Photojournalist John Pinel Donoghue was in downtown Toronto on December 10 to attend a pro-Palestine demonstration demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. The protest started outside the US Consulate before moving to Yonge-Dundas Square and then to Toronto Police 52 division headquarters after a protester was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer.

Zionists see Israel’s fight in Gaza as an existential battle for Jewish existence. And if you don’t support this fight, you’re against the Jews. That makes you irredeemable and not a Jew, even if you are legally Jewish by Israel’s maternal bloodline obsessed rabbinical court. That’s what I mean when I say Zionists want to act in the name of all Jews.

As Alexander Hill writes, Russia is a long way from being beaten and in many ways is in a stronger position today than it was at the end of last year. But getting that information out into the mainstream press is becoming more and more difficult—perhaps suggesting that the Western crusade against Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy, is not going to plan.

The great Palestinian poet and author Mahmoud Darwish once wrote “to be human is to love, to create, and to resist.” Darwish’s thought carries an important message for Canada: foster a culture of love and humanism, and strive to build a just and peaceful world by opposing all manifestations of structural and physical violence.

Google has proved that it’s not evil after all by coming through with $100 million a year for Canadian news, but history is starting to again repeat itself, as it’s still not enough for some publishers. The announcement last week that Ottawa had accepted Google’s offer to contribute a fixed amount annually to a fund, indexed for inflation, showed how flawed the Online News Act is.

On November 28, Panama’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the 20-year contract granted to Canadian mining company First Quantum is unconstitutional. The decision came after weeks of nationwide protests forced the government to announce a referendum on First Quantum’s contract for December 17. Now, however, the court seems to have decided the fate of the mine.

The savagery of the air strikes and indiscriminate attacks, the cutting off of food, water and medicine, the genocidal rhetoric of the Israeli government, make this a war whose sole objective is revenge. This will not be good for Israel or the Palestinians. It will fuel a conflagration throughout the Middle East. This war is not over. It has not even begun.

The deluge of American programming we have suffered under as a result of sim-sub and now the flood of advertising for sports betting have been bad enough, but to allow TV hosts to tout bets is going too far. As CD columnist Marc Edge argues, the CRTC should at least stop Bell from flouting the sim-sub rules by inserting bet-touting infomercials.

Over these last weeks, as Israel’s military machine has mounted an industrialized killing operation against hundreds of thousands of trapped people in Gaza, I have echoed the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” I don’t agree for a moment that this is an expression of antisemitic hatred or an incitement to genocide.

I stand before Guernica, the familiar canvas of dismembered bodies, dead babies and soldiers; a weeping mother, a shrieking horse; once remembered for its chronicle of carnage, warnings of mass murder to come, enough to move the dial from tragedy to statistic, now forgotten. Silence has settled upon the world, snuffed out by apologists for the sacred State’s need for human sacrifice.