by Diana Ralph
Since its inception, IJV has worked in solidarity with the United Church of Canada to promote justice and security for Palestinian and Israeli people. We have worked with United Church congregations to help them implement the UCC resolutions for peace and justice in the Middle East which were passed in 2006 and [...]

“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 [...]

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

lettre parue dans le Devoir du 4 février 2010

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 [...]

Vancouver, BC
EDITORIAL: From the Sept./Oct. 2009, issue
The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism, made up of MPs from various parties, was convened this summer, arising from the earlier London Conference to Combat Anti-Semitism. In its introductory statement inviting submissions from interested parties, it described anti-Semitism as being “widely regarded as at its worst level since [...]

September 18, 2009
Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) wholeheartedly supports and endorses the Toronto Declaration.
We applaud the organizers and signatories of the declaration for the courageous, principled and successful effort to shine a spotlight on Israel ’s attempt to use the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to whitewash its war crimes through the so-called City to [...]

Independent Jewish Voices (Canada) represents Canadian Jews who share a strong commitment to social justice and universal human rights.

We especially promote justice, ethics, and humanity in Israel and Palestine, as well as in Canada.

IJV offers a range of Jewish perspectives which differ from those of the Canadian Jewish Congress, B’nai Brith, the Canada-Israel Committee, [...]

G40 Proposals Promoting Peace and Justice in Israel/Palestine July 13, 2009

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) is an organization of Canadian Jews who share a strong commitment to social justice and universal human rights.  We especially focus on promoting justice, ethics, and humanity in Israel and Palestine. We appreciate the United Church of Canada’s tradition of open [...]

July 6, 2009
The Raids on the Resistances Bookstore: Zionist Fanatics Practice Serial Vandalism in Paris
By DIANA JOHNSTONE
http://www.counterpunch.org/johnstone07062009.html
Paris.
Thousands of books drenched in cooking oil – that is the latest exploit of the Zionist fanatics who regularly attack property and people in Paris and get away with it.
In the early afternoon of Friday, [...]

The JDL’s request was positively received by the Conservative government
By Scott Weinstein March 27, 2009
An organization the FBI, the U.S. State Department and U.S. courts have branded a ‘terrorist organization’ has given advice to the Harper government that led Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to barring a British MP from Canada.
A spokesman said Kenney first heard [...]