Canadian Author and Activist
Avi Lewis isn’t responsible for the decades of anti-Palestinian activism, but his recounting of family lore shouldn’t lead some to believe the family most responsible for NDP anti-Palestinianism were “anti-Zionist”. Yesterday Keith Porteous of Island Grapevine News emailed me to complain about an article in which I (in passing) labelled grandfather David Lewis a “fanatic... Continue Reading →
Yes, Avi Lewis is a “warmonger”. He’s more hawkish than Jean Chrétien on the NATO proxy war and has been silent on NDP militarism. I began a recent article asking “Is Avi Lewis a war monger? Does he want to prolong the costliest proxy war in Canadian history?” The piece detailed Lewis’ support for sending... Continue Reading →
Does Avi Lewis support NATO? Now is the time for leftists to ask his position on the belligerent military alliance. On Monday BC NDP Premier David Eby said he wants a new NATO bank to be headquartered in Vancouver. A few weeks earlier former NDP MP and Toronto mayor Olivia Chow called for her city... Continue Reading →
Is Avi Lewis a war monger? Does he want to prolong the costliest proxy war in Canadian history? His campaign’s response to a question on Ukraine suggests as much. Two months ago the Canadian Alliance for Solidarity with Ukraine asked NDP leadership candidates a series of questions including “their position on those on the left... Continue Reading →
Does Avi Lewis “profoundly disagree” with my campaign’s call to shut down the tar sands? Or to convert Real Estate Investment Trust units into co-ops? Or to expand indigenous jurisdiction? Or to eliminate billionaires? Or did Avi just want to distance himself from an anti-imperialist who has been widely smeared for challenging power? In a... Continue Reading →
The year of Canada’s radical militarist turn. 2025 was also “the year the No Debate Party refused to discuss this most significant political development”. “History will view 2025 as the year that our allied capital markets and banks swung full force supporting defence and security," explained Kevin Reed, president of the development research group for... Continue Reading →
“I think Yves should be allowed to run”. That would have been a simple, principled, statement from Avi Lewis. Nonetheless, his criticism of the unelected three person NDP vetting committee’s exclusion of our insurgent campaign adds to the pressure on the Federal Council to intervene against the subversion of party democracy. Yesterday Lewis emailed a... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis has driven his supporters down an authoritarian, anti-socialist, path. The NDP leadership candidate’s role in assisting the party establishment’s bid to crush an insurgent campaign doesn’t portend well for an individual whose family’s history is steeped in crushing the left. NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson has applauded an individual who fought for Hitler... Continue Reading →
Is it a wariness toward activism, hesitance around Palestinian solidarity, or partisan instinct that’s pushing Avi Lewis supporters to advance misleading claims? While the NDP’s position has greatly improved on the lawless genocidal apartheid state, the recent debate exposed its limitations. According to multiple Avi supporters and opponents of my NDP leadership bid, all... Continue Reading →
A new book on Canada’s role in the destruction of Libya should embarrass the NDP and prompt members to ask tough questions of leadership candidates. Would Avi Lewis, Rob Ashton or Heather McPherson have promoted the destruction of the North African nation? Targeting Libya: Canadian Dams, Canadian Bombs is the definitive account of Canada’s significant... Continue Reading →
The Breach has defamed my campaign’s fundraising success. But its finances are far more noteworthy and its willingness to punch down stems from a self-proclaimed “left’ and its political economy that is hostile to anti-imperialism. On a Breach podcast a week ago Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole spent 10 minutes maliciously lying about my campaign’s... Continue Reading →
Heather vs Avi. That’s how the liberal media and NDP brass would like to frame the leadership race but, unfortunately for them there’s an anti-genocide, anti-military and anti-US insurgent left campaign promoting economic democracy, degrowth and land back policies, which is already shaping the debate. In “Heather McPherson, Avi Lewis prepare NDP leadership bids”... Continue Reading →
Genocide advocates are whipped up by my call to defend Canadians’ civil liberties and a colonized people’s internationally enshrined right to resist a brutal occupation. The panic highlights just how weak the NDP’s opposition to a live-streamed holocaust has been. On Sunday I told a Montreal 4 Palestine demonstration that as part of my bid... Continue Reading →
The NDP leadership race is being gamed to favour an individual who supported buying a tar sands pipeline, applauded a Nazi, engaged with a CIA talk shop, sits on a NATO parliamentary body and praises Canada’s leading proponent of a state committing a holocaust. Is the NDP willing to forego $150 000+ to protect their... Continue Reading →
Selina Robinson must be removed from the BC NDP cabinet. The post-secondary education minister has spoken and acted as if she is an authoritarian, genocide-promoting Jewish supremacist. In a recent speech to B’nai Brith Robinson called Palestine before European colonization “a crappy piece of land with nothing on it.” She added, “there were, you know,... Continue Reading →
Is Lula a pro-Russian “tankie”? Should the Canadian left echo or marginalize his outlook on Ukraine? Last week Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called on the US and other countries to “stop supplyingweapons and encouraging war” in Ukraine. He said, “the United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace;... Continue Reading →
The Canadian foreign policy status quo won Monday’s election. Of course, when it came to international and military affairs the vote had little upside. All the parties with a chance of winning seats in Parliament promote a corporate, military and Washington-centred foreign policy. But a Conservative victory would have made things worse. At least... Continue Reading →
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