Canadian Author and Activist
The recent revocation of the Jewish National Fund’s charitable status may be the most important Palestine solidarity victory in Canadian history. The grassroots win is a boost to the global Stop the JNF campaign and efforts to disrupt Canadian charity assistance to Israel. On August 10 the federal government officially revoked the charitable status... Continue Reading →
Help save the youth of America Help save them from themselves Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys And the Californian girls - Billy Bragg The Jewish National Fund losing its charitable should be celebrated by opponents of racism and colonialism as well as fiscal conservatives, Canadian nationalists and opponents of genocide. Even child welfare... Continue Reading →
“Taxpayer-subsidized charitable donations may well be Canada’s most important contribution to Palestinian dispossession”, begins a parliamentary petition drawing attention to an underappreciated phenomenon. Registered Canadian charities send over a quarter billion dollars a year to projects in Israel. Since the federal government introduced deductions for charities in 1967 around $6 billion in subsidized donations have... Continue Reading →
Charities that promote racism against Palestinians, illegal West Bank settlements, the armed forces of another country and racial/religious purity in Israel are subsidized by Canadian taxpayers. Incredibly, people of conscience are being forced to launch legal complaints with the Canada Revenue Agency to end these subsidies that violate their policies. There are as many as... Continue Reading →
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 →
Should a social democratic party’s spokesperson on foreign affairs address the Israel lobby’s top annual event and legitimize an explicitly racist institution? These are questions those currently vying for leadership of Canada’s New Democratic Party must be pressed to answer. According to the Canadian Parliament’s recently released disclosure of members’ sponsored travel, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee... Continue Reading →
What do you call an organization that teaches children an exclusive religious or ethnic nationalism and promotes war and other forms of violence to get its way? Many people would say an extremist group or a right-wing cult. Many people would think we were talking about something like the Ku Klux Klan. But while the KKK... Continue Reading →
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