Jewish Liberation Theology Institute

Excellent interview with Rabbi David Mivasair. He provides some background on the events of the NDP convention concerning a resolution calling for an end to the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. [Resolution 4-10-20]. He also discusses the growing threat to public discussion posed by the IHRA, including in Hamilton, and why it needs to be opposed. Interview On SoundCloud... https://soundcloud.com/unusua/ndp-convention-palestine-vote

JeLiThIn is proud to be among 17 progressive Jewish organizations from across the world who are urging a shift from discussing how antisemitism is defined, to a focus on how antisemitism can be dismantled, alongside all forms of racism and bigotry. This statement comes in response to the launch of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA) last month. We welcome the JDA (endorsed by 200 leading Jewish & Holocaust studies scholars) as an important alternative and correcti...ve to the deeply flawed IHRA antisemitism definition, though we do so cautiously and with some critique. "We believe in a world where we are all safe and cherisheda world without racism, without antisemitism, and without Islamophobia. As fascist, racist, and authoritarian governments and political parties increasingly amass power around the world, we are more committed than ever to the work of building a world where justice, equality, and dignity are accorded to all people without exception." You can read the full statement here: https://www.ijvcanada.org/jerusalem-declaration/

B’nai Brith’s interpretation of the state of antisemitism in Canada is deliberately misleading. https://www.ijvcanada.org/the-use-and-misuse-of-antisemiti/

https://www.ijvcanada.org/ijv-applauds-ndp-convention-dele/

#NDP have figured it out. Congradulations to all those who ensured the passage of the Palestine Resolution.

https://youtu.be/x2z7kEAy6mI

This week we learned at Jelithin's Community Pilot Group that Genesis 1:27 says God created the human both male and female, and this lead the rabbis to state that the first human was androgynous. If you are interested in this Midrash, I highly recommend Rabbi Elliot Kukla's study source sheet: https://www.google.com/url

Please sign the petition below calling on the Canadian government to: 1) Cease extradition proceedings against Meng and release her immediately; 2) Protect Canadian jobs by permitting Huawei Canada to participate in the Canadian deployment of a 5G internet network; and ... 3) Initiate a long-overdue foreign policy review to develop an independent foreign policy for Canada. The petition states that states that Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei Corporation CFO, committed no crime in Canada, and that her arrest was politically motivated simply because Trump declared he might release Meng if he secured a favourable trade deal with China and because he told John Bolton that Meng was a bargaining chip in his negotiations. It further notes that all the countries in which Meng Wanzhou travelled through refused US requests to extradite her, and this may have influenced US senators Marco Rubio and Ann Wagner of the Select Intelligence Committee to advise Trudeau to find ways to exclude Huwaei Corporation from the deployment of 5G technology in Canada, and further expresses concern that the arrest of Meng Wangzhou is tied to efforts of the US government to enforce unilateral and illegal sanctions against Iran, and provides no benefits to Canada while contributing to a growing new cold war with China. https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details

Continued understanding that criticism of Israel is not the same as anti semitism! https://www.cjpme.org/survey2020_r3

https://theintercept.com//israel-palestine-blacklists-ca/

"[E]ver since the general strike of 1936 and the great Palestinian revolt against the British mandate, anti-Zionism has been defined as the rejection of Jewish-only colonies, created on Palestinian land through expropriation and forced expulsion of indigenous Palestinians for the purpose of building the economic and demographic conditions for establishing a colonial nation-state in Palestine. It was only natural that massacres, genocide, and eventually apartheid would inevitably ensue where the colonizer has sought to establish dominance over the colonized." https://mondoweiss.net//01/rejection-imperialism-criticism/

https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_military_detention_fr

Remember my friend Atta Jabar, the Palestinian farmer whose home has been demolished twice, who has lost almost all his land to the Kiryat Arba settlement near ...Hebron, and whose home has been taken over by settlers and then burned? Well, just yesterday the "Civil" Administration, Israel's military government in the West Bank, confiscated and destroyed even more of his land and that of his brother and cousins. Showing up without any notice or explanation, Civil Administration bulldozers uprooted 30 fruit trees and Atta's irrigation system (as you can see from the pictures below) in order to expand the entrance to the settlement. Although Palestinians are not privy to Civil Administration planning, it has long been suspected that Kiryat Araba wants to "jump" the highway (also built over Atta's family land) and take the entire hillside -- his home and his shrinking farmland, as well as that of his neighbors. In fact, a sign at the foot of the hill declares in Hebrew that Atta's land is the site of the future Jewish neighborhood of Mevaseret Hevron, the "approach to Hebron." Atta is only one of millions of Palestinians facing impoverishment, collective imprisonment, repression and death under a violent system of Israeli apartheid supported, either outright or through complicity, by YOUR government. Indeed, voices protesting Israeli oppression and calling for Palestinian rights are smeared as "anti-Semitic," having the effect of placing Palestinians beyond any legal or moral defense. Raising your voice at home, in your civic and religious settings, in the press and to your government representatives is crucial for showing that concern for Palestinian rights, for Atta and for oppressed people everywhere, is mainstream and must be listened to.

https://ynefesh.com/2018/02/01/sealing-the-gates-of-heaven/

Are they listening? https://www.cjpme.org/r