On November 23, 2020, OFIP hosted a webinar with Dr. Rashid Khalidi discussing his book "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine." Dr. Khalidi is the Edward Said Chair of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University in New York. He has a PhD from Oxford University and is...
Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJVC) made this video describing their Jewish values and their fight for justice. IJVC is a grassroots organization grounded in Jewish tradition that opposes all forms of racism and advocates for peace and justice in Israel-Palestine....
In this Ottawa Forum on Israel/Palestine (OFIP) webinar, Zochrot activists Rachel Beitarie and Umar Al-Ghubari discuss their struggle to get Israelis to recognize the Nakba and engage in a practical discussion about the Palestinian right to return. Zochrot...
Undercurrents, a podcast by the Mennonite Central Committee of Ontario, discusses in the episode “David & Goliath” the Mennonite perspective on Israel/Palestine—a perspective which resonates with the Jewish tradition. The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) reports...
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 cars on fire and threw stones at inhabitants and their homes. The Israeli police and military forces...
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 Biden and Congress calling on the end of U.S. military aid to Israel. The letter reads:...
Fareed Khan is the founder of the anti-racist activism group Canadians United Against Hate/Canadiens Unis Contre la Haine. He is also the Director of Advocacy and Media Relations and the co-founder of the Rohingya Human Rights Network. In the letter shared below, Khan...
Tom Freudenheim is a Jewish American who blogs at www.freudenheim.com. He recently wrote a letter to the Promised Land Museum, which reads as follows: “I’m devoted to the Forward, so when I read the article about you I was puzzled as to why I hadn’t known about you...
Judaism on Our Own Terms (JOOOT, formerly Open Hillel) is a network of ideologically diverse Jewish students and student groups which aim to share resources across North American campuses. The resources are shared through guidebooks and zines, both of which can be...