WATCH: AVI students lead panel on life post-October 7th

Allied Voices for Israel (AVI)
Jul 10
4 min read

PLUS: AVI's BC Campus Advisor delivers powerful speech at Vancouver rally, AVI students are published in the media, and more!

*AVI Student Ambassadors Pe'er Krut and Melanie Segev participated in a panel discussion at the 2025 Confronting Antisemitism in Canada Conference*

Our AVI Student Ambassadors never cease to amaze us with their incredible leadership and insight into the student experience post-October 7th.

AVI Student Ambassadors Pe'er Krut and Melanie Segev, students at the University of Toronto and McGill University, respectively, participated in a panel discussion on the rise in anti-Jewish hatred on Canadian campuses post-October 7th.

The session was part of the Confronting Antisemitism in Canada Conference, presented in partnership with the Clarity Coalition, the Niagara Military Museum, and the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation (CAEF).

Our brave students shared their personal experiences as university students navigating a post-October 7th climate.

To watch Pe'er and Melanie discuss what it has been like as a Jewish student on campus the past two years, please click here.

*Click on the above still to watch BC Campus Advisor Stefanie Broit's full speech*

We are so proud of AVI's BC Campus Advisor Stefanie Broit, who delivered a gripping and personal speech on navigating the hostage crisis in Gaza while processing a personal traumatic event in her own family, one that made October 7th very personal for her.

Stefanie shared her story during an emotional rally in Vancouver in support of the 50 hostages who are still being captive in Gaza.

BRING THEM HOME NOW! 🎗️

To listen to Stefanie's full speech, please click here.

We recently put together this beautiful reel highlighting some unforgettable moments from our Common Ground program in Italy, and the incredible students who made the trip unforgettable.

To watch the reel, please click here.

*Click on the above graphic to read the full piece*

Mazal Tov to AVI/HonestReporting Canada Campus Media Fellow and Common Ground Ambassador Eden Kojdan for getting published in The Algemeiner.

In her thought-provoking and vulnerable piece, Eden writes about the complexities of being a queer Israeli Jew in a community that often aligns itself with anti-Israel movements, particularly in her hometown of Montreal.

“Every single Pride celebration around me is associated with anti-Israel movements, and more particularly, all the queer spaces I was once a part of in Montreal have forced me to leave my Jewishness at the door. To have a social life in these spaces means leaving my Jewish Israeli identity behind. That’s the constant heartbreak that I, and people who have the same duality as me, endure,” writes Eden.

To read “Being Jewish and Gay Today is an Act of Resistance,” please click here.

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Congratulations to our incredible student Arjun Gupta, whose incredible piece on immigrant identity in Canada was recently published in The Toronto Star.

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“While conflicts abroad have always shaped Canadian discourse, the war in Gaza in particular presents an acute challenge to our social fabric and faith in our institutions. For Jews, history echoes too loudly to ignore. For Palestinians, grief defies language. These are different experiences for different communities. For the rest of Canada, exhaustion has set in. People scroll past headlines, numb to the suffering, unsure what they are allowed to feel,” writes Arjun.⁠

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“History does not expire at the border. Immigrants know this. Yet, we often pretend otherwise. Canada’s narrative of multicultural harmony suggests that once here, history dissolves into shared citizenship. This fiction comforts, but leaves many immigrants feeling unseen, and many neighbours living with the quiet hum of past trauma.”

To read “Canada’s multicultural ideal is fraying. This is how we hold on to it,” please click here.

*AVI West Coast Campus Advisor Jean-Luc Mudingayi (left) with the Ambassador to Israel in Canada Iddo Moed*

AVI West Coast Campus Advisor Jean-Luc Mudingayi met with the Ambassador to Israel in Canada Iddo Moed at the Israel ShukTech Stampede event this week, hosted by Embassy of Israel in Canada during the Calgary Stampede.

To learn more about Jean-Luc's time at the Stampede, please click here.

*Click the above still to watch the full reel*

Lizzie Gordon, originally from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, and formerly Iqaluit, now living in Ottawa, reflects on the shared experiences of Indigenous peoples and the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland.

“We have the same experience of being relocated, being, feeling displaced. So I feel that we have a similarity in that,” says Lizzie.

From displacement to resilience, our histories hold deep parallels. Her words remind us that solidarity comes from understanding each other’s journeys.

This video is part of our Indigenous video series, in partnership with CAEF and Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem.

More voices coming soon!

To watch the full reel, please click here.