Canadian Author and Activist
Most Palestine supporters in Canada are racist. They refuse to name Israel’s form of supremacism and some will even label you antisemitic for doing so. “A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This Is Apartheid”, was the title of a 2021 report published by liberal Jewish Israeli human rights... Continue Reading →
Lori Idlout joining Mark Carney’s Liberals shines a spotlight on the NDP’s rightist, anti-activist orientation. On Tuesday Nunavut MP Idlout joined one of the most right-wing Liberal governments in generations. Considering Carney’s politics, it’s revealing that two elected NDP representatives have joined his team in short order. A month ago, Ontario NDP MPP and deputy... Continue Reading →
There’s a glaring double standard on the self-proclaimed left. On the one hand, no one who proudly proclaimed themselves “racist” would be described as progressive; but on the other hand, some who call themselves Zionists are designated exactly that. One can still be viewed as a progressive liberal while pledging allegiance to a lawless genocidal... 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 →
*Does anyone seriously believe that ethnicity/religion/ideology has no bearing on media coverage of Palestine? And why would a leftist seek to excuse a community (broadly) promoting a holocaust? At a recent forum on Palestine I spoke alongside the managing editor of The Breach, Martin Lukacs, about media bias. In my opening remarks, I discussed the... Continue Reading →
“MPs Anthony Housefather and Michael Levitt are more devoted to apartheid Israel than to their own prime minister and colleagues in the Liberal caucus” Dimitri Lascaris, 2018 The above tweet was criticized by all the major federal party leaders even though few could argue with it today. After the Centre for Israel and Jewish... Continue Reading →
Left media should explore a wide range of critical ideas. But it should try to avoid ‘punching down’ too often. Recently new left outlet The Breach published a long interview with Columbia University PhD student Barnaby Raine “on the resurgence of ‘tankie’ and ‘campist’ politics” titled “Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?” It... Continue Reading →
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