Kairos Palestine Denounces Israeli Ambassador to United States

Calls Ambassador Oren’s article in Wall Street Journal “inaccurate and manipulative”

Kairos Palestine, Bethlehem 17 March 2012 http://www.kairospalestine.ps/

Kairos Palestine, a group of Palestinian Christians who co-authored the document A Moment of Truth, denounces Michael Oren’s recent op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal (9 March 2012). In this inaccurate and manipulative text, Oren, Israel’s [...]

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Support from Israel Lobby for Mulcair NDP leadership bid raises serious concerns

With voting underway to elect the new leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party and just two weeks until the leadership convention, Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has discovered information indicating that key players at the highest levels in Canada’s Israel Lobby are backing the candidacy of Thomas Mulcair. [...]

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IJV Canada Condemns Jason Kenney’s Attack on Free Speech

Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) is demanding Jason Kenney apologize and retract his defamatory statement in which he condemned Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) and its organizers as anti-Semitic. [...]

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A weekend with Occupy AIPAC

By Scott Weinstein March 5, 2010

For the past two days I have been taking part the Occupy AIPAC (American Israel Political Action Committee) protests in Washington DC. It has been a very spirited affair. Many people have challenged the AIPAC delegates and the media’s assumption that Americans and Jews speak with [...]

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Freedom of Speech Is Under Increasing Assault Within the Jewish Community

By Allan C. Brownfeld Issues Winter 2012 http://www.acjna.org/acjna/articles_detail.aspx?id=588

 

When it comes to discussing Israel and events in the Middle East, freedom of speech is coming under an increasing assault within the organized Jewish community.

Even a brief look at organizational Jewish life reveals growing efforts to stifle free expression. [...]

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The Islamophobic GOP Candidates

From Islamophobic Contest by Khalil Bendib, otherwords.org February 27, 2012

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IJV Canada endorses the Global March to Jerusalem

NEWS RELEASE – For Immediate Release February 28, 2012

VANCOUVER, BC – The Steering Committee of Independent Jewish Voices Canada has voted to endorse the Global March to Jerusalem, an International non-violent event taking place in Jerusalem on March 30th.

IJV Canada will be represented at the Global March by [...]

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You Can’t Get There From Here

A proposal for “collapse with agency” in Palestine

By Jeff Halper Published by The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions February 18th, 2012 http://www.icahd.org/?p=8171

CONTEXT – Many people believe that an urgent and necessary first step towards ending the seemingly permanent state of oppression in Israel/Palestine is that the option [...]

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Israel to Demolish Palestinian Solar Energy Program

By Common Dreams staff Common Dreams February 16, 2012 http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/16-4 (Photo: AFP/Menahem Kahana)

A sustainable energy program in ’Area C’ of rural West Bank is being threatened by Israeli authorities. The program, which recently installed solar panels and wind turbines in 16 communities, is providing 1,500 Palestinians with electricity — who were formerly [...]

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Iran, Nuclear Weapons, and the Netanyahu Government’s Underlying Agenda

IJV CANADA – Contrary to the announcements emanating from the governments of Israel and Canada, Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) believes there is no evidence that Iran is on the verge of producing nuclear weapons. By way of contrast, it is widely known that Israel has been building such weapons since the late 1960s and [...]

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