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Review: Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid
Thousands of books describe various aspects of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict … This is the first book to focus on Canadian support for the dispossession of Palestinians, for a state based on one religion, and for the last major European colonial project.
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Queers Against Apartheid: From South Africa to Israel
Like South Africa twenty-five years ago, Israel today portrays itself as a progressive liberal democracy, an endangered island of modernity in a backward and hostile region. The existence of a gay rights movement in Israel is deployed as another example of this modernity.
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Web Exclusive: Israel again gives Jews a bad name
After Israeli commandos murdered nine people and wounded scores of others in international waters, I concluded that Israel continues to give Jews a bad name. “How did the latest fiasco happen?” ask incredulous Jews. I present my inside-the-brain-of-the-beast explanation.
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Web Exclusive: Israeli War Crimes: From the USS Liberty to the Humanitarian Flotilla
On June 8, 1967, two squadrons of Israeli warplanes bombed, napalmed, and machine-gunned the US intelligence-gathering ship, USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 US sailors and wounding another 172. Almost to the day, 43 years later, on May 31, 2010, Israeli warships, helicopter gun ships and commandos assaulted a convoy of humanitarian ships carrying ten thousand tons of aid to Gaza in international waters.
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Web Exclusive: 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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Web Exclusive: The Real Reason Why Harper is So Gung-Ho on Israel
Retired diplomat Robert Fowler made a splash last month when he voiced the widely held view that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s slavish support for Israel was driven by ethnic politics
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Web exclusive: The Canadian Parliamentary Farce to Combat Antisemitism
To kick off their hearings on antisemitism, an Israeli flown to Ottawa stated absolutely that Canada is a “pioneer” of campus antisemitism.
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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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