Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi, Justice For All Canada and the National Council of Canadian Muslims should ask themselves why prominent anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian Canadians are central players in the Uyghur cause. Their involvement highlights how Canadians criticizing China’s treatment of Muslims serves the US empire. Recently, the Globe and Mail reported on the role anti-Muslim... Continue Reading →
Suing a rabbi doesn’t look good for group that ‘defends’ Jews
B’nai Brith is suing a rabbi for defamation. In “B’nai Brith Launches Legal Action Against anti-Israel Activist David Mivasair” the group claimed it was suing because he described their organization as “racist”, “anti-Palestinian hate group”, “agent of a foreign power” and “small band of extremists enabled by wealthy racists.” In the lawsuit filed in Ontario... Continue Reading →
Roger Waters is a principled rock star to be emulated not criticized
The Toronto Star’s recent attacks against Roger Waters are shameful. The founder of Pink Floyd is a rare megastar who uses his fame and talents to challenge injustices, including pro-empire and corporate Canadian foreign policy. In recent days Canada’s most liberal English language paper has published two columns attacking Waters headlined, “Shame on those who... Continue Reading →
McGill-Tel Aviv University partnership announcement interrupted
Yesterday I interrupted a major funding announcement at McGill to ask the head of the university about her suppression of Palestine solidarity. As she spoke from the Faculty Club’s stage I asked Principal Suzanne Fortier, “Do McGill students have the right to oppose the killing of Palestinian children? Do they have the right to... Continue Reading →
US student, Israel lobby groups behind McGill lawsuit
What to do if you are unable to convince your peers to vote for apartheid? Sue them. Two weeks ago Jonah Fried launched a lawsuit against the Students Society of McGill University (SSMU), Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) and McGill’s administration. He is alleging that they are responsible for discrimination and harassment. Leading Canadian... Continue Reading →
B’nai Brith’s lawsuit attacks campus free speech, student democracy
On Wednesday B’nai Brith announced a lawsuit against McGill University, Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) and student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). The apartheid lobby group is angry that undergraduate students were asked to vote in March on whether they supported Palestinian rights. Their press release openly states their objective is to... Continue Reading →
End the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement
On Sunday a demonstration is planned in Montréal against the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA). Under the banner “Against Israel’s annexation of the Jordan Valley. No to the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement!”, the march is seeking to politicize CIFTA amidst Israel’s plan to formally annex parts of the West Bank. The march... Continue Reading →
Israel lobby’s racist attacks against Left-wing Toronto restaurant
The Israel lobby has waged a remarkably successful campaign to bankrupt a small left-wing Toronto restaurant. Despite claiming to fight bigotry, it is the Israeli nationalists who have committed the surest racism and arguably taken the most anti-Jewish positions. In response to pressure from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), B’nai B’rith,... Continue Reading →
Jewish Defence League attacks pro-Palestine restaurant
Why the official silence about Toronto’s most powerful extreme right group? Is it because we live in a political culture where Palestinian lives don’t matter? Recently an individual with the Jewish Defence League (JDL) was photographed defacing a pro-Palestinian storefront with supremacist graffiti in broad daylight. Nothing has happened to them but the anti-racist... Continue Reading →
Canada’s Security Council defeat is a win for Palestine
Canada’s defeat in its bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council is a major victory for Palestinian solidarity. It also puts Canada’s Israel lobby on the defensive. Israeli politicians and commentators have begun to publicly bemoan the loss. Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, told the Jerusalem Post, “we are disappointed... Continue Reading →
Palestinian solidarity unsettles Canadian diplomats
The Palestinian solidarity movement is unsettling Canada’s diplomatic apparatus. In the final week of their multi-year campaign for a seat on the United Nations Security Council they’ve been forced to respond to a strong, well-documented, campaign in defence of Palestinian rights. Yesterday, Canada's Permanent Representative to the UN, Marc-André Blanchard, delivered a letter to all... Continue Reading →
Israel lobby in Canada
The Trudeau government has been campaigning aggressively for a seat on the Security Council, but its bid to win a place on the UN’s most powerful decision-making body will be hampered by Canada’s decidedly anti-Palestinian voting record. Despite claiming to support the “international rules based order”, the Trudeau government has voted against more than 50... Continue Reading →
Real hate taught inside Toronto school, not scrawled outside
Supporters of a private Toronto school that publicly promotes racism against Palestinians, flies an Israeli flag and then complains of “anti-Semitism” when pro-Palestinian graffiti is scrawled on its walls should give their heads a shake. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center and B’nai Brith labeled messages scrawled on Leo... Continue Reading →
Does Ford Nation include white nationalists, pro-Israel groups?
Pro-Israel politics make for strange bedfellows. B’nai Brith (BB) and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) must be concerned about the furor over Doug Ford’s ties to fringe Toronto mayoral candidate Faith Goldy. Last month the prominent white supremacist participated in a BB support rally and the two pro-Israel groups smeared Dimitri Lascaris... Continue Reading →
Pro-Palestinian campaigner smeared by Canadian politicians
On Thursday lawyer Dimitri Lascaris called on two Liberal MPs to denounce death threats made by B’nai B’rith supporters against a number of other Liberal MPs and the Prime Minister. But instead of condemning those who called for racialized politicians to face the “guillotine” or “stoning”, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and... Continue Reading →
Doug Ford, Israel, the ‘Jewish vote’ and Palestinian solidarity
How will the election of Doug Ford as premier of Ontario effect the pro-Palestinian movement? In one of his first post-election moves Ford announced that he would seek to ban an annual Palestinian solidarity event. After the recent Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day protest brought over 500 people out in Toronto, Ford tweeted, "our government will... Continue Reading →
Flying Israeli flag in high school causes hatred and division
Should “Jewish Heritage Month” be used as a cover for Israeli nationalism and to suppress Palestinian protest? A recent incident at a Toronto high school demonstrates the depravity of the pro-Israel lobby. It also illustrates their use of Canadian cultural and “diversity” initiatives to promote a country that declares itself to be the exact opposite... Continue Reading →
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