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Powerful stories
Even if Hamas did commit every one of the atrocities of which it has been accused, this would not justify Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinians in Gaza, either morally or in international law. The comparison that needs to be made by the international community is rather with the infinitely greater horrors Israel has inflicted on Gaza since October 7.
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Latest transfer of 2,000-pound bombs from US to Israel not newsworthy to the New York Times
The saying that “justice delayed is justice denied” has a parallel for news media and war—journalism delayed is journalism denied. The refusal of the Times to cover the story after it broke was journalistic malpractice, helping to make it little more than a fleeting one-day story instead of the subject of focused national discourse that it should have been.
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How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach
In the unfair fight for automatic tax filing, Canadians need to get behind the underdog. While many of us might welcome and benefit from this service, it’s our vulnerable friends and neighbours who need it the most. We must come together to join the chorus calling for this crucial tax reform—and be louder than those motivated by nothing more than greed.
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Zionism: the root of the crisis in Israel-Palestine
As important as it is to bring an immediate end to the slaughter in Gaza, writes Sid Shnaid, the long-term solution to the ongoing crisis in Israel-Palestine requires that we address the root of the problem: the institutionalization of Jewish supremacy, based in Zionist ideology, upon which the state of Israel has been built.
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Why non-profit news might not be such a great idea
In the US, vast fortunes have been made recently, and wealthy Americans are increasingly donating to charitable foundations in order to avoid taxes and decide for themselves where to spend the money instead. A so-called “non-profit industrial complex,” has grown up around this lavish funding, which In These Times magazine warned amounts to “corporate influence-peddling.”
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When 1,000 in Hollywood proclaim support for Gaza slaughter
Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest Oscar speech.” The angry letter is a tight script for a real-life drama of defending Israel as it continues to methodically kill civilians no less precious than the signers’ own loved ones.
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The threshold of intent
The impending famine in Gaza is the result of deliberate, conscious, informed choices, and nobody in the Israeli or American governments can be in any doubt as to where they are leading. As Derek Sayer writes, we are on the threshold of a ‘final solution’ to the Palestinian problem. Ladies and gentlemen, this way for your ambient genocide.
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Fighting climate change: Beyond Canada’s carbon tax
Climate change is the most visible, most threatening expression of a larger, planetary ecological crisis. Our approach must be commensurate with the structural challenge that crisis poses to the way society is organized if we are to halt and reverse the ecological catastrophe toward which we are now hurtling—and which is fueled by our dependency on fossil fuels.
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NDP motion on Palestine a step forward, but not nearly enough
On March 18, the House of Commons passed an opposition day motion put forward by NDP MP Heather McPherson. It called for a reconsideration of Canadian policy toward securing Middle East peace in the midst of Israel’s onslaught in the Gaza Strip. The initial NDP proposal was significantly stronger than the final version—though not nearly as strong as it should have been.
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Strong vibes from a quiet source
This article by Sol Littman originally appeared in a 1987 edition of Canadian Dimension. It casts a critical eye on the Deschênes Commission, officially known as the Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada, which was established by the federal government in 1985 to investigate claims that Canada had become a haven for Nazi war criminals.