A Pariah State
With so many terrible things transpiring in today's world, it is often hard to feel any hope. Wars and injustices abound, and we are met daily with images of death,…
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We Can’t Afford To Look Away
As much as the world might wish to, none of us can afford to look away from the horror of Gaza, the man-made genocidal starvation underway, orchestrated by Israel. While…
Silence Is Not An Option
About a week ago, Gabor Mate wrote a heartfelt piece about the genocide in Gaza. His thesis was that we must speak out against the carnage. Mate is Jewish, and…
On Moral Injury
A moral injury is a severe stress reaction following the experience of an event or a recurrence of situations that contradict an individual’s moral beliefs. Moral injury is characterized by…
Finally, A Modicum Of Integrity
The images of the carnage in Gaza are hard to look at. Innocent men, women and children maimed and dead are scenes only the deeply depraved could welcome. And the…
A Brave Young Man
I sometimes wonder, had social media existed in its present form when I was teaching, would I have posted as I do today? Would I have been willing to risk…
Addressing The Horrors
The horrors in Gaza - none of us can claim to be unaware of them. Even harder, despite the efforts of Israel's apologists, is to adhere, with any conviction, to…
Say It By Its Proper Name: Genocide
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide…
We Are All Complicit
There are still many who both turn a blind eye to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and justify israel's atrocities as mere self-defence. If you believe that fiction, all I…
UPDATED: See No Evil
I have lived long enough to think I have seen the worst things that humanity has to offer. I shan't enumerate examples here, since they are legion. But not all…