Throughout the Days of Awe this year, reflecting and making any sort of clear meaning of this moment has felt an almost impossible task. Honestly facing the overwhelming suffering that has been inflicted upon Palestinians this year is overwhelming, painful, and difficult to fully comprehend. And yet, it is our responsibility to hold vigil, to be awake to our world. This is the work of Yom Kippur, and this is the work of solidarity.  We...

Today, we are in mourning. We have been in mourning every day for the past year, as each day has brought news of incalculable loss and suffering. Israel’s occupation and escalation of violence in Gaza has been ongoing for years, but this past year has seen an unprecedented wave of destruction, cruelty and killing. Today we mark the first yahrtzeit, the one-year anniversary, of this gruesome genocide by asking our community to work for justice....

The Jewish high holidays are a period to collectively repent for our wrongdoings over the last year, and imagine how we will enact our ethical values in the year to come. It is traditional in the time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, known as the “Days of Awe,” to reflect on the past year, repent, and seek forgiveness. The traditional liturgy focuses on confessing our transgressions during the Days of Awe. Even if they...

“In the immediate aftermath of that day it became taboo to mention anything that had happened before. History had started, it seemed, on October 7th.” Jewish Voice for Labour (UK) Part of the narrative of Israel supporters is that “it all began” on October 7, 2023, when Hamas and other Gaza militants staged a brutal incursion into Israel, involving the deaths and captive-taking of hundreds of Israelis and other non-Palestinians. However, Israel has been brutalizing...

I don’t know about you, but after almost a year of Israeli genocide in Gaza, I’m utterly exhausted and heartbroken. The daily images of Palestinians being murdered, the endless attempts at silencing and defaming our movement, our government’s despicable complicity.  We can’t let this go on.

JNF Canada’s charity status has been officially revoked. On August 10th the revocation notice for JNF Canada was published in the Canada Gazette, the official newspaper of the Canadian Government. This act finalizes the historic decision, and at this moment Canadian tax money will no longer subsidize the JNF’s illegal support of Israeli apartheid.  In the wake of this important victory, we think about all of the Palestinians, IJV members, and our allies that worked...