Every Passover, we tell the story of liberation from Mitzrayim, the “narrow place” — a place of confinement, enslavement, and oppression. This year, we confront a brutal truth: Zionism is Mitzrayim. It is domination, occupation, checkpoints, surveillance. It is empire, apartheid, genocide. 1.5 Years of Genocide While we gather for Passover, we cannot look away from Gaza. Over the past year and a half, over 51,000 Palestinians have been killed. No aid has entered Gaza...

Every year, Jews around the world gather at Passover to retell the story of our liberation, to celebrate freedom and the resilience of our ancestors. This year, we cannot hear the story of the Israelites’ exodus without thinking of Palestinians enduring Israeli genocide today. The struggle for freedom continues today in Palestine. We cannot look away from the bombing and rampant destruction of Gaza, or from the frightening rise in military and settler violence across...

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Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) is proud to announce that we will be hosting an Anti-Zionist Refusenik Speaking Tour! Starting March 4th, Israeli conscientious objectors Tal Mitnick and Einat Gerlitz will be traveling across the country, speaking about their experiences resisting genocide and why they refused to serve in the Israeli military. Mitnick and Gerlitz will be hosted by IJV chapters across Canada to talk about war resisters in the movement for a free Palestine, nonviolent resistance to Zionist fascism...

Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we pause to honour the six million Jews and millions more victims—including Romani, queer and trans people, disabled people, and political dissenters—murdered by the Nazi regime. By remembering their stories, we honour their legacy and reaffirm our dedication to the fight for justice. 

A deal for a temporary halt to Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Gaza has been announced. IJV welcomes this news with hope, grief, and worry for the days to come. As we watch celebrations of the ceasefire in Gaza, we are grateful for the relief this will bring to Palestinians who have been suffering under Israel’s 15 month-long campaign of genocidal violence.