We want to advise all of our CIC Scene readers that Independent Jewish Voices is announcing the cancellation of an SPHR (Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights) fundraiser for Gaza that was scheduled for this evening in Toronto. While they cite “unforeseen circumstancesâ€, we suspect that the level of interest in the event was too low to justify going forward at this time. That’s not surprising, since IJV’s total national membership is less than 200 people. Anti-Israel activists are now expressing outrage that the event was cancelled on 24 hours notice and with no further explanation.
Independent Jewish Voices is an organization that opposes the two-state solution – that is, two states for two peoples – endorsed by the overwhelming majority of Canadians and the leadership of the organized Jewish community, and partners with groups that are actively trying to remove groups like Hezbollah from Canada’s list of terrorist organizations. Independent Jewish Voices also endorsed the recent attempt to blacklist Israeli filmmakers whose work was appearing at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). This failed effort was widely condemned by Canadian media and by the international artistic community.
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