“One Year Later…Gaza Remembered”, Talk given on January 30, 2010, at Vancouver Public Library

by Joanne Naiman
We are here tonight primarily to hear about the effects of an illegal occupation and war on the people of Gaza, and to express our solidarity with the Palestinian people. In the anti-apartheid movement, a popular slogan was [...]

lettre parue dans le Devoir du 4 février 2010

Auteurs: Souhayr Belhassen et Dominique Peschard – Respectivement présidente de la Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l’Homme et  président de la Ligue des droits et libertés

Monsieur le Premier Ministre Stephen Harper,

La Fédération internationale des ligues des [...]

4 février 2010 Canada

Auteure:Évelyne Jean-Bouchard – Candidate au doctorat à la faculté de droit de l’Université d’Ottawa – Avec la collaboration de la professeure Nicole LaViolette
paru dans Le Devoir

Le 22 janvier dernier, certains membres du conseil d’administration de Droits et Démocratie ont publié une ettre d’opinion dans Le [...]

January 24, 2010
Dear Embassy Editor :
RE: Jewish group brings strife to the community
Michael Fegelman’s letter repeats the National Post’s defamatory allegations against Independent Jewish Voices. The reality is that IJV represents Canadian Jews who share a commitment to social justice and universal human rights. We believe that both Palestinians and [...]

Speech at the protest rally: Tel Aviv, January 2, 2010
Version française:   Un an après la guerre de Gaza
[English translation by Adam Keller]
Good evening to all who came to mark the first anniversary of the Gaza carnage, and to protest on the comfortable  complacence which inhabitants of this city and this country exhibit in [...]

OTTAWA, Dec. 21 /CNW Telbec/ – Independent Jewish Voices-Canada (IJV) condemns Immigration Minister Kenny’s politicized move to defund social-justice church-group Kairos, which received government funding for 35 years. Kenny said this occurred because, in 2007, Kairos offered a grant to Sabeel, a Palestinian NGO that doesn’t mirror Conservative policy.
“This is the new McCarthyism. If you [...]

Green Zone a 20 minute long documentary, exploring Israel’s discriminatory policies in occupied East Jerusalem. Since 1967 urban planning has been used by the Israeli establishment as a tool to contain the growth of the Palestinian population in the mixed city. The impact of these policies has been catastrophic for many Palestinian residents, resulting in [...]

IJV Canada breaks the news about the most recent PACTI report released this week, in Israel ! “No Second Thoughts: Changes in the IDF’s Combat Doctrine                                                     [...]

The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics
by David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi

Tikkun Magazine septembre – october 2009
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains one of the most visible political issues on campuses around the nation. A rising level of concern about the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory (now in its fifth decade), as well [...]

By Larry Derfner
Jersulam Post, Oct 28, 2009

The kill ratio was 100-to-1 in our favor. The destruction ratio was much, much greater than that. To this day, thousands of Gazans are living in tents because we won’t let them import cement to rebuild the homes we destroyed. We turned the Gaza Strip into a disaster area, [...]