Selected Praise for Unveiling the Chilly Climate Embracing a reflexive, radical approach to ethnography, Unveiling the Chilly Climate is an archive and a roadmap. The archive is a collection of ...

Since 1982, B’nai Brith Canada has published an annual “Audit of Antisemitic Incidents” which the organization claims to be an “authoritative document on antisemitism in Canada.” The authors use the ...

The situation in Palestine-Israel is growing more and more dangerous, with total casualties now in the thousands. The situation is now so dire that some are warning of potential genocide in Gaza.

Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) is deeply troubled by today’s announcement from the Prime Minister’s Office that Irwin Cotler has been appointed as Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving ...

Besides being a nurse, I’m Jewish, so I know trouble. I have helped coordinate disaster relief efforts & systems in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and in Port au Prince after the Haitian ...

With over 1,000 Israeli and more than 700 Palestinian casualties so far, the pain felt by those of us both in the region and connected to it cannot be overstated. The lives cut short in the past 48 ...

Mizrachi Organization of Canada: a major financial conduit for far-right Religious Zionist movements supporting settler violence and military assistance. Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada: a ...

We believe the adoption of the IHRA working definition is itself antisemitic, because it conflates critique of Israel with racism toward Jews as a whole, and promotes anti-Palestinian racism. IHRA ...

Since its inception 120 years ago, the Jewish National Fund-Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (JNF-KKL) has been one of the main engines for the colonization of Palestinian lands. It owns 13% of the land in ...

In this context, we welcome the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA) as a useful corrective to the dangerously flawed IHRA definition. If an institution believes it needs a definition, the ...

September 17, 2021 – Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) is celebrating the news today that the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law has just reinstated ...

Targeting universities for defunding is a dangerous step toward criminalizing Palestine solidarity at large. We’ve seen the Trump administration and ICE agents target student activists such as Mahmoud ...