WAKE UP
Those are the opening words to Spike Lee’s Fight The Power, one of the most important movies ever made. It’s about racist hate and violence, and how quickly it can…
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The oppressed become oppressors
What happens when the oppressed become the oppressor? Because – make no mistake – that’s what has happened since October 7, 2023. At the start, the pro-Palestine contingent protested the…
The Jew hunters
Meet Davide Mastracci…Jew hunter? Mastracci is the opinion editor at something called The Maple. It publishes opinions with titles like these: “Israeli Products Should Have No Place In Canada” “Genocide…
An empathetic drought
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY – Barack Obama called it the “empathy deficit” – which the former U.S. President defined as “being able to stand in somebody else’s shoes and see the…
Welcome to the artsy-fartsy reality-free zone
Have our cultural icons lost their collective minds? Across the cultural landscape – music, film, books – it certainly seems that way. Musicians, filmmakers, authors have apparently persuaded themselves that…
TIFF, Qatar and antisemitism
Unlike Hamas, which still maintains an office in Qatar, the Doha Film Institute (DFI) operates out of a post office box in the oil-rich Middle Eastern country. But the institute…
The humiliation: what the Nazis did – and what is happening here, now.
“It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst,” the Swiss philosopher Pascal Mercier wrote, many years ago. “The worst is the humiliation.” The Nazis knew that.…
CBC, Israel, Jews and the truth
Media truth. For many, those words are an oxymoron – you know, two words that have the opposite meaning of the other. For many supporters of Israel and Western democracy,…
This is what Canada recognized
A Thai man is lying on the ground. He seems to be bleeding from a gunshot wound to his chest. The man moves his arms, a bit. A Gazan man,…
Israel needs to change the channel – and change its leader
Someone really needs to reacquaint Benjamin Netanyahu with the 1988 Hamas Charter. Quickly. In particular, they need to show the Israeli Prime Minister articles 10 and 30. In those, in…
Canada, tweeting from the sidelines
When a country doesn’t matter militarily or diplomatically, when no one is sharing intelligence with it anymore, all that it has left are…empty words, basically. Piety and preaching. That’s it.…
When the curriculum is Jew hatred
The worst places for the explosion in antisemitic hate? The United States, and then Europe – unsurprising, given their relative populations. But the country that has had nearly as many…
A new trade deal with Trump is a waste of time
The letter reads like it was dictated by a drunk at the end of the bar who won’t leave when it’s closing time. Donald Trump’s letter to Mark Carney, that…