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...

We mourn the deaths of six Israeli hostages found killed over the weekend just as we mourn the 47 Palestinians killed the same day by Israel, and the more than 40,000 people killed since October 7, 2023. These deaths could have been avoided. At least three of the Israelis killed were on a list to be released in July had Israel agreed to a deal which had been accepted by Hamas. But no. The Israeli...

This week marks nine months of Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people in Gaza. The latest official estimates indicate that over 38,000 Palestinians have been killed so far, though according to leading medical journal the Lancet, that number may be closer to five times that amount.  No words can describe the horrors Palestinians in Gaza have witnessed for the past 9 months. Nor can words do justice to the rage and sorrow we have...