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SUMMARY:BDS: A Toolkit for Community Organizing
DESCRIPTION:Independent Jewish Voices’ BDS Committee invites you to join us for BDS: A Toolkit for Community Organizing! This workshop is part of the global Israeli Apartheid Week series of events. \n\n\n\n\nClick here to register\n\n\n\n\nBoycott\, Divestment\, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom\, justice\, and equality\, and a key organizing strategy against Israeli apartheid. How can each of us participate in upholding the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity? Join us for this informative and inspiring workshop to find out.Following an orientation to BDS\, we’ll move to breakout rooms organized around four sectors: labour\, faith groups\, campus organizing\, and political parties. Speakers in each room will share best practices and how-to information to assist participants in launching their own campaigns\, passing resolutions\, and supporting this vibrant global movement where they live and work. \n\n\n\nBreakout room speakers will include: \n\n\n\nLabour\n\n\n\n✩ Moe Alqasem a Palestinian community organizer\, trade unionist\, and writer based in Toronto. Originally from Nablus\, Moe is active in the BDS movement\, prisoner solidarity\, and student and labour activism. \n\n\n\n✩ Hassan Husseini is a longtime labour and solidarity activist\, and an organizer with Labour for Palestine. He is a national negotiator at Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and a member of Unifor Local 2025. \n\n\n\nFaith Groups\n\n\n\n✩ Byron Rempel-Burkholder is chair of the Mennonite Church Canada Palestine-Israel Network\, which comprises four volunteer working groups across the country devoted to implementing the denomination’s 2016 resolution on Palestine and Israel. \n\n\n\n✩ Rabbi David Mivasair served as the spiritual leader of three synagogues in Vancouver and in Pennsylvania over a period of close to 25 years. He lived in Israel for four years and has returned a number of times to support peace and justice work there. David is an active member of IJV and lives in Hamilton\, Ontario. \n\n\n\n✩ Debbie Hubbard is a member of the United Church of Canada. She has visited Palestine-Israel three times and served as an Ecumenical Accompanier with the World Council of Churches in East Jerusalem in 2014. She is a part of the leadership team for CJPME – Okanagan\, Amnesty Okanagan and the PalNet Pacific network. \n\n\n\n✩ Moderated by Harold Shuster\, a member of IJV-Winnipeg and the IJV BDS Committee. Harold had served for many years on our Steering Committee and is currently helping stir us along in his role on the IJV-Chapter Council. \n\n\n\nCampus\n\n\n\n✩ Erika Campbell is a member of IJV and current PhD candidate at McMaster University. She worked as a community organizer throughout her time at Queen’s University when completing her Master’s degree to campaign against the adoption of IHRA’s definition of anti-Semitism in Ontario. \n\n\n\n✩ Aidan Macdonald is a labour and community organizer living in Toronto. He is a member of Labour4Palestine\, which aims to support and strengthen Palestine solidarity in the labour movement in Canada\, and was an organizer with Students Against Israeli Apartheid while pursuing his Masters degree at Carleton University. \n\n\n\nPolitical Parties\n\n\n\n✩ Amy Kishek is a Palestinian-Canadian labour lawyer and activist. She resides in Ottawa on the unceded\, unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people. Amy helped organize the successful 2021 Palestine Resolution campaign at the National NDP campaign\, and continues to organize for Palestinian liberation. \n\n\n\n✩ The event will be moderated by Rachel Gurofsky\, a member of IJV who works as an English instructor in Muscat\, Oman. She helped to organize Students Against Israeli Apartheid’s pension fund divestment campaign at Carleton University in 2010.
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/bds-a-toolkit-for-community-organizing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220320T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220320T140000
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SUMMARY:Together Against Apartheid campaign launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Independent Jewish Voices Canada as we launch our brand-new national campaign\, Together Against Apartheid! Hear from exciting speakers\, and find out how you can take action to end Israeli apartheid. Sunday\, March 20th at 10am PT / 1pm ET. \n\n\n\n*Closed captioning will be available for this event \n\n\n\n*Il y aura une service de traduction simultantée vers le français disponible pour cet événement.Click here to register \n\n\n\n\nClick here to register\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer specializing in negotiations\, international law\, and international human rights law. Earlier in her career\, Buttu worked on the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations\, serving as the only female negotiator during her five-year tenure. Buttu currently lives in Haifa\, where she works as a political analyst with the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeah Gazan has been the NDP Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre since 2019. She is currently the NDP Critic for Children\, Families\, and Social Development\, as well as the Critic for Women and Gender Equality and Deputy Critic for Housing. Gazan is a member of Wood Mountain Lakota Nation\, located in Saskatchewan\, Treaty 4 territory. Prior to being elected to parliament\, Gazan was a prominent leader during Idle No More\, articulating the movement to the Winnipeg public. Gazan also co-founded the #WeCare campaign aimed at building public will to end violence against Indigenous women and girls. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDesmond Cole is an award-winning journalist\, radio host\, and activist in Toronto. His writing has appeared in the Toronto Star\, Toronto Life\, The Walrus\, NOW Magazine\, Ethnic Aisle\, Torontoist\, BuzzFeed\, and the Ottawa Citizen. He is the author of The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNeta Golan is an Israeli-Canadian co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). She lives in the occupied West Bank with her Palestinian husband and their three beautiful daughters- an illegal act under Israeli apartheid law.
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/together-against-apartheid-campaign-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220116T180000
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SUMMARY:Tu Bishvat Seder
DESCRIPTION:Click here to register\n\n\n\n\nTu Bishvat is the New Year of the Trees. Traditionally\, this holiday is associated with renewal\, environmental stewardship\, communal accountability\, and food resource redistribution. But the holiday was co-opted in the last century by Zionist propaganda to justify the ongoing colonization of Palestine\, including the demolition of Palestinian homes and olive groves. \n\n\n\nJoin Rabbi Lucia Pizarro for IJV’s Tu Bishvat Online Seder where we will read some texts\, make some space for creativity\, and partake in an adapted version of some of the rituals of the Tu Bishvat Seder. \n\n\n\nWhat To Bring\n\n\n\nUpon registering for this seder\, you will be sent a list of suggested (and alternative) beverages\, foods\, and supplies you may want to bring to partake in the seder. These are all optional and you can show up and partake in the seder however you wish! \n\n\n\nOpen to all\n\n\n\nWhile this event is open to anyone who is interested\, we strongly suggest that you join IJV as a member or supporter in order to help us cover the costs associated with the event\, and help us put on future events like this. \n\n\n\nAbout IJV’s Online Chavurah\n\n\n\nIJV’s Online Chavurah is a non-Zionist space where we can build connections with like-minded people. All viewpoints are valuable\, and we encourage participants to share their own unique thoughts and experiences. This is not a group meant to debate differences in opinion but to share and support each other’s learning. \n\n\n\nIJV’s Online Chavurah does not presuppose any theology nor any particular knowledge about anything other than one’s own life. It uses a group format to explore Jewish text\, liturgy and theology\, providing time for participants to discover new meaning in old writings.
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/tu-bishvat-seder/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211125T183000
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SUMMARY:Treaty Making and Upkeep: A workshop with Ange Loft
DESCRIPTION:Click here to register\n\n\n\n\nThis presentation and workshop reflects on treaty making and upkeep in what is now known as Toronto\, through the lens of three main agreements: the Dish with One Spoon; the Covenant Chain and 1764 Treaty of Niagara; and the ‘Toronto Purchase’ with the Mississaugas of the Credit.  \n\n\n\nNarratives of Nation-to-Nation gift giving\, kin building\, resource sharing\, and the role of oral memory are supported by excerpts from the 2017-18 “Talking Treaties Spectacle” and the 2019 film “By These Presents: ‘Purchasing’ Toronto”. Glimpses of the multi-year community engaged process reveal the capacity of arts-based learning to foster personalised and active approaches to treaty knowledge. \n\n\n\nNo experience of prior knowledge is needed to join this workshop. There will be time for your questions. Please get in touch if you have any access needs. \n\n\n\nFacilitator Bio:\n\n\n\nAnge Loft is an interdisciplinary performing artist and initiator from Kahnawake Kanienkehaka Territory\, working in Toronto. She is an ardent collaborator\, consultant\, facilitator and mentor working in storyweaving\, arts based research\, wearable sculpture and Haudenosaunee history. Ange is also a vocalist with the Juno and Polaris nominated band YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN. \n\n\n\n*Participation in this workshop is open to IJV members and non-members alike. If you aren’t yet a member or supporter\, we highly encourage you to become a member or make a donation to help cover our expenses: https://www.ijvcanada.org/join-ijv/
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/treaty-making-and-upkeep-a-workshop-with-ange-loft/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211104T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211104T213000
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SUMMARY:From IDF to IJV
DESCRIPTION:Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) presents an online event featuring the stories of Jewish activists and former soldiers who went from waging war to waging peace. \n\n\n\nJoin us to hear IJV members reflect on their time serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)\, and what moved them towards a position of support for Palestinian human rights and liberation. \n\n\n\n\nClick here to register\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYom Shamash was born in Israel. At the age of 6\, his family moved to Brazil. He returned to Israel in 1971 as a member of the Hashomer Hatzair group and settled in Kibbutz Zikim\, south of Ashkelon. He served in the IDF in the Nahal brigade and was in the Sinai in the Yom Kippur War. He currently lives in Vancouver\, where he is a member of IJV-Vancouver. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaphna Levit was born in Israel and was an enthusiastic Zionist who served in the army NAHAL corps on the then border with Egypt\, until the 1967 Six Day War.  She was then recruited to serve in the Military Spokesman Office (Intelligence Corps) as a Press Liaison officer to attend to and escort foreign journalists to sensitive locations.  This move was due to her fluency in several languages.  One of her jobs was to ensure that the foreign press did not violate the strict censorship rules and did not stray into prohibited danger zones.  She accompanied reporters to the Allenby Bridge across which Palestinians fled to Jordan when Israel “conquered” the whole of historical Palestine and expelled about 300\,000 Palestinians from their homes.  Watching the exodus\, the fear and the misery of this flight was what turned Daphna into the peace activist she became. She co-authored an earlier book on the Middle East impelled by the Gaza War of 2008-2009. Her most recent book\, Wrestling With Zionism was the culmination of many years as a human rights activist and draws on the diversity of dissent that commenced with the inception of Zionism in the 19th century. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRafi Silver was born in the US and immigrated to Israel in 1971. He did his mandatory service in the IDF from 1974-76 and was in the reserves until 1996. A former member of a kibbutz and a retired social worker\, Rafi immigrated to Canada in 2001 and lives in Montreal. He is an active member of IJV-Montreal\, and sits on the national steering committee of IJV Canada. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerated by Lia Tarachansky – Lia Tarachansky is an Israeli-Canadian journalist and filmmaker born in the former Soviet Union. She has made short\, experimental\, and feature films and worked as the Middle East correspondent from Israel/Palestine. Some of her films screened on TV\, won awards and toured globally; others died on her hard drives. She’s the Education Director of the Morris Winchevsky School in Toronto\, and spends her days filming\, designing lesson plans\, and reading barely-comprehensible books for her PhD in Media Studies.
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/from-idf-to-ijv/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211026T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211026T210000
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SUMMARY:Matzpen: Anti-Zionists in Israel (screening & discussion)
DESCRIPTION:In our third and final screening of Eran Torbiner’s works with Amir Locker-Biletzki\, IJV Canada invites you to view and discuss Matzpen: Anti-Zionists in Israel. This 2003 documentary offers a uniquely non-diasporic perspective of the Jewish Internationalist Left of the 1960’s. \n\n\n\nJoin us on October 26th from 7 – 9 pm ET! \n\n\n\n\nClick here to register\n\n\n\n\nIn contrast to Bunda’im and Madrid Before Hanita\, Jewish Internationalism in Matzpen was embedded in the context of Palestine/Israel. More so\, it was rooted in a strong sense of Israeli-Jewish identity\, a Hebrew identity detached from the diasporic Jewish people and Zionist Jewish nationalism. As true Socialists\, Matzpen members were involved in the movement against the war in Vietnam\, national liberation in Africa and Latin America\, as well as the European New Left of the late 1960’s.At the core of their internationalism stood the uncompromising struggle against the 1967 Occupation and their identification with the plight of the Palestinian people. At the same time\, the struggle of Matzpen resembles that of the Bundists who attached to the plight of the Yiddish Jewish people of Eastern Europe\, and Poland a distinct Jewish identity and to also the Brigadistas who went to fight Fascism as Jews fighting the worse enemy of their people\, Nazism.
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/matzpen-anti-zionists-in-israel-screening-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211019T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211019T210000
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SUMMARY:Madrid Before Hanita: Film screening and discussion
DESCRIPTION:In our continuing collaboration with Amir Locker-Biletzki\, IJV Canada invites you to the second instalment in the series of films directed by Eran Torbiner\, illustrating different facets of the Jewish internationalist movement. October 19th: Madrid Before Hanita: The Non-Jewish Jews\, 7 – 9 pm ET \n\n\n\n\nClick here to register\n\n\n\n\nThis 2006 documentary looks at the complex and rarely-heard story of 300 Jews from pre-Israel Palestine who departed to fight fascism and joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939.The film tells many stories of the Palestine volunteers and follows them into the aftermath of 1948\, when the veterans of the International Brigades were primarily marginalized in the newly founded state of Israel.Mostly members of the Communist Party and anti-Zionists\, they were not part of the Israeli narrative on the armed resistance to fascism. When in the 1980s\, they were finally accepted into the Israeli pantheon of heroism\, their internationalist solidarity with the anti-fascist struggle was sidelined for the sake of emphasizing Jewish national motifs instead.The film honours their heritage and brings to light one place where the legacy of the internationalist brigadistas was preserved\, the Communist left in Israel that commemorated the veterans of the Spanish Civil War for what they were\, anti-fascist internationalists. No Pasaran! הם לא יעברו
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/madrid-before-hanita-film-screening-and-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211012T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211012T210000
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SUMMARY:Bundaim: Film screening & discussion
DESCRIPTION:IJV Canada in collaboration with our scholar-in-residence Amir Locker-Biletzki invites you to a series of three films directed by Eran Torbiner that reflect three historical episodes of Jewish Socialist and anti-Zionists’ internationalist struggles. \n\n\n\nOctober 12: BundaimOctober 19: Madrid before HanitaOctober 26: Matzpen \n\n\n\nAll events take place from 7-9pm ET \n\n\n\nBundaim is the first screening\, taking place on October 12th. \n\n\n\n\nClick here to register\n\n\n\n\nThe film gives a moving portrayal of the history of The General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania\, Poland and Russia. The Bund was founded in 1897 in a small attic in Vilnius out of study circles of Jewish workers who gathered together to learn the writings of Marx\, and the film Bundaim follows this history to the last remaining branch of the Bund movement in Israel.The screening will be introduced by Amir placing the bund movement in its historical context and will be followed by a conversation with the audience.Register here: And dont miss the following screenings every Tuesday in October (registration links tba)!
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/bundaim-film-screening-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210823T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210823T200000
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SUMMARY:One book\, many communities: Minor Detail (follow up discussion)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we discuss the International Booker Prize Finalist Minor Detail by Adania Shibli! This novel tells the story of a Bedouin girl raped and killed by Israeli soldiers in 1949\, and the young woman in present-day Ramallah determined to learn more about what happened to her.It’s ok if you haven’t finished the novel but be prepared to discuss the story and it relates to the history and current realities of Palestine and Israel. This event is being held in collaboration with Librarians and Archivists with Palestine’s “One Book\, Many Communities” campaign. \n\n\n\n\nClick here to register
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/one-book-many-communities-minor-detail-follow-up-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210812T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210812T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T231930
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SUMMARY:One book\, many communities: Minor Detail (book discussion)
DESCRIPTION:Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) and Librarians and Archivists with Palestine are teaming up again this summer for the international reading campaign\, One Book\, Many Communities!This year’s featured book is “Minor Detail” by Palestinian author Adania Shibli. \n\n\n\n\nClick here to register\n\n\n\n\nConnect the riveting International Booker Prize Finalist Minor Detail with current events in Palestine! This is a collaboration between the international reading campaign “One Book\, Many Communities” by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine and IJV’s #StopJNFCanada campaign. Presenters will connect the themes in Minor Detail with the real-life Jewish National Fund and IJV’s campaign to remove the JNF’s charitable status in Canada.
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/one-book-many-communities-minor-detail-book-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210718T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210718T150000
DTSTAMP:20260422T231930
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SUMMARY:Hidden in Plain Sight: Uncovering the Canada-Israel Weapons & Surveillance Trade
DESCRIPTION:A few months ago it was announced that the Canadian military would buy new drone surveillance technology manufactured in Israel and ‘battle-tested during Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza when 164 children were killed by drone strikes. While the subsequent public outcry was well-warranted\, this announcement was simply rare peek into a massive—and very secretive— an ongoing collaboration between Canada and Israel on their weapons and surveillance systems. This includes extensive investments by the Canadian Pension Fund in Israel’s weapons\, Canadian companies manufacturing parts for Israel’s weapons systems\, Canada and Israel conducting joint police and military exercises\, and the two countries’ regular sharing of security information. The good news for antiwar and Palestinian human rights activists is that a new searchable database has just been developed — the Database of Israeli Military and Security Export (DIMSE). This interactive webinar will provide an introduction to the Israel-Canada arms and surveillance trade\, as well as hands-on training on how to use DIMSE as a valuable tool to dig into the trade and use of Israeli military\, security\, police weapons and surveillance systems and their suppliers. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n***Speakers include:—Mark Ayyash: professor of sociology at Mount Royal University. His research includes the study of violence\, post-colonial theory and history\, culture and politics in Palestine-Israel.—Jonathan Hemple: researcher for the American Friends Service Committee and the co-founder of the Database of Israeli Military and Security Export—Sahar Vardi: an Israeli anti-militarist activist and one of the founders of Hamushim\, a project challenging Israel’s military industry and arms trade.  \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nClick to Register
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/hidden-in-plain-sight-uncovering-the-canada-israel-weapons-surveillance-trade/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210627T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210627T160000
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SUMMARY:Supporting Palestine Resistance: Lessons Learned from a Holocaust Survivor
DESCRIPTION: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 adult during the McCarthy years; as a socialist activist printer fighting the Vietnam war\, as a labourer fighting sexism in unions and employers\, as an assistant to veteran socialists\, as a gerontological social worker and as a committed opponent to oppression of any kind. Her lifework has included transformative trips to Cuba and Bolivia\, Venezuela and Egypt. \n\n\n\nIn this personal and political talk\, Suzanne will incorporate her knowledge of her father’s experience in Palestine\, her experience of the Holocaust\, her work as a Jew in solidarity with Palestinians from 2005\, and her trip to Egypt to share how Jews can support Palestine today. \n\n\n\n\nClick here to register
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/supporting-palestine-resistance-lessons-learned-from-a-holocaust-survivor/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210610T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210610T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T231930
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SUMMARY:Webinar: The Use and Misuse of Antisemitism Accusations in Canada
DESCRIPTION: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 calls for boycotts and sanctions. In response\, the institutional Jewish community has linked these protests and condemnations to claims that there has been a significant rise in antisemitism\, conflating the movement for Palestinian liberation with hatred towards Jews. \n\n\n\nComplicating these claims are the isolated incidents of antisemitism which have taken place\, some of which have been shown to be false\, and others that can only be seen as verifiable instances of Jew-hatred. \n\n\n\nHow are we to understand the institutional Jewish community’s attempts to conflate a liberatory popular movement for Palestine with rising antisemitism? How is antisemitism being weaponized to push back against the growing movement for Palestinian liberation\, and how can we work to counter this weaponization while standing steadfast against real antisemitism? What is the political strategy being used in this current moment to attack the Palestine solidarity movement\, and how does that strategy rely on faulty assumptions and the structures of racism embedded in Canada?These are some of the questions this webinar will seek to address. IJV is proud to host experts from both academic and political backgrounds to engage these difficult but important topics. By discussing antisemitism\, its history of weaponization in Canada\, and our institutional Jewish community\, the speakers will seek to gain a clearer insight of what is really happening\, and what we need to do about it. \n\n\n\nClick here to register! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*Abigail B. Bakan is Professor in the Department of Social Justice in Education (SJE)\, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and a faculty affiliate with the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. With Yasmeen Abu-Laban\, she is co-author of Israel\, Palestine and the Politics of Race: Exploring Identity and Power in a Global Context. \n\n\n\n*Sheryl Nestel\, PhD\, has been active on the Jewish Left for many decades . She lived in Israel between 1974 – 1988. She received her PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies from the University of Toronto in 2000 and taught there from 2000-2012. She regularly teaches community courses on Israel/Palestine and has been co-facilitating antisemitism training to academic and community groups since 2019. She has been a member of the National Steering Committee of Independent Jewish Voices Canada since 2012. She recently authored a research report titled: “The Use and Misuse of Antisemitism Statistics in Canada” \n\n\n\n*Joe Roberts is a veteran political strategist in both the US and Canada\, Executive Director of the Centre for Canadian Progress\, Co-Host of the political podcast New Left Radio\, and Managing Director at Jewish Currents Magazine. Roberts served as an executive in Jewish Federation system for over a decade in both the United States and Canada. Follow him on Twitter @Joe_Roberts01.The event will be moderated by Dr. Rima Berns-McGown\, who holds a PhD in International Politics and currently sits as an NDP MPP in the Ontario legislature.
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/webinar-the-use-and-misuse-of-antisemitism-accusations-in-canada/
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SUMMARY:IJV Online Chavurah – Shavuot Session
DESCRIPTION:Click here to register\n\n\n\n\nFifty\, or 7 X 7 + 1\, is a magic Jewish number\, found not only in the counting of the Omer but also in the Jubilee cycle. \n\n\n\nThere is an ancient Jewish book\, the Book of Jubilees\, that is devoted to charting the creation and development of the world according to the Jubilee cycles. \n\n\n\nWhat is the magic of these cycles\, and why does Jewish tradition understand the world to achieve radical freedom and radical equality with the arrival of the fiftieth? \n\n\n\nCome to explore these and other questions at IJV Online Chavurah’s Shavuot Session on Thursday\, May 13th at 7:30pm ET in honour of Shavuot! \n\n\n\nEveryone is welcome! \n\n\n\nYou must register here in advance to join this session here.  \n\n\n\n**Participation is open to IJV members and non-members alike. If you aren’t yet a member\, we highly encourage you to become a member or make a donation to help cover our expenses. \n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\n\n\nWe look forward to imagining a better future with you. \n\n\n\nAbout IJV’s Online Chavurah\n\n\n\nIJV’s Online Chavurah is a non-Zionist space where we can build connections with like-minded people. All viewpoints are valuable\, and we encourage participants to share their own unique thoughts and experiences. This is not a group meant to debate differences in opinion but to share and support each other’s learning. \n\n\n\nIJV’s Online Chavurah does not presuppose any theology nor any particular knowledge about anything other than one’s own life. It uses a group format to explore Jewish text\, liturgy and theology\, providing time for participants to discover new meaning in old writings. \n\n\n\nAbout the facilitator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucia Pizarro is the first Mexican woman ordained as a rabbi in the Conservative movement. Her mission is to empower Jewish activists\, who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people\, to do Jewish. Lucia is a full-time mom while she develops the Jewish Liberation Theology Institute. She is a member of Independent Jewish Voices’ Spiritual and Cultural Network\, and a member of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Rabbinical Council. \n\n\n\nQuestions about IJV’s Chavurah? Email communications@ijvcanada.org
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/ijv-online-chavurah-shavuot-session/
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SUMMARY:Mending The World As Jewish Anarchists: Book Launch & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join Independent Jewish Voices Canada for the launch of the brand-new anthology of contemporary Jewish anarchist writing\, There is Nothing So Whole As a Broken Heart: Mending The World As Jewish Anarchists\, available now on AK Press! \n\n\n\nClick here to register \n\n\n\nThe event\, revolving around the theme of “mending the world\,” will feature reflections from editor Cindy Milstein as well as the following contributors: \n\n\n\nLeigh Hoffman is a Jewish\, punk\, polyamorous nursing student\, community builder\, and socialist living in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal\, Canada).  \n\n\n\nAaron Lakoff is a media maker\, DJ\, and community organizer from Montreal. He is the Communications and Media Lead for Independent Jewish Voices Canada. \n\n\n\nAmi Weintraub is a Jewish educator and anarchist living in Pittsburgh. They help organize Ratzon: Center for Healing and Resistance\, a place for queer folks\, youths\, Jewish folks\, and those from marginalized backgrounds to mend their jagged edges. \n\n\n\nMalcah is an Ashkenazi Jewish anarchist living in waspy Kingston\, Canada\, occupied Haudenausonee and Anishinaabe land. She has been active within locally based antiauthoritarian projects for the last fifteen years.  \n\n\n\nShoni is an anarchist Jewish representative of Neptune on earth.  \n\n\n\nAvi is a klezmer purveyor committed to yiddishkeit\, anarchism\, and cooking for community. He lives on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory known as Montreal.   \n\n\n\nAbout There is Nothing So Whole As A Broken Heart\n\n\n\n“A poem and a love note\, a prayer song and a protest\, an attempt to mend a burning world with the best of Jewish\, anarchist\, and Jewish anarchist traditions.” —Dan Berger\, author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThrough stories at once poetic and poignant\, There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart offers a powerful elixir for all who rebel against systemic violence and injustice. The contemporary renewal of Jewish anarchism draws on a history of suffering\, ranging from enslavement and displacement to white nationalism and genocide. Yet it also pulls from ancestral resistance\, strength\, imagination\, and humor—all qualities\, and wisdom\, sorely needed today. These essays\, many written from feminist and queer perspectives\, journey into past and contemporary trauma in ways that are humanizing and healing. They build bridges from bittersweet grief to rebellion and joy. And via concrete illustrations of how Jewish anarchists lovingly transform their own ritual\, cultural\, and political practices\, they clearly illuminate the path toward mending ourselves and the world. \n\n\n\nCindy Milstein is author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations and editor of the anthologies Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism; Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief; and Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy. \n\n\n\nBook Ordering Info\n\n\n\nWe encourage people to look for the book at your favourite local independent bookstore or anarchist infoshop. Encourage them to order it if they don’t already carry it! \n\n\n\nFor mail order\, folks living in Canada can order it through Kersplebedeb Books (at Canadian shipping rates) here. \n\n\n\nFor folks in the USA or overseas\, the book can be ordered directly from the publisher\, AK Press.
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/mending-the-world-as-jewish-anarchists-book-launch-discussion/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Primo Levi
DESCRIPTION:Independent Jewish Voices and Between the Lines are proud to present the book launch of Primo Levi\, an exciting new graphic novel by Matteo Mastragostino and Alessandro Ranghiasci. \n\n\n\nMonday\, April 19th\, 12pm EDT \n\n\n\nClick here to register \n\n\n\nTranslated from the original Italian\, this hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research\, interviews\, and Levi’s own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. \n\n\n\nIn the scene that emerges\, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive\, answering innocent questions with hard truths. Sobering yet tender\, Primo Levi extends a rare opportunity for readers both young and old to deepen their understanding of life\, death\, and the human spirit. \n\n\n\nWe’ll be joined by the author Matteo Mastragostino from Italy\, who will give a presentation on his book\, followed by a moderated discussion with Judy Haiven of IJV-Halifax.
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/book-launch-primo-levi/
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SUMMARY:IAW Webinar: Is Israel An Apartheid State? If So\, What Must Be Done?
DESCRIPTION:Click here to register\n\n\n\n\nIl y aura une service de traduction disponible vers le français  \n\n\n\nIsraeli apartheid. Israel and its lobbyists boil over with anger when they hear the term. Many media outlets continue to avoid it at all costs. While global social justice initiatives like Israeli Apartheid Week or the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign have been smeared as antisemitic\, including by the Canadian government\, they continue to gather steam around the world\, gaining the support of Jews\, Palestinians\, and people of all faiths and races. Palestinians have long referred to their day-to-day realities as “apartheid\,” while the leading Israeli human rights organization\, B’tselem\, released a ground-breaking report this year labelling Israel as an apartheid regime over all the territory it controls.  \n\n\n\nIf Israel is an apartheid state\, as many argue\, how can we work to win equality and justice for everyone living in the region? Join us for this event to hear what four of the leading authorities on the ‘Crime of Apartheid’ have to say. \n\n\n\nAbout the panelists: \n\n\n\nDr. Hanan Ashrawi is a distinguished Palestinian leader\, legislator\, activist\, and scholar who served as a member of the Leadership Committee and as an official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace process\, beginning with the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991.  Making history as the first woman to hold a seat in the highest executive body in Palestine\, she was elected as member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 2009 and most recently in 2018. In 1996\, Dr. Ashrawi was appointed as the Palestinian Authority Minister of Higher Education and Research.  \n\n\n\nGideon Levy is a renowned Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz\, that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Levy has won several prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories. \n\n\n\nDr. Virginia Tilley is a professor of political science who has worked on the question of Palestine since the mid-1980s. She is author of The One-State Solution (2005)\, editor and co-author of Beyond Occupation: Apartheid\, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (2012) and\, with Richard Falk\, the UN ESCWA report\, Israeli Practices regarding the Question of Apartheid and Question of Apartheid (2017).  \n\n\n\nJohn Dugard is a South African lawyer living in the Netherlands. During the apartheid era in South Africa\, he directed a human rights research\, litigation and advocacy centre in Johannesburg. From 2001 to 2007 he was UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory\, in which capacity he visited Palestine regularly and reported on human rights violations committed by Israel. In 2001 he chaired a UN Commission of Inquiry into the Second Intifada and in 2009 he chaired an Arab League Fact Finding Mission into Israeli’s 2008-9 assault on Gaza. He has written extensively on apartheid in both South Africa and occupied Palestine. (See\, in particular\, John Dugard\, Confronting Apartheid. A Personal History of South Africa\, Namibia and Palestine\, Jacana\, Johannesburg 2018.) He has served as judge ad hoc on the International Court of Justice. \n\n\n\nModerated by David Kattenburg\, Independent Jewish Voices Canada
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/iaw-webinar-is-israel-an-apartheid-state-if-so-what-must-be-done/
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SUMMARY:Dancing in an Upside Down World! An IJV Purim Party
DESCRIPTION:Join IJV on Saturday\, February 27th for an evening of radical intrigue\, mystery\, uproars and dancing to celebrate Purim 5781! We’ll turn your living room into the scene of history’s most dastardly plots & most courageous queer anti-fascist heroes\, as well as a topsy-turvy dance floor! Everyone is welcome to this online party. Coming in costume is STRONGLY recommended! \n\n\n\nRSVP here:
URL:https://www.ijvcanada.org/event/dancing-in-an-upside-down-world-an-ijv-purim-party/
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