‘No other country’
Palestinians from the village of Tantura, a month following a massacre by Israel’s Haganah, are expelled to Jordan, June 26, 1948. Photo by Benno Rothenberg. Of all...
Middle East, Human Rights,
The paradoxes of an Oscar win in a West Bank under siege
A Palestinian woman sits on the ruins of her house that was destroyed by the Israeli military in Masafer Yatta, January 2023. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. It’s not even five…
Making accusations of antisemitism with hardly any facts
Pro-Palestine rally in Los Angeles, November 15, 2023. Photo by Ringo Chiu. TVOntario’s star talk show host, Steve Paikin, wrote an opinion column on the network’s website on September 23,...
“You’re what this war is all about”—or not
A boy looking at an Israeli soldier in front of the West Bank barrier. Photo by Justin McIntosh/Wikimedia Commons. While reading Focus. Click. Wind., a new Canadian novel by writer…
Fear and sorrow in Jenin
Israeli soldier during the July 2023 Jenin incursion. Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit/Wikimedia Commons. For two days beginning on July 3, Israeli helicopter gunships pulverized dozens of buildings, storefronts, and…
What’s really going on in Israel’s political crisis?
Photo by Momo/Flickr We often hear the refrain that Israeli politics is very complicated. It’s usually used as an excuse to stop conversation dead. But given the current turmoil among…
Foreign Affairs acknowledges Israel has destroyed the ‘two-state solution’
An elder waves the Palestinian flag near the boundary with Israel, east of Gaza City. Photo from Flickr. Foreign Affairs is the magazine of the US foreign policy elite. Published…
Racialized are prime targets of pro-Israel attacks—and it’s deliberate
Photo by Abbas Momani Okay, let’s talk about an elephant in the room. What do Faisal Bhaba, Desmond Cole, Javier Dávila, Nadia Shoufani, Rehab Nazzal, Rana Zaman, Linda Sarsour, Idris…
Israel and the rise of Jewish fascism
“Where There’s Smoke.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed coalition government of Jewish extremists, fanatic Zionists and religious bigots represents a seismic change in Israel, one that will exacerbate…
How it feels to visit an apartheid country
An advertisement alongside the separation wall in East Jerusalem. Here the wall divides a Palestinian neighbourhood so as to limit the numbers of Palestinians in official Jerusalem. Photo by Philip…
NGOs push for Montréal-based firm to be added to UN database of businesses operating in illegal Israeli settlements
An Israeli police officer walks next to a Jerusalem light rail car, Jerusalem. Photo courtesy WhoProfits.org. On September 15, Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq and the Canadian not-for-profit group Just…
Walking into a minefield
Palestine solidarity campaign demonstration in Ireland. Photo from Flickr. Canada recently enacted the following amendment to its criminal law. Section 319 of the Criminal Code now states: (2.1) Everyone who,…
‘Apartheid’ is not sufficient: an interview with UN Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari
Indian human rights scholar, activist and housing rights advocate Miloon Kothari, member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel. Photo by…
The ‘terrorist’ smear: a settler-colonial ploy
Palestinian youth advance towards Israeli soldiers during clashes outside Ofer Military Prison, West Bank, 2012. Photo courtesy ActiveStills Collective/LensCulture. The Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the longest lasting disputes in…
Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera journalist demands international investigation
Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was one of the best known Palestinian journalists. Image courtesy Managers. Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) calls for an…
Normalizing Israeli-Arab relations: Diplomatic coup or unholy alliance?
The flags of the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and Bahrain flutter along a road in Netanya, Israel, September 14, 2020. Photo courtesy the Institute for Cultural Relations…
Forced evictions near and far: Canada’s complicity in the dispossession of Palestinian homes
An aerial view of the Israeli settlement of Tekoa in the occupied West Bank. Photo from Shutterstock. The practice of forced eviction constitutes a gross violation of human rights, in…
After the ceasefire: What’s next for Palestine
The Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza demonstrated that Israel cannot go on carrying out apartheid and ethnic cleansing ad infinitum without paying a price, writes Greg Shupak. Photo by Crazymaq/Flickr.…
Israel’s actions endanger Jews everywhere
IDF soldiers clash with Palestinians in Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, on December 31, 2017. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90. Israel’s longest-serving prime minister has…
Sheikh Jarrah, the permanent Nakba
View in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, February 2020. Photo by Albin Hillert. Sheikh Jarrah, a neighbourhood outside the walls north of Jerusalem, was the bucolic site…