All the perfumes of Arabia
Lavender fields near Hitchin, England. Photo by DeFacto/Wikimedia Commons. “Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” —William Shakespeare, Macbeth,…
Middle East, War Zones, Human Rights,
Zionism: the root of the crisis in Israel-Palestine
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu displays a map of Israel omitting the occupied Palestinian territories during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Image from YouTube. The following is…
The threshold of intent
Medic carrying a wounded Palestinian child in Gaza. Photo courtesy Fars Media Corporation/Wikimedia Commons. On March 18, the world’s famine watchdog the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), whose “main…
An extreme act of protest
On February 25, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in…
Is the tide turning on Israel?
Damage in Gaza caused by Israeli airstrikes, October 2023. Photo courtesy Islamic Relief Canada. After four months of war, some Western leaders seem finally to be waking up to the…
Israel may have the least ‘moral army’ in the world
IDF soldiers in Gaza, February 12, 2024. Photo courtesy IDF Spokesperson’s Unit/Wikimedia Commons. Perhaps the most astonishing response Israel has offered to South Africa’s genocide case at the International Court…
There is no place for the Palestinians of Gaza to go
Men walk along a street ravaged by Israeli bombing in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 9, 2024. Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP/Wikimedia Commons. On February 9, 2024, Israel’s…
Eyeless in Gaza
A young woman carries her infant while walking on Rashid Street, west of Gaza City, on January 11, 2024. Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa/UNICEF/Flickr. “There is almost no kind of outrage…
Open letter: Civil society coalition urges Canada to stop arms transfers to Israel
Aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal area of Gaza City, October 9, 2023. Photo courtesy the Palestinian News & Information Agency-WAFA/Wikimedia Commons. Send a letter to Canada’s Minister…
A clarifying moment: Canada and the ICJ ruling on genocide in Gaza
The Peace Palace, seat of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. The court is the principal judicial body of the United Nations. Photo by the United Nations/Flickr.…
Letter from a Jewish person (this side of the screen)
The Islamic University of Gaza after it was bombed by Israel in 2014. The university’s Gaza City campus was bombed again and its buildings totally destroyed on the night of…
Ruling by UN’s top court means Canada and the US could be complicit in Gaza genocide
Reading of the ICJ order in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip. Photo courtesy the…
It may be genocide, but it won’t be stopped
“Red Ink.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused to implement the most crucial demand made by South African jurists: “the State of Israel shall immediately…
Chris Hedges: The case for genocide
“I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The exhaustive 84-page brief submitted by South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Israel with genocide…
A poem by Leila Marshy: ‘Kinship’
The Wall, photographed here in the Bethlehem Aida refugee camp, is largely built on Palestinian territory far inside the Green Line (1967 border) and cuts off many villages and olive…
Despair is the currency of massacre
All Out for Gaza demonstration in Montréal, Tuesday, October 17, 2023. Photo by Lital Khaikin. “More than 20,000 Palestinians have perished in the new war,” reads a newspaper photo caption…
Canada should support ICJ ruling on Israel’s genocide
The Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the International Court of Justice. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Last week, South Africa requested the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at…
Israel’s drone age
Unmanned aerial vehicle in Israeli military service. Photo by the Israel Defense Forces/Wikimedia Commons. On January 3, 2020, Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani was assassinated by a US-operated drone attack in…
Israel’s genocide betrays the Holocaust
“Never Again and Again and Again.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities…
The death of Israel
“Birth of a New Nation.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. Backed by the United States,…