Our newest cohort of Common Roots High School Ambassadors joined AVI for a Winter retreat focused on advocacy and education! Our 2025-26 Common Roots High School Ambassadors! Another successful high school retreat is on the books! Last week, our newest cohort of Common Roots High School Ambassadors participated in an Allied Voices for Israel (AVI) Winter Retreat centered around advocacy and education. Students joined us from Victoria, Montreal, Toronto, Regina, and across Can

AVI Student Ambassadors Liat and Bisrat's courageous advocacy efforts celebrated at Chanukah party hosted by the Consulate General of Israel Ontario Premier Doug Ford honouring AVI Students Liat (second from left) and Bisrat (far right) with the Maccabee Award for their advocacy work Coming off the heels of our first annual Herzl Awards , it appears that awards season is not yet over for our hardworking and passionate AVI Student Ambassadors. This week, Toronto Metropolitan U

PLUS: Urgent town hall on campus hate, AVI events from coast to coast, education, celebrating Christmas and Chanukah in Montreal, and more! Jewish and Persian students from York University, alongside AVI staff and advocate Salman Sima, at our 'From Persia to Jerusalem' gathering in Toronto As the year comes to a close and after our phenomenal Herzl Awards ceremony, it brings us great joy to continue to see Jewish and allied students coming together to build a stronger tomor

PLUS: Honouring Donna Holbrook in Toronto, AVI students table at OCAD University, teens meet with AVI at the University of Victoria, and more! Students from AVI and TMU with Interior Designer, Media Personality, and Israel Advocate Shai DeLuca Following the disturbing incident at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) weeks ago, where students were harassed for running an Israel event off campus, we partnered with Students Supporting Israel (SSI) TMU to bring Interior Design

PLUS: McMaster students encourage arson on campus over support for TMU attack, Jewish & Christian students unite at AVI event in Vancouver, and more! Click the above graphic to read the piece On behalf of Allied Voices for Israel (AVI), I would like to share how incredibly proud we are of our AVI Student Ambassador Liat Schwartz. Liat has not only worked with AVI dozens of times as a student at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) but she exemplifies what it is to be a Jewi

PLUS: AVI asks strangers to read an emotional poem from our poetry anthology, AVI's Founder moderates two panels at Tachlis! Conference, and more! Click the above graphic to register! We love highlighting our incredible student leaders, who have stepped up as powerful and courageous allies when our campuses and communities needed it most. Four of our incredible allies, representing schools in Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia, will come together for a panel discussion at

PLUS: Our Allies Speak Out Against Antisemitism poetry anthology, Israel rally in Vancouver, and more! Our AVI staff had a blast at our...

PLUS: A recap of our "Shalom Namaste" event, Rawan Osman is in Vancouver tonight, AVI students are leading panel on antisemitism, and...

PLUS: Indigenous leader speaks out for Israel, AVI Founder appears on IFCJ's Biblical Roots podcast, and more! Click on the above graphic...

PLUS: Our 'Shalom Namaste' yoga event is this Sunday, Rawan Osman is coming to Vancouver, our Nova Exhibit event brings out hundreds, and...

PLUS: Meeting with Indigenous leaders in Toronto, Israel raises Canadian safety level alert, and highlights from our high school retreat!...

PLUS: AVI/HRC Campus Media Fellow pens op-ed on being a Christian Zionist, AVI university students prepare high school students for...

PLUS: AVI's Founder discusses antisemitism on campus on the Honest Report Podcast, AVI quoted in the Algemeiner, and more! WATCH: AVI...

PLUS: Passover tabling at Mount Royal University in Calgary; "A Little Poland in India" film screening at Concordia University in...

Common Ground Ambassador Anastasia Zorchinsky voices her frustration at McGill after yesterday's anti-Israel protest blocked student...

PLUS: Upcoming event with Ethiopian students at York, highlighting efforts of AVI students at Wilfrid Laurier, McMaster, McGill, and...

PLUS: AVI staff and students participate in National Forum on Combating Antisemitism in Ottawa (Left to right): AVI Common Ground...

PLUS: Valentine's Day tabling for a cause at OCAD, hosting Professor Gil Troy in Montreal, and upcoming student initiatives at TMU and...

PLUS: Student tablings at TMU and Concordia, Shabbat dinner with OCAD students, Uniting Through Humour with Yuk Yuk's Mark Breslin, and...

PLUS: AVI students take part in #BraidsForAgam campaign, U of T event cancelled, and more! Click the above post to read University of Ottawa student Katie's blog on her experience as a Christian ally on our Common Ground Israel trip! We are proud to share that our Common Ground Ambassador Katie, a University of Ottawa student, was recently published in Crossmap Blogs ! In the piece, Katie describes her experience touring Israel with AVI as a Christian ally. “I experienced Isr