– Jim Miles is a Canadian educator and a regular contributor/columnist of opinion pieces and book reviews to Palestine Chronicles. His interest in this topic stems originally from an environmental perspective, which encompasses the militarization and economic subjugation of the global community and its commodification by corporate governance and by the American government.
(Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation. Tony Greenstein. 2022.) The current Israeli government promotes the idea that it speaks for the Jewish people of the world. […]
(The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People. Walter Russell Mead. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2022.) In today’s world, a clear understanding of the relationship between […]
(The Hundred Year War on Palestine – A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Rashid Khalidi. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2020.) With the writing of “The Hundred Year War on […]
(Advocating for Palestine in Canada – Histories, Movements, Actions. Ed.: Emily Wills, Jeremy Wildeman, Michael Beuckert, Nadia Abu-Zahra. Fernwood Publishing, Halifax/Winnipeg, 2022.) Different groups advocate for Palestine from a variety of perspectives while developing several […]
(‘Stand on Guard for Whom?’: A People’s History of the Canadian Military, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 2021) For a short while, at least as announced by the mainstream media, Canada found itself described as a […]
Words are important. Using the word ‘rampant’ in the title gives the real image of racism: not some narrow right-wing ethos that surfaces occasionally into violence, but something that is “violent or extravagant in action […]
(Giving up is not an option: Memoirs of a Palestinian American. Hani Q. Khoury. Amazon, 2021.) In an interesting short work, Giving up is not an option – Memoirs of a Palestinian American, Hani Khoury […]
(Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire. Ed. Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, Michael Merryman Lotze. Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2022.) The actual history of Gaza can be readily researched – the dates, the actions, the […]
Michael Lynk is the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied after the 1967 nakba. He is an Associate Professor of Law at Western University in London, Ontario, where […]
(The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. Robert Fisk. Fourth Estate – HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2005.) Robert Fisk (1946-2020) was the penultimate war reporter for the second half of the Twentieth […]
(Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim. Richard Falk. Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA. 2021) Writing an autobiography after experiencing the greater part of a century as a public intellectual has resulted in Richard Falk’s […]
(Giants: The Global Power Elite. Peter Phillips. Seven Stories Press, New York, 2018.) Abby Martin’s interview with Peter Phillips was the instigator for reading Peter Phililips’ now slightly outdated but highly valuable work, “Giants – […]
A recent seminar from the group “Visualizing Palestine” served to present four graphic representations of environmental problems within Israel/Palestine. The graphics are self-explanatory and need no review here – they are after all graphic, and […]
The American Trap: My Battle to Expose America’s Secret Economic War Against the Rest of the World. Frédéric Pierucci (with Mathieu Aron). Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2020. It becomes more clear with more and more […]
The US Summit for Democracy has come and gone without too much fuss. It was a strange little show with the leader of the so called ‘free world’ – being those “democratic” countries that for […]
(International Brigade Against Apartheid. Ed. Ronnie Kasrils. (With Muff Andersson and Oscar Marleyn). Jacana Media, Auckland Park, South Africa. 2021.) When reviewing a book already given high testament by the likes of Richard Falk, Ilan […]
(Contested Lands: A History of the Middle East since the First World War. T. G. Fraser. Haus Publishing, London, 2021.) It is a daunting task to write a history of any region over a period […]
Last week (2021-11-04), Independent Jewish Voices (IJV – Canada) presented a webinar titled “From IDF to IJV”, telling the story of three Jewish members who were former Israeli Defence Force (IDF) participants, but over the […]
Election Non-Event Canada’s recent election proved mostly that Canadians are more or less set within their provincial agendas. The ruling Liberals gained three seats, the Conservatives stayed the same, the Bloc Québecois gained two, the […]
Twenty years and more ago climate talk concerned long-term global warming effects not really occurring until the mid-twenty-first century at earliest with most problems occurring toward the end of the century. I remember thinking I […]
Obdurate A word can have strong meanings associated with it, and depending on its use, can be interpreted from different perspectives. Recently I heard a citation from Michael Ignatieff, Canada’s contribution to faux liberal thought, […]
(Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick. The New Press, New York. 2021.) “Except for Palestine” is a remarkable little book. Within it, the authors Hill and Plitnick […]
(In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power. Alfred W. McCoy. Haymarket Books, Chicago. 2017) Reading “In the Shadows of the American Century” is a bit of an […]
(Lawrence in Arabia – War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Scott Anderson. Anchor Books, Random House LLC, New York, 2013) Every very seldom often a book comes along that […]
(After the Apocalypse – America’s Role in a World Transformed. Andrew Bacevich. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company. New York. 2021.) The contemporary apocalypse as seen by Andrew Bacevich in his latest book, “After the […]
After the most recent Gaza war, I was asked to make a presentation to a local service club concerning events in Israel and the Middle East. The presentation started with an introduction of the current […]
(From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia. Michael McFaul. Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2018/2019) “From Cold War to Hot Peace” is a difficult book to discuss. There is much […]
(Goliath: The 100-year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy. Matt Stoler. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2019.) Economic history is not a truly scintillating read. However, to understand how our society is arranged economically as […]
(War: How Conflict Shaped Us. Margaret MacMillan. Random House, New York. 2020.) I almost did not finish reading “War: How Conflict Shaped Us”. It is not worth reading, but I worked through it anyway. Which […]
On June 13, 2021, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put out a statement welcoming the new Israeli government and outlining Canada’s support for all things Israeli. The full statement is available on the government website […]
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