by nikki-admin | Jul 6, 2023 | Organizations, Back room
Torah Jews is a website whose mission is to clarify the distinction between Zionism and Judaism. The website is rooted in the Torah and explains how traditional Judaism states that the Jewish people are “in exile by Divine Decree and may emerge from exile solely via...
by nikki-admin | Jun 4, 2023 | Other Voices, Back room
University of Toronto’s Trevor Young is the Dean of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, the Vice-Provost of Relations with Health Care Institutions, the Professor and former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and...
by nikki-admin | Jun 4, 2023 | Other Voices, Back room
Ada Colau Ballano is a Spanish activist and politician who assumed office as Mayor of Barcelona in 2015. Barcelona had been twinned with Tel Aviv and Gaza for 25 years until Ada Colau announced that the city would suspend its relationship until Israel ended the...
by nikki-admin | Jun 4, 2023 | Other Voices, Back room
Jalal Abukhater is a Palestinian writer and political scientist based in Jerusalem. In a February 2023 op-ed for The Guardian titled “There’s no cycle of violence in Jerusalem—only Israel’s lethal oppression of my people,” Abukhater describes the power imbalance of...
by nikki-admin | Jun 4, 2023 | Organizations, Back room
+972 Magazine is an online, nonprofit magazine run by independent Palestinian and Israeli journalists. The magazine spotlights overlooked communities who struggle against occupation and apartheid. “The Landline” is their weekly newsletter. In a May 2023 newsletter,...
by nikki-admin | Jun 4, 2023 | Organizations, Back room
The Jewish Faculty Network is a community of Jewish faculty from universities and colleges across Canada who share a strong commitment to social justice. Read about the network’s principles here, which includes their statements on Israel and Boycott, Divestment and...
Haaaretz journalists Gideon Levy and Alex Levac reported on a West Bank burglary case in 2020 in which a small Palestinian business was repeatedly burglarized by Jewish … Read more
Curtis Bell, President of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, spoke to the First Unitarian Church’s Department of Social Justice about his two months in … Read more
In 2000, the heads of Jerusalem churches wrote a letter to the leaders at Camp David as they decided the status of Jerusalem. In 2017, these patriarchs … Read more
Controversy fell upon the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 2022 as debate swirled between accusations of antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism. A confidential … Read more
On February 26, 2023, more than 400 Jewish settlers terrorized the Palestinian village of Hawara in the Occupied West Bank. For hours, the settlers set buildings and … Read more
Christians Against Israeli Violence: Churches Call to End U.S. Military Aid to Israel On March 10, 2023, ten U.S.-based Christian groups published a letter directed to President … Read more
