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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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