The United Church is critical of Israel and the treatment/ plight of Palestinians. Spokesperson Sid Shniad of Independent Jewish Voices has some interesting points of view. Rabbi Reuben Poupko defends…
The United Church of Canada’s governing body is meeting this week to decide if the Church will adopt a boycott of goods that come from illegal Jewish “settlements” in the…
Avraham Burg has an opinion piece in the New York Times this week titled “Israel’s Fading Democracy.” It’s well worth the read. Burg doesn’t shy away from addressing hard truths…
Share this: I love the Olympics, but not for the reasons you might think. It can be truly inspiring to watch the best athletes in the world – and the…
The CIA deems Israel America’s greatest counterintelligence threat in the Middle East. This is America as in Israel’s hands down greatest benefactor and defender. The CIA considers Israel its No.…
It sounds like a bad dream until you factor in two things. One, Assad has announced he has WMDs, chemical and biological, at his disposal and he’s prepared to use…
Questions have long been circulating about the strange circumstances surrounding the death of Yasser Arafat. In the months prior to his death Arafat’s health wasn’t what it had been, but…
Bahrain and Syria both have repressive governments and both had uprisings in 2011, the United States and Saudi Arabia stopped one but are continuing the other, showing democracy and humanitarian…
ANALYSISNeil Macdonald: Is self-censorship fueling Alice Walker’s Hebrew halt? (CBC this morning) Mr. MacDonald, with all due respect from someone who has Jewish cultural roots, you are letting your ‘fondness’…
Describing them as “a social irritant and a threat to the Jewish character of the state,” Israel is set to deport 60,000 African migrant workers, or, as they are being…
To us, they’re “refugees.” To many Israeli’s, including Netnayahu, they’re “infiltrators.” In Israel’s Knesset, refugees and asylum-seekers are derided as “cancer.” Demonstrators have attacked African migrants in Tel Aviv in…
The Israeli practice of holding Palestinian prisoners in so-called “administrative detention” is a violation of international law. Prisoners are brought before military judges who determine the length of detention. This…
I’ve been doing a fair bit of driving lately, often between the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Québec City. Entertainment while behind the wheel is typically my car stereo as…
Norman Finkelstein takes an unbelievable amount of flack for stating hard truths about Israel. In a recent interview on the BBC show “HARDtalk” host Sarah Montague kept raising objections to…
Having announced an early election to take place in September, Israel’s PM has suddenly announced a coalition government which cements his majority in the Knesset, and in my view substantially…
Over 1600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are holding a mass hunger strike. Two of them have now gone 70 days without food. This video can be found at YouTube…
The recently retired chief of Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency is warning his countrymen not to buy prime minister Netanyahu’s and defence minister Barak’s justifications for bombing Iran. Yuval Diskin…
Israel has supposedly legalized three more illegal settlements in the Palestinian West Bank. The Palestinian Authority strongly condemned the decision. “Every single settlement built on Palestinian land is illegal”, Chief…
Sorry, Evangelicals: Only one in five Jewish Americans holds favorable views of those aligned with the Christian right, a category that includes most of Israel’s evangelical supporters. The survey, conducted…
Message on a wall at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Last month, university students and activists around the world marked Israeli Apartheid Week, an annual series of lectures and…
