A letter from IJV's National Coordinator, Corey Balsam To our community, In a few hours, I’ll walk into the Senate to testify before the Human Rights Committee on antisemitism. I’m here with Rabbi David Mivasair and racial justice scholar Joshua Sealy-Harrington. Together, we’re making sure the voices of genuine anti-racists are finally heard in Parliament. This moment didn’t happen by chance. For years, Zionist lobby groups like CIJA have tried to silence Jewish voices like...

The Canadian federal government’s Bill C-9, the “Combatting Hate Act” is a dangerous bill that could be used to protect hate in Canada, not fight against it. The legislation criminalizes protests against activities happening within certain buildings, regardless of the nature of the activity itself. This means if hateful views or events are being hosted in synagogues, churches, or mosques, people cannot protest them without risk of a prison sentence. This protection is also offered...

We welcome the news of a ceasefire agreement with cautious hope. The safety and preservation of Palestinian life is our foremost concern. Any agreement that will bring an immediate end to this genocide, the bombing and starvation, is cause for hope and relief. For two years, Palestinians have endured a genocide conducted in full view of the entire world with no accountability or consequences for the engineers of this atrocity. We have seen Israel break ceasefire...

Today marks the second yahrzeit, the two-year anniversary, of the live-streamed, brutal genocide in Gaza. For two years, in full view of the world, Israel has bombed hospitals, schools, places of worship, homes, agricultural land, vital infrastructure. Israel has blocked aid, assassinated journalists, healthcare providers, aid workers. They have bombed neighboring countries, broken countless ceasefires, and refused to do anything other than continually escalate the brutality of their violence in Gaza and throughout the West...

“Go after the architecture of the occupation.”  1 October 2025 OTTAWA - A new global coalition of civil society organizations spanning Canada and Europe are calling on their governments to urgently sanction the World Zionist Organization (WZO) and its Settlement Division (WZOSD) as part of their sanctions programs against Violent Settler Extremists in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Canadian coalition members submitted a 38-page formal economic sanctions request on behalf of the Global Sanctions Coalition...

IJV acknowledges Canada’s announcement that it plans to recognize the State of Palestine in September, putting it in line with the vast majority of UN member states. While we welcome a break, however small, from Canada’s traditionally subservient foreign policy alignment with the United States and Israel, the conditions it has placed on said recognition, coupled with Canada’s continued complicity in Israel’s occupation, find it coming up short.  Canada has stipulated that its recognition of...