(Photo: Raghd Hamzeh, 2018) On Yom Kippur, Jews traditionally confess our sins in public. We confess in the plural, and we do so not only for our own sins, but for those of the community we live in and for those of the Jewish people as whole – for even...

On Wednesday, July 21 2021, the federal Ministry of Diversity, Inclusion and Youth hosted an emergency online “summit” on antisemitism with a carefully-selected audience in attendance. The government agreed to the summit at the behest of Jewish establishment organizations and Irwin Cotler, former Minister of Justice and current Special Envoy...

IJV is thrilled to partner with several other allies to launch Vote Palestine: a campaign and online platform to put human rights in Palestine-Israel on the agenda for the Canadian federal election. Over the course of the next few weeks, and up until the election on September 20th, we will be highlighting...

The Canadian government announced that it will be holding an emergency summit on antisemitism this summer. Antisemitism must be fought wherever and whenever it occurs. At the same time, we've seen a concerted effort in the last months by pro-Israel lobby groups in Canada to equate antisemitism with the massive...

IJV-London invites you to a webinar with Suzanne Berliner Weiss Sunday, June 27, 3pm-4pm EDT Suzanne Berliner Weiss is the author of Holocaust to Resistance: my journey. In the memoir, she describes her experiences as an orphan In France and New York during and after World War 2; as an...

Thursday, June 10, 2021 4pm PT / 7pm ET In the last month Israel’s grave human rights abuses have received unprecedented recognition and public condemnation in Canada. Across the country we have seen mass protests and demonstrations in many cities, statements by sitting MPs and senators, and the multiplication of...