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 ...

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 ...

Across North America, the far right and pro-Israel groups have been leading a repressive crackdown on Palestine solidarity. Canadians are watching in horror as the United States, under Donald Trump’s ...

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) is proud to announce that we will be hosting an Anti-Zionist Refusenik Speaking Tour! Starting March 4th, Israeli conscientious objectors Tal Mitnick and Einat Gerlitz ...

Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we pause to honour the six million Jews and millions more victims—including Roma, queer and trans people, disabled people, and political ...

In collaboration with Just Peace Advocates and Miles Howe, PhD, IJV has released a new report which details how funds ostensibly intended for charitable purposes are instead being directed toward ...

As Jewish organizations and groups, we express our support for Francesca Albanese, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since ...

Independent Jewish Voices unequivocally stands in support of Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territory, in the face of a shameful smear campaign orchestrated ...

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), United Jewish People’s Order (UJPO), and the Jewish Faculty Network (JFN) steering committee, object to the publication today of a handbook offering guidelines for the ...

“In the immediate aftermath of that day it became taboo to mention anything that had happened before. History had started, it seemed, on October 7th.” Part of the narrative of Israel supporters is ...

Pro-Israel organizations in Canada are trying to chalk up another victim of a campaign of “civil terror” meant to silence critics of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Some Jewish organizations have called ...

Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) joins with the Yukon Human Rights Commission in rejecting calls for the appointment of Birju Dattani as the new head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission ...