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Zalman’s Story from the Holy Land and a rant against Margaret Wente
A column by Margaret Wente entitled “Ship of Useful Idiots” irritated me to such an extent that I felt compelled to respond to it rather than write about political events in Israel.
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Israel and the ‘A’ Word
While use of the apartheid analogy is mainstream elsewhere in the world, Israeli Apartheid Week is routinely criticized by Canadian politicians and media outlets. Canadian IAW activists, and their few public supporters, are put on the defensive and the debate becomes about whether organizers have the right to hold the events at all.
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Web Exclusive: Israel imprisons bicycler on Gaza war anniversary
On the second anniversary of Israel’s attack on the Gaza strip an Israeli magistrate judge imprisoned an Jonathan Pollack, a central Israeli activist, for riding a bike.
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An Open Letter to the Israeli Jewish Public: Support the Gaza Flotilla!
If we were not Israeli Jews, if the nine ships bringing 800 peace-makers from 40 countries would be sailing with humanitarian aid to an imprisoned population of a million and a half to, say, Haiti, the flotilla now on its way to Gaza would be hailed as a monumental event, and the government of Israel would donate another 50 tons of food and materials and a brigade of army volunteers from the “rescue corps.”
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A year after the Gaza War—Speech at the protest rally
A translated transcript of a speech by Nurit Peled Elhanan at a protest marking the one year anniversary of the Gaza War.
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Gaza: Defiant City
This is not a war. It is a slaughter — Dresden 2009. So far, over 1,300 Palestinians have been killed, a third of them children. Thirteen Israelis are dead, most of them victims of friendly fire. As we have seen on our television screens, all of Gaza has been turned into rubble with the children of Gaza mutilated, bleeding and dead. We can barely imagine the psychic wounds inflicted on 1.5 million cowering civilians subjected to 1,000- and 2,000-pound bombs, 155 mm artillery shells, cluster munitions, heavy mortar fire, air-to-ground missiles, white phosphorus and high-powered tank shells.
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Empire’s Ally
There has been much gnashing of teeth over Canada’s foreign-policy stance since the day Stephen Harper and his Conservative government was elected to office.
Canada’s relations with the U.S. on a phalanx of fronts have been at the centre of controversy.
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Drawing the Line on Anti-Semitism
Remember Tolstoy’s “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”? Genocides and war are like that, too. They are each incomparable. As you surely know, millions of Jewish people like me (together with a substantial contingent of homosexuals, Communists, Roma and others) were cattle-carred to Nazi concentration camps, subjected to horrific medical experiments, labour to death, gassing and other inhuman ways to live and die.
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