We should support the demand for the reinstatement of Sarah Jama; but were she to decide to continue sitting as an independent MPP and to run for office independently of the party that has cast her aside, she would deserve full support. The voice that Doug Ford and—even more shamefully—Marit Stiles want to silence must be heard loudly and clearly.

Since the expulsion of the Palestinian Christians and Muslims and the arrival of European Jews, otherwise known as the Nakba, Israel’s legal apparatus has worked alongside paramilitary and military violence against the Palestinians to create a fantasy of an exclusionary ethno-nationalist state project.

Few socialists will find much to object to in Cannibal Capitalism, and many will say they’ve been advocating for versions of the ideas put forth in this book for some time, including the notion that “what counts as an anti-capitalist struggle is… much broader than Marxists have traditionally supposed.” But Fraser is not just preaching to the converted.

Local ownership of newspapers was the first thing to go in their sell-off to first absentee corporate ownership and now foreign hedge funds. Canada’s news media are imploding thanks in large part to government blundering. When we start picking up the pieces, going back to the beginning with community ownership of our press might be the best idea.

Let’s look at what’s happened in the weeks since Hamas’s horrific attack, which took the lives of more than 1,300 Israelis. Israel responded by putting the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza under what it called a complete siege. “No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel.” Collective punishment? Consider the boy in the rubble. An enemy combatant?

The Ontario New Democrats cannot be allowed to forget that, as a genocide loomed in Gaza, they expelled a critic of Israeli violence while their party leader, Marit Stiles, spoke alongside a man who compared Palestinians to cockroaches. As Owen Schalk argues, we must remember whose alliances the NDP values, and whose it discards.

The situational morality of our leaders at home and aboard is not just worth noting, it is the very terrain on which we must launch our struggles for the remaking of this world. That means thinking differently about what constitutes living a life, what constitutes caring as a refusal of others’ marginalization, exclusion, death, and genocide.

Wab Kinew’s victory over Heather Stefanson in the recent Manitoba provincial election is a moment of progressive hope in what has become a dispiritingly conservative Canadian political landscape. The win was the result of Kinew’s NDP campaign focusing resolutely on Stefanson’s health care record while leaving very limited lines of attack for the governing PCs.

Israel, with the backing of its US and European allies, is preparing to launch not only a scorched earth campaign in Gaza but the worst ethnic cleansing since the wars in the former Yugoslavia. The goal is to drive tens, most probably hundreds of thousands of Palestinians over the southern border at Rafah into refugee camps in Egypt.

In the wake of the recent events in Israel-Palestine, conservative and even centrist politicians all over the West have denounced rallies organized in support of the Palestinians and many have suggested prohibiting them and some have done so. Does the political will exist to support relevant governments banning pro-Palestinian gatherings?