Independent Jewish Voices Vancouver

Razing Palestine Book Launch
2025-11-20 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | Upstart & Crow, 1387 Railspur Aly, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6H 4G9, Canada
Join us as we commemorate two years of gruelling, heartbreaking and horrific genocide in Gaza. While our institutions would have rather we stood by and said nothing, not everyone remained silent. This anthology was written by Canadian from across the country who experienced repression, punishment and violence for standing up for Palestine.
RAZING PALESTINE: PUNISHING SOLIDARITY AND DISSENT IN CANADA is edited by Leila Marshy (author, The Philistine, and My Thievery of the People) and includes testimonies from journalists, healthcare workers, academics, artists and activists from across Canada.
Join contributors LIBBY DAVIES and SEAN TUCKER for an evening of readings and discussion.
As Gabor Maté writes in the Foreword: “This anthology is subversive in the most positive sense of the world. It seeks to provide an unequivocal and evidence-based response to the enforced silence around what millions of people the world over recognize as the most urgent moral issue of our time: the unspeakable suffering imposed on the people of Gaza.”

NOR:Vancouver Palestine Film Fundraiser
2025-11-30 12:30 - 18:00 | Cross and Crows Books
Watch rare and archival films that show Palestinian life inside refugee camps & confront your own biases of what victims should look like.

Watch rare and archival films that show Palestinian life inside refugee camps & confront your own biases of what victims should look like.
Come to NOR:Vancouver Film Festival! Narratives of Resistance (NOR) has curated a rare program to show the daily life under displacement, understanding that every refugee looks different and have their own problems, but should still be shown humanity.
​With help from Cross and Crows Books and SLICE Art Gallery, the festival will screen 7 short films and documentaries from the Palestine Film Institute and Nakba FilmWorks. Each film will be followed by a short discussion, and postcards from artists living in Gaza will be available to buy.
​For the past year, Narratives of Resistance (NOR) has organised over 7 film fundraisers and raised around $12,000 USD with collaborators worldwide. Everything raised has been donated to community aid initiatives for Palestine, and directly to Palestinian families themselves.
NOV 30 – Cross and Crows Books (12:30pm – 6pm)

A Man Returned (2016)
3 Logical Exits (2020)
20 Handshakes for Peace (2015)
Xenos (2013)
Tell al-Zaatar (1977)

NOR:Vancouver Palestine Film Fundraiser
2025-12-07 16:00 - 20:00 | SLICE Art Gallery, 1636 Venables Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5L 2H2, Canada
Watch rare and archival films that show Palestinian life inside refugee camps & confront your own biases of what victims should look like.

Watch rare and archival films that show Palestinian life inside refugee camps & confront your own biases of what victims should look like.
Come to NOR:Vancouver Film Festival! Narratives of Resistance (NOR) has curated a rare program to show the daily life under displacement, understanding that every refugee looks different and have their own problems, but should still be shown humanity.
​With help from Cross and Crows Books and SLICE Art Gallery, the festival will screen 7 short films and documentaries from the Palestine Film Institute and Nakba FilmWorks. Each film will be followed by a short discussion, and postcards from artists living in Gaza will be available to buy.
​For the past year, Narratives of Resistance (NOR) has organised over 7 film fundraisers and raised around $12,000 USD with collaborators worldwide. Everything raised has been donated to community aid initiatives for Palestine, and directly to Palestinian families themselves.
DEC 7 – SLICE Art Gallery (4pm – 8pm)

To My Father (2008)
A World Not Ours (2012)
