Support from Israel lobby for Mulcair NDP leadership bid raises serious...
With voting underway to elect the new leader of Canada's New Democratic Party and just two weeks until the leadership convention, Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has discovered information...
View ArticleJoint statement on Minister Jason Kenney's condemnation of Israeli Apartheid...
As organizations and groups committed to protecting freedom of expression and public debate on Palestine/Israel, we demand that Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney...
View ArticleVideo: IJV Canada urges NDP members not to vote for Thomas Mulcair
Independent Jewish Voices (Canada) has launched a video to challenge Thomas Mulcair's positions on Israel and Palestine. According to IJV, Mr. Mulcair's leadership campaign represents an electoral...
View ArticleCanada fanning flames of war by cutting diplomacy with Iran
Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) is dismayed by Canada's move to sever diplomatic relations with Iran.read more
View ArticleJewish human rights group slams Harper government's UN vote on Palestine
A Canadian Jewish human rights group is condemning the Harper government's opposition to giving Palestine non-member observer state status at the United Nations. In a vote taken this week by the...
View ArticleGovernment stonewalling and possibly spying to shield controversial charity
Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a supporting member of rabble.ca. Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) is disturbed that the Canadian government is spending public funds and...
View Article'Disappearing Palestine' ads uncontroversial in exposing Israel's nature...
In October, 2013, 10 ads went up in Vancouver transit stations showing loss of “Jewish land” in the Middle East since 1000 BCE. It turns out that in the past three thousand years, “Jewish land” has...
View ArticleProtest against Stephen Harper and the Jewish National Fund draws parallels...
On Sunday, December 1, Stephen Harper was “honoured” at the Jewish National Fund (JNF) - Toronto’s annual ‘Negev Dinner’. A large and boisterous protest of at least 200 people congregated at Olympic...
View ArticleWho is on Harper's plane to Israel?
Headlines in the news trumpet the fact that the Prime Minister has taken a group of 208 (!) supporters to Israel, many at Canadian taxpayers' expense.Reading through the list is an eye-opener. It...
View ArticleHarper’s assertion that anti-Zionism is the ‘new anti-Semitism’ is morally...
During Harper’s impassioned speech to the Israeli parliament earlier this week, one of the many problematic items mentioned by our Prime Minister was his belief that criticism of the state of Israel as...
View ArticleElected Representatives on the Wrong Side of History: Israel is a Criminal State
As we approach the start of Israeli Apartheid Week on campuses across the country, it is worth quoting part of our Prime Minister’s speech to the Israeli Knesset during his recent visit to Israel: “On...
View ArticleOn Nakba Day, we continue to expose the Jewish National Fund in Canada
Today marks the 66th anniversary of the Nakba, the term used to describe the catastrophe that befell the Palestinian people when Israel declared independence. Leading up to and following Israel's...
View ArticleCritical Jewish thinkers take part in historic public debate
For the first time that I know of, an organized debate has taken place between an anti-Zionist and a liberal Zionist public figure. While this may sound unremarkable, it's actually an historic...
View ArticleHead of Canada’s Israel lobby slanders Islam Awareness Week with impunity
Shimon Fogel, the Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA)— the Israel lobby group that falsely claims to represent Canada’s diverse Jewish communities— recently...
View ArticleNDP’s anti-Palestine sentiment is part of a much wider problem
Paul Manly aimed to run as a federal NDP candidate for the new riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith, British Columbia. His key focus areas range from environmental and energy issues to health care, but he has...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the NDP: It's time to condemn Israel's massacres
Dear New Democratic Party of Canada,As fellow Canadians who are concerned with human rights, we call on you to condemn Israel's murderous bombing campaign on the defenceless population of Gaza.read more
View ArticleConservative Party staffers counter-protest at Gaza solidarity rally in Ottawa
Over 1,500 people protested in solidarity with Gaza at Prime Minister Harper's office in Ottawa on Tuesday, before marching through the city. While marching past the Prime Minister's Office, a small...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the Liberal Party of Canada on Gaza Massacre
Dear Liberal Party of Canada,Whatever one thinks of the Israel/Palestine "conflict" or Hamas or whether Israel is a democracy, we have one simple question: when will you speak out against Israel’s...
View ArticleI am Jewish and I support the people of Gaza
At two recent demos here in Vancouver, my husband and I each held up a sign that said "I am Jewish and I support the people of Gaza." The first time my husband held it up, within minutes a Palestinian...
View ArticleCanadian Holocaust survivor reacts to Elie Wiesel and other apologists for...
On August 1, 2014, Elie Wiesel, a writer, Holocaust survivor and outspoken supporter of Zionist policy, took out an ad in the New York Times and several other newspapers defending Israel’s attack on...
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