Part 2- "They Didn’t Get Back To Me"
Yesterday I wrote about the plight of Salma Abuelaish, the eight-year-old girl whose family moved to Canada from Gaza and became Canadian citizens five years ago. Having accompanied her father,…
Gaza
Knesset deputy speaker Moshe Feiglin calls for concentration camps… conquest of ‘entire Gaza strip’
Moshe Feiglin – deputy speaker of the Knesset and a member of Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party – published a statement on his Facebook page on August 1 calling for the…
Israel: Rogue State
Why It Matters That Norman Finkelstein Just Got Arrested Outside the Israeli Consulate Israel has the right to defend itself. Arguably, so does every nation. Israel, however, gets a free…
UN Under Attack
I’ve avoided making many blog posts on Middle East politics because they tend to descend into dogmatic shouting matches on the Internet. I also don’t know every historic, geographic, religious,…
Democracy Now!: Gaza Ceasefire Collapses, Israel Kills 40 Palestinians (VIDEO)
Israel kills 40 Palestinians immediately following the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza, and the capture of an Israeli soldier, reports Democracy Now! The post Democracy Now!: Gaza Ceasefire Collapses,…
The Sins of The Fathers….
Scotland, Gaza, and the Shameful Silence of So Many Canadians Montreal Simon Blog Friday August 1st http://montrealsimon.blogspot.ca I share Simon’s horror at the silence….and I wonder if this is what…
Scotland, Gaza, and the Shameful Silence of So Many Canadians
I spent my last day in Scotland in this beautiful highland forest with Sébastien and a group of friends, taking turns leaping into the icy waters of a deep gorge.Celebrating…
NDP Youth Reject Leaders’ Support of Israel’s Gaza Atrocities
The New Democratic Youth of Canada rejects party leaders’ uncritical support of Israel’s ongoing war crimes in Gaza, demands that Israel “be held accountable for its actions.” The post NDP…
Harper’s Policy On Gaza: The Canadian Toll
While the cost of the Israeli invasion of Gaza is almost incalculable in turns of human suffering and loss of life, there is another casualty in all of this, one…
Dahiyeh – It’s How Israel Wages "Peace"
“We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. This isn’t a suggestion. This is a plan that…
American Jewish Leader Henry Siegman on Gaza: “A Slaughter of Innocents” (VIDEO)
“A slaughter of innocents,” Henry Siegman, an American Jewish leader and leading Voice of U.S. Jewry, says of Israel’s ongoing war crimes in Gaza. The post American Jewish Leader Henry…
Zionism Does Not Excuse Gaza
There are some self-identified Liberals (and New Democrats) who proclaim their support for Israel in its current butchery in Gaza and they tend to do it in the name of…
A Circus On The Levant
“Being a Jew isn’t like being Black or being gay or being a woman, or even Israeli where many Jews come from. Being a Jew is a choice, like being…
The Horror of Gaza and the Crimes of Stephen Harper
The situation in couldn't be bleaker or more horribly symbolic.The brutal Israeli assault on Gaza continues.The lights have gone out. Efforts to end the violence are going nowhere. And Stephen…
Canadian party leaders’ “callous devaluation of Palestinian life” condemned
In open letter, 690 academics, community leaders decry the “callous devaluation of Palestinian life” by the Canadian government and federal party leaders, urge condemnation of the continuing violation of international…
NDP Gaza cop out: Mulcair refuses to denounce ‘murderous assault’ by Israel
A recent post on World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) draws attention to the failure of Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) to “denounce the murderous assault being carried out by the…
Stephen Harper and the Baby Killers
He is a man who lost his moral compass a long time ago, if he ever had one.He is a liar, a bully, a cheat, a grubby little dictator.But at…
Politicians Betray Canadian Values in Israel-Gaza Conflict
Rights group says Canadian party leaders’ unequivocal support of Israel a betrayal of Canadian values, demonstrates “no nuance of understanding of the broader situation between Israel, Gaza and the Palestinians.”…