Independent Jewish Voices Canada

Now, there have been condemnations of the column and calls for a retraction and investigation of the government funding that the National Post, which is owned by a U.S. hedge company, receives.

QP President Mark Hancock made a statement, so did the National Council of Canadian Muslims, and also a number of anti-Zionist Jewish organizations, the Winczewski Center, Independent Jewish Voices Canada, the Jewish Faculty Network, Jews for Tikkun Olam, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network.

These are small community organizations who are now a targeted minority within a minority because they're willing to stand up for the principle that a person can pray for and atone for what they choose to without being threatened.

Finishing up, as a non-Jewish person, I'd like to make a couple of points.

Um, ten, over ten percent of our tax-paying charity dollars going to a country with the same GDP, give or take, as ours is certainly a moral eth- eth- issue, if not an ethical issue.

And, um, I mean, I think, you know, fairly shortly it will be seen that, you know, maybe some of the campaigns that have happened, um, with some complaints that have been made to the Canada Revenue Agency, some of those go back with the Jewish National Fund that, um, Independent Jewish Voices has been involved in for a number of years, but ones that have been more recent, like Mizrachi, who supports Regavim, um, which is basically the main, um, main settler organization, um, that, uh, is really, uh, you know, focused on, uh, taking land from, uh, Area C of Palestine, but right across historic Palestine, and we've done stuff on webinars and stuff on that.

But an organization like that to others that we're, you know, we're seeing those complaints.

We, um, we're seeing also that, uh, less money based on access requests and such that we're getting back is actually being reported going to Israel.