Read and sign our parliamentary petition here April 11, 2024 Dear Minister Bibeau, Over the past several years, you have been notified of concerns about a number of Canadian charities providing funds to organizations supporting the Israeli military and/or illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. These include requests for investigations that are in violation of the Income Tax Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act,...

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) is anti-Zionist. While it had many strains historically, today Zionism is generally understood to denote the political ideology that has provided the basis for Israel’s settler-colonial project and unfolding genocide in Palestine. As an organisation, we hold that the treatment of Palestinians by Israel is morally reprehensible. Zionism is the ideology underlying that treatment. This decision is consistent with our most fundamental values, which have held firm since IJV’s founding in...

Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) condemns Canada’s shameful decision to suspend further funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) while Palestinians in Gaza face the disastrous consequences of Israeli forces’ deadly assault. According to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on food security, famine is an inevitable consequence of such actions by Western states. The Trudeau government’s decision was made despite the fact that the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in its decision...

Over the past 100+ days, notably thanks to the brave journalists of Gaza, we have seen harrowing evidence of a genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli army with the overt support of many Western nations. Last week, South Africa stood in solidarity with Palestine at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), invoking the Convention on the Prevention and the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against Israel’s ongoing actions. The Genocide Convention’s main objective is...

IJV welcomes Canada’s vote at the UN General Assembly today calling for a “humanitarian ceasefire, the protection of civilians, the immediate, unconditional release of all hostages and humanitarian access”. While we appreciate this vote, it is more than 60 days too late. The disappointment and horror that so many Canadians have felt at this egregious delay will not be forgotten, nor will the thousands of lives that have been lost to date.  Canadians in the...

Following the deadly Hamas attacks, Israel has engaged in non-stop bombing in the last weeks on the 2.3 million people living in the Gaza strip. We are witnessing civilian Palestinian casualties in the thousands. Meanwhile, Israel has cut off electricity, water, humanitarian aid, and internet and phone service to the people of Gaza. These restrictions on vital utilities are considered war crimes. People have lost entire families and Palestinians and allies all over the world...