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Position Statements

Ceasefire and Free Palestine

January 15, 2025

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.

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We Stand with the Syrian People

December 12, 2024

Following the sudden and unexpected fall of the Assad regime in Syria, we stand at a crossroads for justice and liberation across the region. We have witnessed the mass liberation […]

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IJV Condemns Police Repression Against Palestine Solidarity Movement

December 2, 2024

Across Canada and internationally, we are seeing a marked rise in violent repression of the Palestine solidarity movement. Independent Jewish Voices condemns the mounting criminalization of Palestine solidarity activism, and […]

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Victory! Federal Court confirms end of JNF Canada’s charitable status

November 12, 2024

As Jewish organizations and groups, we express our support for Francesca Albanese, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967.

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IJV Statement on Zionism

November 12, 2024

In June 2024, IJV members voted to adopt the following position statement:

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IJV stands with Francesca Albanese and condemns baseless campaign against her

November 1, 2024

Independent Jewish Voices unequivocally stands in support of Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territory, in the face of a shameful smear campaign orchestrated by organizations […]

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Honouring Survivors, Supporting Justice

September 30, 2024

We must commit to doing more for indigenous communities on this national day for truth and reconciliation and beyond. On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Independent Jewish Voices […]

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IJV condemns Israel’s campaign of terror in Lebanon

September 19, 2024

For the past few days a campaign of terror has unleashed havoc and death in Lebanon. On Tuesday a coordinated explosion of pagers across Lebanon left 12 dead, hundreds in […]

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Campaign update: No more tax breaks for apartheid!

September 5, 2024

JNF Canada’s charity status has been officially revoked. On August 10th the revocation notice for JNF Canada was published in the Canada Gazette, the official newspaper of the Canadian Government. […]

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Israeli hostages and Palestinians are just as worthy of mourning

September 3, 2024

We mourn the deaths of six Israeli hostages found killed over the weekend just as we mourn the 47 Palestinians killed the same day by Israel, and the more than […]

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Independent Jewish Voices Condemns Bomb Threats Against Canadian Jewish Institutions

August 30, 2024

On August 21, over 100 Jewish institutions and synagogues in Canada received bomb threats. Independent Jewish Voices is appalled and outraged by these heinous acts of terror, which are a […]

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Independent Jewish Voices Stands with Fred Hahn

August 22, 2024

Pro-Israel organizations in Canada are trying to chalk up another victim of a campaign of “civil terror” meant to silence critics of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Some Jewish organizations […]

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IJV and PAJU caution against a new educational resource on antisemitism promoted by CIJA

July 22, 2024

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) and Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU) are  horrified by the Quebec provincial government’s and local media’s uncritical reception of CIJA’s Unlearn It curriculum, which includes harmful […]

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UWindsor agreement a victory for student encampments everywhere

July 16, 2024

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) applauds the agreement reached between the University of Windsor and the Uwindsor Liberation Zone encampment students. The University of Windsor is following a long tradition of […]

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Nine Months of Genocide in Gaza

July 10, 2024

This week marks nine months of Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people in Gaza. The latest official estimates indicate that over 38,000 Palestinians have been killed so far, though […]

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Quebec Deposit and Investment Fund: Human rights at the mercy of profitability

July 8, 2024

The dismantling of the “Al-Soumoud” camp in front of the Quebec Deposit and Investment Fund (CDPQ) is the result of the SPVM’s violent repression of citizens’ right to refuse Quebec’s […]

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Newly-appointed Canadian Human Rights Commission Chief has no reason to apologize

July 2, 2024

Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) joins with the Yukon Human Rights Commission in rejecting calls for the appointment of Birju Dattani as the new head of the Canadian Human Rights […]

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The B’nai Brith Audit of Antisemitic Incidents: An Unreliable and Dangerous Document

June 7, 2024

Allegations of widespread antisemitism in Canada have penetrated the media and the political sphere. But a careful analysis of these claims shows that while there is a rise in antisemitic […]

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IJV Canada Salutes the Victories of Student-led Encampments Across Canada

June 4, 2024

It has now been a month since the first student-led encampment in solidarity with Palestine was established on the lower field of McGill University in Montréal. During that time dozens […]

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Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights Re: Study of Antisemitism

May 27, 2024

Dr. Sheryl Nestel on behalf of Independent Jewish Voices Canada My name is Dr. Sheryl Nestel. I am a retired sociologist and Affiliated Scholar at New College at the University […]

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Jewish Canadians call on Canada to support ICC seeking arrest warrants

May 21, 2024

As the Israeli campaign of genocidal violence against the civilian population of Gaza reaches the 8 month mark, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has […]

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Reflecting on the ongoing Nakba after 76 years

May 14, 2024

Fleeing constant bombardment, a doctor – descended from refugees, like most of the population of Gaza – scribbles “remember our names” on a hospital whiteboard. A teenage boy carries his […]

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More Repression Will Not Make Jewish Students Safer

May 9, 2024

The letter below is a submission from an IJV member to the Standing Committee of Justice and Human Rights regarding the study on Antisemitism and Additional Measures that could be […]

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Open Letter to the Minister of National Revenue

April 11, 2024

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 […]

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Today marks six months of genocide.

April 7, 2024

The world has watched for six months as Palestinians are murdered, injured and displaced en masse by the Israeli occupation. Canada has aided and abetted this atrocity. Canadian arms deals […]

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Unions Are Not Discriminating Against Jews By Showing Support for Palestine

February 21, 2024

On February 9, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) announced that 14 federal public servants who are members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) had filed […]

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IJV Steering Committee Statement on Anti-Zionism

February 8, 2024

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 […]

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Defunding UNRWA is Collective Punishment

January 30, 2024

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 […]

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The ICJ’s Provisional Ruling Shows Canada Must Act Now

January 26, 2024

Independent Jewish Voices Canada welcomes with optimism and hope the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) historic decision this morning, which detailed that provisional measures are required of Israel. Israel must […]

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Canada Must Support South Africa’s Application to the International Court of Justice

January 18, 2024

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 […]

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IJV Welcomes Canada’s Ceasefire Vote, Calls for Sustained Pressure on Israel

December 12, 2023

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 […]

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Reckoning with Genocide, 75 Years After the UN Convention

December 8, 2023

As Jewish people, most of us have grown up hearing stories of the Holocaust. No one should be better prepared than us to recognize genocide. And many Jewish people are […]

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A Temporary Pause Is not Enough

November 23, 2023

IJV welcomes with relief the announcement of a temporary pause to the devastating violence taking place across the Gaza Strip. The accompanying exchange of hostages for political prisoners is a […]

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“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” Is not Hate Speech

November 14, 2023

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” For sharing these ten simple yet powerful words, a Calgary activist was arrested, a Montreal film screening was cancelled, a […]

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Repression of Palestinian Solidarity on Campuses Must End

November 7, 2023

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 […]

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IJV Calls for a Ceasefire and Systemic Change in Palestine-Israel

October 8, 2023

With over 1,000 Israeli and more than 700 Palestinian casualties so far, the pain felt by those of us both in the region and connected to it cannot be overstated. […]

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“Antisemitism” conference in Ottawa platforms racists

October 5, 2023

On October 16-17, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and Canada’s Jewish Federations are putting on a conference in Ottawa called Antisemitism: Face It, Fight It, co-sponsored by […]

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IJV Demands Answers: Why Was a Nazi Celebrated in the House of Commons?

September 27, 2023

Last week, Canadian lawmakers invited a Ukrainian Nazi into the House of Commons, then gave him two standing ovations. Though House Speaker Anthony Rota has rightly resigned after inviting former […]

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Canada Must Pressure Israel to Urgently Release Palestinian Detainee Ahmad Manasra

September 14, 2023

To the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada I write to you today on behalf of Independent Jewish Voices, a national Jewish organization with chapters across Canada […]

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Vengeance will not bring justice: IJV statement on death sentence for Tree of Life shooter

August 17, 2023

A U.S. jury has sentenced to death the gunman who killed eleven worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018. When Robert Bowers entered the synagogue, he yelled, “All […]

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IJV Stands with Trans and Non-Binary People at the University of Waterloo and Beyond

July 7, 2023

Last Wednesday, June 28, a gender studies class at the University of Waterloo was targeted in an apparent hate crime that left a professor and two students injured. This was […]

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Canada must take concrete action following Israel’s assault on Jenin

July 6, 2023

Israeli forces have “pulled out” of their recent incursion into the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, leaving at least 12 Palestinians dead, including 5 teenagers, as well as […]

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Nakba at 75 – Jews Say Enough is Enough! End Israeli Apartheid

May 12, 2023

May 15th marks the 75 anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic). Nakba Day is observed in Palestine and around the world to commemorate the displacement of hundreds of […]

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Foreign Affairs Committee: Support the Motion to Study Canada’s Role in Israel-Palestine!

May 8, 2023

Dear Members of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, As you are aware, there is a motion put forward by MP Heather McPherson that may soon be […]

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Canadian and French Jewish Groups Stand with Hassan Diab

May 4, 2023

Joint statement from Independent Jewish Voices Canada and l’Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) For a second time in a decade, France is seeking to extradite Dr. Hassan Diab […]

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Statement on the Ongoing Unrest in Israel

March 28, 2023

On Monday, after weeks of mass protests, Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu finally announced that he would be pausing his far-right government’s controversial plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary.  In order […]

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IJV Welcomes Mohammed Alzaza, a Refugee from Gaza, to His New Home in Vancouver

March 21, 2023

Mohammed Alzaza was a 15-year-old Palestinian teenager in Gaza when he and his 12-year-old cousin were hit by an Israeli drone strike while playing on the beach in August, 2011.  […]

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Canadian Jews call for action following Israeli pogrom and comment from senior minister that Israel should “wipe out” Palestinian town

March 2, 2023

Independent Jewish Voices Canada is calling for immediate action by the Canadian government in response to yesterday’s comments by a senior Israeli minister that the Palestinian town of Huwara should […]

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Open Letter to Canadian Jews Concerned about Democracy in Israel

February 14, 2023

Dear fellow Canadian Jews, It is with sadness – but not surprise – that we watch in real time as the state of Israel moves to gut its judiciary. In […]

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#NoIHRA in Heritage Funding: IJV calls on Canadian Heritage to drop IHRA

February 13, 2023

#NoIHRA in Heritage Funding in front of an aerial view of the Heritage Canada buildings

Independent Jewish Voices condemns the Canadian government’s confirmation today that Canadian Heritage grantees must attest to the IHRA definition of antisemitism in order to receive or keep their funding. These […]

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