Iran And The Palestinians

Letter to the Editor, Toronto Star, March 30 2012 — Canada is more than a carbon copy of USA with regard to pro-Israeli policy. By general consensus, we are the most pro-Israeli Western country. [...]

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Palestinian human rights activism is not anti-Semitic

Letters to the Editor Ottawa Jewish Bulletin February 6, 2012

As a Jewish human rights activist, I was disturbed and disappointed by Oliver Javanpour’s November 28 World Affairs column (Is Israeli Apartheid activism creating the next generation of anti-Semites?).

Javanpour refers to “a soup” of Palestinian human rights organizations as “Jew-hating.” [...]

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Nova Scotia should not be choosing sides

By SAMIRA TAHA, LINDA SCHERZINGER and LARRY HAIVEN Thu, Jun 2, 2011 The Chronicle Herald

Imagine a country, let’s call it Country X, that frequently abuses the human rights of people under its rule, denying many of them citizenship and freedom to move, taking their land, practising arbitrary search and seizure, and placing [...]

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Comment: Name-calling won’t sink Boat to Gaza

By DAVID HEAP AND DYLAN PENNER (Dylan Penner is a member of the IJV Steering Committee. The IJV is supporting the Canadian Boat to Gaza)

London Free Press, www.lfpress.com

August 30, 2010

The Canadian Boat to Gaza has been the target of slurs and misinformation from various sources, including Mindelle Jacobs’ Aug. [...]

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IJV slams Israel for cutting off mail to Gaza

Press release August 12, 2010

“This is the [...]

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Letter responding to National Post article on IJV

Letter in the National Post (August 18, 2009 )

Re: Boycott to some, shunning to others (August 13)

This story mentions a document that was on the Independent Jewish Voices table at the United Church of Canada meeting in Kelowna, B.C. It was written by former Reagan administration official and Wall Street Journal editor [...]

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“Zionism, not Judaism, is at issue” by Andy Lehrer

(Note: the article this letter addresses was originally headlined ‘Israel Apartheid’ talk draws 100 protesters in the print edition of The Star. The title was subsequently modified in the online version)

Mar 06, 2009 04:30 AM

Re: ‘Israeli Apartheid’ talk draws 100 protesters, March 4

This headline is misleading as the article goes on to [...]

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Letters in defence of Sid Ryan

Recently, in it’s online “Full Comment” section, the National Post published a vicious attack on Sid Ryan accusing him of being an anti-Semite. Several members and supporters of IJV responded and these letters have now been published in “Full Comment”.

Re: George Burger: Anti-Semitism and its enablers

George Burger’s indiscriminate use of the term “anti-Semite” [...]

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Letter to the Hamilton Spectator

Harry Shannon of IJV Hamilton has had the following letter publishedin the Hamilton Spectator:

(Jan 5, 2009)

Re: ‘Israel rejects 48-hour truce’ (Dec. 31)

It is extremely disturbing that the Israeli government will not agree to a ceasefire in its battle against Hamas in Gaza. It means manycivilians there will continue to lack food and [...]

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Response to Lawrence Hart

This is a letter IJV member David Cohen wrote several weeks ago to Canadian Jewish News in response to a column by Lawrence Hart which attacked us. CJN published an edited version of it on July 31, 2008.

To the editor:

Dr. Lawrence Hart needs to be brought up to date. The meeting he writes [...]

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