Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) Carleton in Ottawa, Canada, have released a stunning video explaining why their university should divest from companies intimately involved in the Israeli occupation. It’s just the latest example of civil society taking up the issue of Palestine when governments and the elites continue backing gross human rights abuses in Palestine.…
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UNRWA needs backing not right-wing dissing
Canada’s conservative government unveils a policy to largely back the Western-backed (and corrupt, ineffective etc) Palestinian Authority: Last week, the government of Canada quietly announced it would discontinue its long-standing financial contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), and redirect the monies to strengthen the judicial system of the Palestinian Authority and…
“We are not blind Zionist ideologues”
How an increasingly vocal group of young Canadian Jews are speaking out against Israel’s racism and brutality.
From Australia to Canada with love
When Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV) launched in 2007, we were accused of being “self-styled radicals” and dangerous. We were clearly so irrelevant – Jewish solidarity on Israel was being challenged and therefore had to be countered – that the Zionist community has spent the last year hilariously demonising us and saying that we were…
Canadian Jews raise their voices
While Israel’s Supreme Court endorses the country’s implementation of apartheid roads the Palestinians are unable to use, Jews around the world are starting to stand up and publicly challenge the state’s illegality. Such as Canada: More than 100 Jewish activists from across Canada will gather March 28-30th in Toronto at a conference to form a…