Over the next few days, IJV will be releasing a series of dispatches from Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists reflecting on life under the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world grapples with the outbreak, and as we organize mutual aid and solidarity in many cities, we must keep Palestine in our...
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Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) is a grassroots organization grounded in Jewish tradition that opposes all forms of racism and advocates for justice and peace for all in Israel-Palestine. Our strength comes from our members. IJV has active chapters in cities and on university campuses across the country.
Dispatch #3 From Palestine on COVID-19, Curfews and Mutual Aid
Over the next few days, IJV will be releasing a series of dispatches from Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists reflecting on life under the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world grapples with the outbreak, and as we organize mutual aid and solidarity in many cities, we must keep Palestine in both...
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Dispatch #2 from Palestine on COVID-19, Curfews and Mutual Aid
Over the next few days, IJV will be releasing a series of dispatches from Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists reflecting on life under the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world grapples with the outbreak, and as we organize mutual aid and solidarity in many cities, we must keep Palestine in our...
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Dispatches From Palestine on COVID-19, Curfews and Mutual Aid
Over the next few days, IJV will be releasing a series of dispatches from Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists reflecting on life under the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world grapples with the outbreak, and as we organize mutual aid and solidarity in many cities, we must keep Palestine in our...
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Coronavirus solidarity and health advice from IJV’s Jewish disaster nurse
[Artwork by N.O Bonzo] A crisis can bring out the best in each of us. During a crisis, we are focused, we reach out, we help each other, we do solidarity and we build community with strangers. We can use the opportunity to build progressive institutions and our movement. The...
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Dispatch #4 from Palestine on COVID-19, curfews & mutual aid comes from Khalil Abu Yahia, an English teacher in Gaza City.
In Khalil's words, "The situation is getting worse in Gaza. What we want to say to the world is ‘enough is enough’. If you don’t put the maximum pressure on Israel to lift the siege right now, Gaza will become a graveyard."
Apartheid is a virus. Freedom is the cure.
#COVID19 #mutualaid #Coronavirus #FreeGaza
Dispatch #4 From Palestine on COVID-19, Curfews and Mutual Aid
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Over the next few days, IJV will be releasing a series of dispatches from Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists reflecting on life under the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world grapples with the outbreak, and as we organize mutual aid and solidarity in many cities, we must keep Palestine in ouRather than doing the 'unthinkable' and including the non-Jewish-led Joint List in his coalition, Benny Gantz has just rubber stamped the continuation of Netanyahu's brutal reign.
"We will all pay the price for Gantz’s decision to whitewash Netanyahu’s corruption, endless rule, dismantling of the opposition, annexation, racism, occupation, siege, and war on the poor."
Gantz chooses Netanyahu's incitement over Arab-Jewish partnership - +972 Magazine
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Benny Gantz could have made history by forming a minority government with the support of the Palestinian parties. Instead he dismantled his own political camp and joined his rival.A great podcast episode from WNYC's On The Media:
"Last week, roughly 400 Israelis got an alert on their cell phone: 'You must immediately go into isolation [for 14 days] to protect your relatives and the public.' Data-tracking suggested that they had recently spent time near someone who had tested positive for Covid-19. The next day, hundreds of Israelis set up a convoy of cars to demonstrate outside the Knesset. Protestors said that the surveillance measures were just one of a series of undemocratic actions taken by Benjamin Netanyahu's government in a power grab that uses the coronavirus as a cover. So what happens when a country faces a series of crises on top of a pandemic?"
When Coronavirus Isn't The Only Crisis | On the Media | WNYC Studios
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Israel is grappling with the pandemic... and big questions about democracy.Great initiative from our friends at CJPME - Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East!
Call on Trudeau to:
🔸ADD aid for Gaza and other extremely vulnerable international communities, including refugees
🔸ADD aid for Canada’s migrant and undocumented workers
🔸ADD aid for those under immigration authority
🔸ADD aid for Canada's poor and marginalized.
🔸ADD demanding an end to Israel's blockade of Gaza, which makes Palestinians there exponentially more vulnerable in the face of the pandemic
Tell Trudeau: Don’t forget our most vulnerable, esp. Gaza and refugees
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Please tell Trudeau and your local MP “thank you” for what they’ve done so far, but please don’t forget Canada and the world’s most vulnerable, esp. Gaza and refugees.Dispatch #3 from Palestine on #Covid19, Curfews & Mutual Aid comes from Asmaa Tayeh in the Gaza Strip. Asmaa works with We Are Not Numbers, a citizen journalism project for Palestinian youth in Gaza.
In Asmaa's words, "People need to seize this opportunity to be better people. Quarantine is giving us more chances to sit with ourselves, to understand ourselves, and to try to figure out what we need to develop or change so that we can be better people."
Apartheid is a virus. Freedom is the cure.
#Coronavirus #FreeGaza
Dispatch #3 From Palestine on COVID-19, Curfews and Mutual Aid
www.ijvcanada.org
Over the next few days, IJV will be releasing a series of dispatches from Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists reflecting on life under the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world grapples with the outbreak, and as we organize mutual aid and solidarity in many cities, we must keep Palestine in bo