Israeli government's plan to expand a number of its settlements, which are considered illegal under international law as interpreted by the International Court of Justice.

It adopted its current name in 2004.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East” is organization. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Canadians, Justice and Peace, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2011, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Canadians, Justice and Peace is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “organization” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5030910. Authority coordinates are 45.548, -73.662. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2011 and 2004.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East primary sources, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East archive and Canadians research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.