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Web Exclusive: Rebuttal to CJC attacks on Independent Jewish Voices and Diana Ralph
The National Post published seven prominent articles defaming me and Independent Jewish Voices, between September 17 and 30. Now that these malicious allegations are resurfacing to undermine IJV’s and my own credibility, it is time to set the record straight.
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Web Exclusive: The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat AntiSemitism
The CPCCA has been meeting since last fall. “What Coalition?” you may be asking yourselves. Exactly this entity has been almost totally out of the public eye since its inception. Few Canadians are aware of this committee whose main aim is, to quote one critic, “an attempt to curtail freedom of speech and academic freedom across Canada, and to possibly criminalize certain kinds of human rights discourse.”
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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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Israel’s critics will not be silenced!
When public figures of the status of multiculturalism and immigration minister Jason Kenney and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff deem it prudent to attack Israeli Apartheid Week, a grassroots series of events organized every March on university campuses by a constellation of rag-tag student groups, we can say with fair certainty that the Palestine solidarity movement has arrived at the “fight” stage.
When the big guns are shooting at you, nervous airmen have observed, you’re probably flying right over the target. Consider the fact that top-level politicians are now taking time to remind us about things that used to be received as wisdom in these parts (Israel is good, Palestine activists are anti-Semitic kooks). Call me a nut, but our movement may be having an impact.
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Web exclusive: Obama’s Foreign Policy Failures
President Obama’s greatest foreign policy successes are found in the reports of the mass media. His greatest failures go unreported, but are of great consequence. A survey of the major foreign policy priorities of the White House reveals a continuous series of major setbacks, which call into question the principal objectives and methods pursued by the Obama regime.
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Banning art, blaming the victim and rewarding Canadian war exporters
Posters have been banned on two university campuses in Ottawa because they used a cartoon image depicting an Israeli AH-64 attack helicopter firing at a Palestinian child. The poster’s artwork, by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff, is based on reality.
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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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High Schools Against Israeli Apartheid
In July 2005, 171 Palestinian civil-society organizations issued a call to the “international civil society organizations, and people of conscience all over the world, to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel, similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era.” This call came after 57 years of ethnic cleansing, 38 years of military occupation and one year after the International Court of Justice issued its advisory opinion declaring Israel’s apartheid wall to be illegal under international law.
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From Apathy to Activism
Regarding the deeply rooted apathy that many students exhibit, my observation, and that of those with whom I have consulted in writing this article, is that it is an offshoot of a sense of self-entitlement. Most students have yet to experience any political upheaval or economic hardship for themselves. The wave of relatively steady economic growth in Canada, and the consumer culture that accompanies it, results in a dangerous combination of political complacency and consumer insatiability. Coupled with the demolishment of the welfare state, the resulting competitive individualism produces a sense of hostility expressed as self-entitlement, which has had a potent demobilizing effect across campuses nationwide.
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B’nai Brith Uses Human Rights Complaint to Squelch Critcism of Israel
Harry Abrams, B.C. representative for B’nai Brith, has filed a human-rights complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against Peace, Earth and Justice, alleging that the Victoria-based website, its editors, manager and director “contrive to promote ongoing hatred affecting persons identifiable as Jews and/or as citizens of Israel.”
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