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‘A Regime of Jewish Supremacy’: Time to Use Words of Israel’s B’Tselem

January 27, 2023

The foreign affairs critic of Canada’s social democratic NDP, Heather McPherson, recently published a statement critical of the aggressively racist new Israeli government. It decried “rising anti-Semitism” but ignored Jewish supremacy. But this is how B’Tselem described […]

Dear Editor, Writing ‘Palestinians Don’t Exist’ is Supporting Genocide

December 31, 2022

The double standard is startling. A publisher whose newspaper is accused of making a questionable link to a horrific 80-year-old crime must be denounced by everyone who attended a large event, but few react to […]

Palestinian Voices are Still Presumed Guilty in Canada

December 26, 2022

The recent article by Yves Engler, published by The Palestine Chronicle, resonates with me. It reminds me that many in the Canadian establishment not only do not care about Palestinian justice. They will go out […]

Protesting ‘Violent Settler Colonialist’ Regavim is Not Antisemitic

December 23, 2022

Has the extreme right gone mainstream in Canada’s pro-Israel community? A number of prominent figures in Toronto’s Jewish establishment have rallied to support a “settler colonial NGO” set up by a racist homophobe. In so […]

Promoting Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Abroad: Regavim in Toronto

December 19, 2022

Recently I attended an unsettling talk in Toronto, entitled “Bedouistan: How did we get here – and how do we get out???” It was delivered by Naomi Linder Kahn, one of the directors of Regavim. […]

Israeli Apartheid Defenders in Canada Attack Green Leader May

December 10, 2022

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs’ recent attack against Elizabeth May is farcical. Canada’s leading mouthpiece for Israel criticized the Green Party leader for saying she takes her direction from the representative of the […]

Do Not Apologize: Being Pro-Palestinian is Not a Crime

November 26, 2022

This week Joel Harden, a Canadian member of Ontario’s provincial parliament, made this unnecessary apology: “I would like to apologize unreservedly to the Jewish community for comments I made during an interview with the Ottawa […]

Xi vs Trudeau: How China is Rewriting History with the Colonial West

November 25, 2022

Though brief, the exchange between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia on November 16 has become a social media sensation. Xi, assertive […]

PC Contributor Yves Engler: How I Was Assaulted, Again, for Disrupting Anti-Palestinian Event (VIDEO)

November 16, 2022

On Sunday, Canadian activist Bill Sloan and I interrupted a Technion Canada fundraiser to challenge its support of the Israeli military and the role of government-subsidized charities in promoting Israeli apartheid. After entering the room, […]

The Unnecessary Challenges of Being Pro-Palestinian in a Society That is Not

November 12, 2022

It’s hard to be a pro-Palestinian voice. I want to avoid saying “a pro-Palestinian activist” as that is too honorific a title. So I’ll stick to a “pro-Palestinian voice”, which I’m humbly more comfortable with […]

How I Was Assaulted and Illegally Detained for Interrupting Anti-Palestinian Speaker (VIDEO)

November 11, 2022

On Monday, I registered for a public talk with anti-Palestinian activist Hillel Neuer in Montreal, Canada. After receiving my electronic confirmation, I headed to the venue with the intention of challenging his anti-Palestinian racism. A […]

Children are Entitled to the Truth: Teaching Young People about Palestine in Canadian Schools and Beyond

November 1, 2022

I was at a Toronto mall Saturday. I help coordinate a weekly talent show there. After one of the talented singers, a girl about 10 years old, performed the MC asked her to stay on […]

Action Please: Media Must Cover Illegal Military Recruitment Story

October 28, 2022

Violating the law by directly assisting a military enforcing apartheid seems of little interest to English Canada’s major media unless they can celebrate it. Recently a Justice of the Peace accepted there was sufficient evidence to bring […]

Canadian Charities Must Not Be Allowed to Promote Anti-Palestinian Racism

October 10, 2022

I recently returned to the website of the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation (CAEF), which I first wrote about here. On its homepage, I immediately saw more anti-Palestinian racism and disinformation. It was hard to miss, […]

The Devil is a Liar: Keeping Anti-Palestinian Racism away from Education

October 3, 2022

Last May I was at a counterdemonstration to the annual Walk With Israel event in Toronto. The demonstration, comprised of pro-Palestinian protestors, walked to a field where part of the event was happening. It was […]

Recruiter of ‘Volunteers’ for Israeli Military to Face Charges in Canada

September 29, 2022

In a sign of the brazenness of Israel’s supporters, the lead organ of Canada’s Jewish community has long received funds from and supported an organization whose raison d’être likely breaches Canadian law. But a recent legal […]

Confronting Israeli Apartheid, Zionist Propaganda in Montreal

September 17, 2022

Montréal is a bastion of Israeli nationalist ideology. People of conscience must disrupt their activities, confronting the reality of Palestinian dispossession and apartheid. At the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, three weeks ago, […]

Hate in Disguise: the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation is about Anti-Palestinian Racism

September 5, 2022

A Toronto-based group, the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation (CAEF), is co-organizing an event for this November. It’s called “RISE UP Ottawa!” According to its GoFundMe page, the event is about promoting education around human rights […]

McGill-Tel Aviv University Partnership: Why I Interrupted Major Funding Announcement

September 2, 2022

On Wednesday, August 31, 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 […]

A Message to Canadian Leaders: There’s No Room for Vanity in the Struggle for Palestinian Justice

August 30, 2022

Recently two Canadian Members of Parliament (MP), Ya’ara Saks and Anthony Housefather expressed their strong disapproval of Robin Wettlaufer, Representative of Canada to the Palestinian Authority. Having had a pleasant meeting with him, she described […]

Condemn Latest Israeli Attack on Gaza, Canadian Complicity

August 6, 2022

Israel has attacked Gaza again and it is time Canadians understood their country’s contribution to the brutal treatment of those living in the 360 square kilometer strip of land.  On August 5, Israel killed at least […]

B’nai Brith’s Lawsuit Attacks Campus Free Speech, Student Democracy

August 1, 2022

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 […]

The Canadian Government Must Recognize that Israel Demonizes Itself

July 29, 2022

The Canadian government recently published a report entitled, “The Rise of Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism in Canada.” It has several important and necessary recommendations. But this one is troubling: “The Government of Canada thoroughly reject […]

Advocating for Palestine in Canada: Histories, Movements, Actions – Book Review

July 14, 2022

(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 […]

Zionist Double Standard: Why Public Supporters of Israel Should Expect to Be Criticized

June 18, 2022

Liberal MP Ya’ara Saks is claiming to have been the victim of “hate” when young people yelled, “stop supporting the killing of Palestinians”. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center […]

‘Stand on Guard for Whom?’: A People’s History of the Canadian Military – Book Review

June 13, 2022

(‘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 […]

Canada: NDP on the Right Track, but More to Be Done

June 5, 2022

Over the past year, the New Democratic Party’s Palestine policy has dramatically improved. It could portend a decisive break from the Canadian social democratic party’s anti-Palestinian history.  Recently, NDP foreign affairs critic Heather McPherson sent […]

Rampant Racism: on Shireen, Mass Murder and White Racism

May 22, 2022

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 […]

Crazed Israel Defenders Slander Critics, Ignore the Crime

May 20, 2022

If soldiers of some country — say Russia, Canada, or USA — are suspected of killing a journalist covering a story, reasonable people around the world rightly express outrage at the country responsible, even if […]

The Nakba Doesn’t Disappear Down Under

May 20, 2022

New Zealand reminds me of Canada. And I regret I don’t mean that as a compliment. The two countries have a dearth of Palestinian voices in mainstream media. I started thinking more of this unadmirable […]

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