HELP SPONSOR REFUGEES TO COME TO CANADA 🍁
If you are not Canadian, you can donate to CHAI or JIAS to support the sponsorship of refugees to Canada.
If you are CANADIAN you can:
Additional Resources for CANADIANS:
CANADIAN News Articles:
If you are CANADIAN you can:
- Organize or join a sponsorship group to help sponsor refugees to come from Israel to Canada. For more information contact CHAI: Canadians Helping Asylum Seekers in Israel chai@asylumseekers.org.
- Volunteer on the ground to help welcome and integrate refugee newcomers in Canada. For more information contact CHAI: Canadians Helping Asylum Seekers in Israel chai@asylumseekers.org.
- Contribute financially to the sponsorship of refugees to come from Israel to Canada. For more information contact CHAI: Canadians Helping Asylum Seekers in Israel chai@asylumseekers.org.
Additional Resources for CANADIANS:
- Briefing Paper: On African Asylum Seekers in Israel and How Canadian Jews Can Help (by CHAI and Right Now)
- Public Letter of Canadian Jewish Leaders: Don't Deport Refugees, Let Us Help
- CIJA Action Alert: Help Asylum Seekers come from Israel to Canada
- CHAI: Canadians Helping Asylum Seekers in Israel (Facebook Page)
- Guide to the Private Sponsorship of Refugees to Canada
- More coming soon!
CANADIAN News Articles:
- Article: "Israel agrees to halt deportations of Canada-bound asylum-seekers" (Toronto Star, Feb 24 2018)
- Article: "Canada raises 'concerns' over Israel's mass deportation plan for African migrants" (Kathleen Harris, CBC News, Feb 19 2018)
- Audio: "Dawit Demoz and Samara Carroll of Canadians Helping Asylum Seekers in Israel speak about mass deportation of African migrants from Israel" (CBC Radio Metro Morning, Feb 19 2018)
- Article: "Africans in Israel worry deportation plan could be a death warrant" (Derek Stoffel, CBC News, Feb 18 2018)
- Op-Ed by Irwin Cotler: "Israel’s African asylum seekers: What needs to be done" (Times of Israel, February 8, 2018)
- Article: "Jewish Canadians urge Israel to back off plan to deport African refugees," Nicholas Keung. Toronto Star, February 2, 2018.
- Article: "Canadian Jewish Groups Urge Action on Asylum Seekers in Israel," Paul Lungen. Canadian Jewish News, February 1, 2018.
- Op-Ed by Professor Gil Troy (McGill): "The Zionist Rx - Welcome ‘Infiltrators’ as Israelis" (Jpost, 16 Jan 2018)
- Video: Irwin Cotler and Alan Dershowitz Speak Against Deportation on ILTV
- Article: "Why Eritrean Asylum Seekers are Leaving Israel for Canada," Paul Lungen. Canadian Jewish News. August 10, 2017.
