Media release 13 June 2010
Independent Jewish Voices (Canada) condemns Manitoba Education Minister Nancy Allan for caving in to a demand to censor a question on the province’s Grade 12 final Language Arts examination.  IJV-C also condemns B’nai Brith Canada for suggesting the censorship.  Allen reviewed one question on the test and not only echoed B’nai [...]

by Scott Weinstein*
It started out on a hopeful note. To kick off their hearings on antisemitism, an Israeli flown to Ottawa stated absolutely that Canada is a “pioneer” of campus antisemitism. Faster than you can say “Mazel Tov!“, his statement made the press release headline from the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism.
Jews are special [...]

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De Hélène Buzetti
Le Devoir, 20 mars 2010
Ottawa – Le Bloc québécois a décidé hier de se retirer de la Coalition parlementaire canadienne de lutte contre l’antisémitisme parce qu’il juge celle-ci «biaisée» en faveur d’Israël et contre les Palestiniens.
La Coalition parlementaire canadienne de lutte contre l’antisémitisme (CPCCA, de son acronyme anglais) est [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Attacks on human rights groups that probe Israel’s Gaza offensive are an insult to reasonable public debate
by Antony Lerman Tuesday 15 September 2009
The Guardian
The despicable attacks on human rights organisations investigating Israel’s Gaza offensive in January confirm Churchill’s observation: “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its [...]

The concept of the ’self-hating Jew’ has been dignified with a pseudo-psychopathology by those keen to suppress dissent
By Antony Lerman
guardian.co.uk
Monday 5 October 2009
From the moment he took the job heading the UN Human Rights Council’s mission to investigate human rights and international humanitarian law violations during the Gaza conflict, it was inevitable that Judge Richard [...]