Across North America, repressive tactics against pro-Palestine voices are escalating. From Trump-era fascism in the U.S. to Canadian politicians threatening anti-protest laws, the crackdown is ...

IJV’s latest resource, S ilenced in Our Name: A Jewish Commentary on Canada’s IHRA Handbook will walk you through the Canadian Handbook section-by-section. It breaks down arguments for IHRA’s ...

Targeting universities for defunding is a dangerous step toward criminalizing Palestine solidarity at large. We’ve seen the Trump administration and ICE agents target student activists such as Mahmoud ...

This election, we won’t let political parties use Jewish safety to justify supporting genocide and suppressing solidarity. As Jewish Canadians, we reject the weaponization of antisemitism to silence ...

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) is proud to announce that we will be hosting an Anti-Zionist Refusenik Speaking Tour! Starting March 4th, Israeli conscientious objectors Tal Mitnick and Einat Gerlitz ...

When people in Gaza started appealing for help, knowing Jews who survived through the solidarity and compassion of strangers made it clear that I simply had to respond as best as I could. Little by ...

Mizrachi Organization of Canada: a major financial conduit for far-right Religious Zionist movements supporting settler violence and military assistance. Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada: a ...

We believe the adoption of the IHRA working definition is itself antisemitic, because it conflates critique of Israel with racism toward Jews as a whole, and promotes anti-Palestinian racism. IHRA ...

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 have called ...

In her latest report for IJV, Sheryl Nestel, PhD, compares conclusions drawn by B’nai Brith Canada from its 2023 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents with a recent academic report conducted by Prof. Robert ...

Ottawa, 23 May 2024—A new collective called the Coalition Against Antisemitism, Anti-Palestinian Racism and Islamophobia (CAAARI) is sounding the alarm regarding what they consider a “sham hearing” at ...

In a rare move, MPP Jama was censured on 23 October 2023 by the government in response to her public advocacy for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, which was characterized as “antisemitic and ...