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Sharing for . Please visit their IG for the whole slideshow. TL;DR: Antizionist Jews hate to see the Holocaust exlploited to justify the genocide in Palestine, and pro-Israel groups like the WR Jewish Community Council and Hillel Waterloo & Laurier don't speak for us.

Posted • On the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation, IJV-WR reminds Waterloo Region that "Never again" means "Never again for anyone." Our statement continues in the comments.

January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, designated by the United Nations. This day commemorates the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau (the largest N**i death camp) and enjoins us to remember the Holocaust’s victims, who included six million Jews; 500,000 Roma and Sinti; and thousands of others targeted by the N**is, including leftists, disabled people, and q***r people.

We, the members of Independent Jewish Voices’ Waterloo Region (IJV-WR) chapter, believe remembering the Holocaust requires us to prevent genocide from happening again: That is why we have spent the past fifteen months protesting the Israeli government’s attacks on Gaza. Israeli bombings alone have killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, including Sally and Dalia Ghazi Ibaid, who were supposed to enter a doctoral program at the University of Waterloo in December 2024, and Sofyan Taya, a former visiting professor at UW. The IDF has caused hundreds of thousands of additional deaths by destroying Gaza’s healthcare system and blocking humanitarian aid; it has also displaced 90 percent of Gaza’s residents; reduced most of the region’s buildings to rubble; orphaned 20,000 children; and obliterated almost all of Gaza's schools and universities. The IDF and Israeli settlers continue to carry out pogroms in the West Bank. [Continued]

Sharing for ; see their IG for complete info. Yipeng Ge will be at this rally! Only the solemn nature of the event will stop me from fangirling!

📣RALLY AGAINST F-35s📣

PCC Aerostructures’ Centra in Cambridge makes parts for F-35 fighter jets used by Israel to bomb Gaza and Lebanon.

Come protest outside this factory, stand against building weapons in our backyards, and demand an ARMS EMBARGO NOW!

🕐 November 16, 1:00pm
📍 24 Cherry Blossom Road, Cambridge
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Bring your family and friends!