Some self-described leftists are seeking to cancel events calling for peace. In their hostility to criticism of Canadian foreign policy, they even blamed a NATO critic for anti-queer violence. On June 19 Dimitri Lascaris began a cross country speaking tour on “Making Peace With Russia, One Handshake At A Time.” A cabal of US and Canadian military... Continue Reading →
Defend her, but Elghawaby is no principled progressive
The politicians and media in Québec are widely unhappy about Amira Elghawaby’s appointment as the federal government’s representative to combat Islamophobia. Progressives should also be critical of Elghawaby, but for different reasons. Last week the Liberals appointed Elghawaby Canada’s first ever special representative on combating Islamophobia. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre immediately opposed her appointment. Concurrently... Continue Reading →
Farber’s ‘anti-hate’ must include Palestinians
Three weeks after smearing antiracist, social justice, protesters Bernie Farber backed away from his statement. The chair of Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) erased his tweet and made a partial mea culpa. Farber labeled a December 17 rally in front of an event put on by Israel settler colonial NGO Regavim “an antisemitic act no matter... Continue Reading →
Time to acknowledge hateful leader of “anti-hate” group
What do you call an “antiracist” group led by an open ethnic/religious supremacist? Last year Israeli human rights group B’tselem published “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid”. The landmark report provides mainstream Jewish Israeli endorsement of what’s long been clear to Palestinians and the... Continue Reading →
‘Anti-racist’ but pro-apartheid and government funded
Should anti-racists collaborate with leading promoters of apartheid? An absurd question? Unfortunately, not. Recently Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) researchers Dan Collen and Étienne Quintal helped United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Toronto create Hatepedia. Collen and Quintal also work for the UJA-run Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre. But UJA organizes Canada’s largest annual apartheid celebration... Continue Reading →
Trudeau equates far left with racist right to defend Israel
The far right and far left are equally racist, Canada’s Liberal prime minister said last week. Mimicking Donald Trump’s “fine people” on both sides statement after white supremacists rampaged in Charlottesville in 2017, Justin Trudeau bemoaned “a rise in intolerance” in Canada and elsewhere. “We see the organizations of extremist groups on the far right... Continue Reading →
Anti-racist groups silent on JNF
Parliament recently heard a petition criticizing the only explicitly racist registered Canadian charity. Oddly, this important event occurred without help from self-declared antiracist organizations. Earlier this year Independent Jewish Voices launched a Parliamentary E-Petition that begins by noting that the Jewish National Fund “engages in discriminatory practices as its landholdings are chartered for exclusively Jewish... Continue Reading →
Anti-fascist except when they support Israel
Canadian extreme right hate groups have figured out a way to gain mainstream acceptance: Support Israel. While most of the world voted to label Zionism a form of racism in 1975, many self-declared antiracists in Canada today refuse to challenge far right extremists if they act in service of that European colonial and Jewish... Continue Reading →
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