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We are Jews working to end our community's support for occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Demanding equality, justice, & thriving future for all. 🔥

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What: Community protest and demonstration at The Best Defence Conference
When: Tuesday October 20, 2026 – 7:00am, for the duration of the conference
Where: across the street from RBC Place London, 300 York Street, on the south side

Join Arms Embargo Forest City Oct 20th at 7am, for an all day community friendly protest at RBC Place, London, as they once again host war criminals for the “Best Defence Conference”‼️

Organize your group to come help us push the WAR MACHINE OUT OF OUR CITY, OUT OF OUR PROVINCE, OUT OF OUR COUNTRY ‼️

Scan the QR code to join the mailing list or email us at armsembargoforestcity.proton.me for details and updates‼️

If you missed protesting at last October's event, now is your chance to help as we STAND UP, FIGHT BACK!

BDC is a major weapons and militarization conference held annually at RBC Place London. Featured are some of the world's largest manufacturers of weapons and surveillance tech including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Roshel, and General Dynamics, all of whom are complicit in human rights abuses and genocides.

As you probably know, last year our comrades were successful in shutting down BDC for several hours through direct action. As a result of that success, we expect that security and police will increase their presence this year. As such we have planned a peaceful community protest, bringing together people from across the province. It is our right, and our duty, to continue to make it clear that we WILL NOT STOP protesting this event until they SHUT IT DOWN.

It is UNACCEPTABLE that Carney continues to increase militarism and invest more and more of our tax dollars into surveillance and death, while sacrificing the most vulnerable members of our communities to do so.

It is UNACCEPTABLE that THREE YEARS INTO A LIVE STREAMED GENOCIDE, Canada continues to aid, abet and arm the war criminals responsible for what we have had to endure watching.

We need to show up in larger numbers, and speak out together to forcefully state that the disgusting war machine is not welcome in our city, in our province, in our country, or in our world. We hope you can join us from all over Ontario.

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Join Arms Embargo Forest City Oct 20th at 7am, for an all day community friendly protest at RBC Place, London, as they once again host war criminals for the “Best Defence Conference”‼️

Organize your group to come help us push the WAR MACHINE OUT OF OUR CITY, OUT OF OUR PROVINCE, OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, OUT OF OUR WORLD‼️

Scan the QR code to join the mailing list or email us at armsembargoforestcity.proton.me for details and updates‼️

If you missed protesting at last October's event, now is your chance to help as we STAND UP, FIGHT BACK!

BDC is a major weapons and militarization conference held annually at RBC Place London. Featured are some of the world's largest manufacturers of weapons and surveillance tech including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Roshel, and General Dynamics, all of whom are complicit in human rights abuses and genocides.

As you probably know, last year our comrades were successful in shutting down BDC for several hours through direct action, organized by local and provincial groups. As a result of that success, we expect that security and police will increase their presence this year. As such we have planned a peaceful community protest, bringing together people from across the province. It is our right, and our duty, to continue to make it clear that we WILL NOT STOP protesting this event until they SHUT IT DOWN.

‘When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty’.

It is UNACCEPTABLE that Carney continues to increase militarism and invest more and more of our tax dollars into surveillance and death, while sacrificing the most vulnerable members of our communities to do so.

It is UNACCEPTABLE that THREE YEARS INTO A LIVE STREAMED GENOCIDE, Canada continues to aid, abet and arm the war criminals responsible for what we have had to endure watching.

We need to show up in larger numbers, and speak out together to forcefully state that the disgusting war machine is not welcome in our city, in our province, in our country, or in our world. We hope you can join us from all over Ontario.

Please share all over Ontario.

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🤔 What questions are you asking your city council candidates?

I voted for @dianachanmcnally in Ward 4 Parkdale - High Park and here’s one reason why.

Compare your candidates at:
WardWatch.ca
VoteToronto.com

Thanks to @ijvtorontoyorkbds for this:
IJV BDS Toronto & York Region, @ifnotnowtoronto, @worldbeyondwarcanada, The Canadian Arab Federation (CAF), @scan_toronto, Palestine Network - Shining Waters (PalNet SW), Jews for Tikkun Olam (J4TO), @torontocentre4palestine, the Jewish Faculty Network UofT, @winchevsky, @torontopalestinianfamilies,
@parkdalehighparkforpalestine, @justpeaceadvocates, @etobicokesouthforpalestine, @surj_toronto, @davenport4palestine, @ontariopalestinianra and @canadabdscoalition have joined forces to create Toronto’s Coalition for Ethical Investment & Procurement (CEIP).

CEIP’s aim can be stated simply: we demand that the City of Toronto end all business dealings with corporations that are linked to severe human rights abuses, such as genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, illegal military occupation, mass surveillance and mass incarceration. Ending the City’s business dealings means no more investments of public funds, and no more purchases of goods and services from human rights abusers.

With your help, we’ll be working to make ethical investment and procurement an issue in the upcoming municipal elections.

Visit the links in our bio to read CEIP’s proposed policy statement and an email template you can use to contact candidates.

For more information, email us at infoceip@proton.me

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The sun is shining in Toronto and it’s looking like a good day to wear cute shoes, call a couple friends and hand out some flyers calling for the city to adopt an ethical investment and procurement policy! Click the link in our bio for a PDF you can print at home.

Advance voting is taking place in Toronto between Tuesday, October 6 and Sunday, October 11, which means it’s really important this week to get the word out about CEIP and our policy proposal. Remember to email candidates about where they stand on human rights!

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Imagine supporting a fascist, ethnic cleansing society...and being allowed to hold a vigil on behalf of them. 3 years after Israels Hannibal Directive, decades of Hamas funding, and almost a century of systematic oppression, racism, hasbara, there has been no justice for Palestine. And Zionists think it's acceptable to support a genocidal ethnostate. @guelphtoday once again showing who they are.

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#guelphtoday #zionismisracism #antizionismisnotracism #guelph #jewsagainstgenocide #jews4palestine #guelphboomers #guelphzionists

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Ward 4 candidates respond to a question about ethical investment and procurement at an all-candidates meeting inside Roncesvalles United Church on October 2nd 2026.

The CEIP encourages all eligible voters to attend their local all-candidates meetings or email candidates to ask if they would support a motion requiring the City of Toronto to avoid doing business with, or investing in, corporations and other enterprises that are directly linked to severe violations of internationally recognized human rights.

Check out the links in our bio for an email template you can use and a copy of the proposed policy.

*Quick correction: the auto-generated captions should say “human rights“ instead of “youth crimes”

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Over 200 Jewish Canadians have signed our open letter calling on Immigration Minister Lena Diab and the Government of Canada to urgently facilitate the evacuation of Palestinian students in Gaza who have already been admitted to Canadian universities and colleges.

These students have secured admission, scholarships, and opportunities to continue their education. What many cannot secure on their own is a safe way out of Gaza and a workable path through Canada’s visa process.

Palestinian students should not be treated as a threat to Jewish safety simply because of their nationality.

Canada has the ability to give these students a path out of genocide and back into classrooms. It must do so.

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IJV BDS Toronto & York Region, @ifnotnowtoronto, @worldbeyondwarcanada, The Canadian Arab Federation (CAF), @scan_toronto, Palestine Network - Shining Waters (PalNet SW), Jews for Tikkun Olam (J4TO), @torontocentre4palestine, the Jewish Faculty Network UofT, @winchevsky, @torontopalestinianfamilies, @parkdalehighparkforpalestine, @justpeaceadvocates, @etobicokesouthforpalestine, @surj_toronto, @davenport4palestine, @ontariopalestinianra, @canadabdscoalition, South Asian Women and Immigrants Services (SAWIS), and @ur4palestine have joined forces to create Toronto’s Coalition for Ethical Investment & Procurement (CEIP).

CEIP’s aim can be stated simply: we demand that the City of Toronto end all business dealings with corporations that are linked to severe human rights abuses, such as genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, illegal military occupation, mass surveillance and mass incarceration. Ending the City’s business dealings means no more investments of public funds, and no more purchases of goods and services from human rights abusers.

With your help, we’ll be working to make ethical investment and procurement an issue in the upcoming municipal elections.

Visit the links in our bio to read CEIP’s proposed policy statement and an email template you can use to contact candidates.

For more information, email us at infoceip@proton.me

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On this Yom Kippur, we are called to reflection, reckoning and repair.
We are holding the fear and vulnerability being felt in Jewish communities alongside our commitment to the dignity, safety and liberation of all people.
May our grief expand, rather than contract, our humanity. May we have the courage to confront antisemitism and all forms of racism, hatred and dehumanization without turning away from the suffering of others.
There is room in our hearts to hold the whole.
Our safety is interconnected. Our dignity is interconnected. Our liberation is bound together.
G’mar Chatimah Tovah. May we all be sealed for a year of life, justice and peace.

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At a time of genocide in Gaza and escalating ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank, The Globe and Mail devoted significant space to Rachel “Archie” Matlow’s opinion piece about Jewish alienation, anti-Zionism and the harms they associate with anti-Zionist spaces.
The audacity of this framing in this moment is difficult to comprehend.
While Palestinians are being killed, displaced, starved and dispossessed of their homes and land, Palestinian life is once again pushed to the margins of a story centred on Jewish feelings, fear and belonging.
We do not take antisemitism lightly. But we refuse a conversation in which Palestinian suffering becomes background to a story that remains fundamentally about us.
We submitted this piece to The Globe and Mail in response to Matlow’s article. We were told that, as a matter of policy, the Globe does not publish rebuttals and were encouraged to submit a shorter letter to the editor instead. We have done that, but we also wanted to share our response here in full.
It is longer than the usual Instagram post, but we hope you’ll take the time to read it. These are conversations that deserve more than a sound bite.
At this time of the Jewish New Year, when we are called into reflection individually and collectively, we are asking:
Whose lives are we invited to imagine fully?
Whose grief are we asked to inhabit?
What is being done to Palestinians in the name of Jewish safety?
What is being done in our name?
There is a genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank that we must stop.
Let that be where we place our attention, our grief and our action in this new year.
Please read, share and continue the conversation.
— Jews for Tikkun Olam

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As we enter the Jewish New Year, 5787, we welcome all parts of ourselves into this sacred time: our grief, our rage, our hope, our despair, and our longing for a different world.

The Days of Awe invite us into reflection, realignment, recommitment and repair. T’shuvah asks us to turn, return, and transform, to look honestly at where we have caused harm, remained silent, become numb, or missed the mark.

We enter this year amid Israel’s ongoing genocide and occupation of the Palestinian people, and profound violence, dehumanization and injustice around the world. Our traditions call us not to turn away, but to ask what accountability, justice and action require of us.

For those of us working in caring and healing professions, these questions also enter the spaces where we work. We are called to stay curious about how our identities, histories and experiences shape how we listen, whose pain we recognize, what we make space for, and what we may have difficulty seeing clearly within and around us.

Our liberation, safety and dignity are bound together.

As we gather in community for these upcoming High Holidays, may our collective reflection, song, prayer, protest and actions carry us and all humanity into love, justice and collective liberation.

Jews for Tikkun Olam

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At a time when every day brings new horrors in Gaza and the West Bank due to the boundless brutality of the Israeli state, when Palestinians are being murdered daily, the University of Toronto plans to host...a Zionism conference.

“A Canary’s Song” will present those who oppose genocide, occupation and apartheid as “the contemporary face of Jew-hatred.”

Speakers include an expansive list of genocide-deniers, who will be welcomed by Melanie Woodin, President of the University of Toronto.

U of T’s website promises incoming students “a caring, inclusive community that nurtures every newcomer.” Caring and inclusive—UNLESS you’re Palestinian, Lebanese, care about human rights or oppose genocide.

To call anti-Zionism racist is absurd when it is Zionism that is based on the idea of racial superiority.

The Israeli state uses explicitly racist laws to justify and uphold settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing and the genocide of Palestinian people.

We urge the University of Toronto to cancel the conference. U of T must refuse to host “thinkers” who deny the daily slaughter of Palestinians and demonize those who advocate for Palestinian dignity, freedom and rights.

Write to President Woodin: m.woodin@utoronto.ca

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