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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

McGill University Administration Amps up Anti-Palestinian Campaign

May 7, 2022

The McGill administration and Israel lobby have waged a multiyear campaign against student democracy and Palestinian solidarity and recently threatened the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) financial arrangement after students voted overwhelmingly for the […]

Liberal Budget Funds Apologists for Israeli Crimes

April 21, 2022

As more and more Canadians, including university students across the country, oppose Israel’s apartheid policies, the Liberals devoted millions of dollars in the recent federal budget to strengthen anti-Palestinian forces. They put up $5.6 million […]

Time to End Canadian Taxpayer Subsidies for Israeli Apartheid

February 11, 2022

Amnesty International’s recent conclusion that Israel is committing “the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” should galvanize opposition to Canada’s most significant form of support for the “apartheid” state. Some 200 registered Canadian charities raise over a quarter billion […]

Time to Revoke Charitable Status from Canadian Group Funding Israeli Military

January 16, 2022

The Canadian Zionist Cultural Association (CZCA) was caught supporting a foreign military in violation of charity law. But it’s unclear if the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) will apply its rules to the Israel focused registered […]

Let Us Count the Ways Canada Supports Israel’s Crimes

December 30, 2021

One of the most disingenuous arguments made by Canadian apologists for Israeli crimes is that it is irrelevant what transpires here. If they genuinely believed this why seek to squash support for Palestinians? In fact, […]

Yes Ms. Diplomat, Canada Does Arm and Fund Israel

December 19, 2021

Did Canada’s representative to the Palestinian Authority lie or was she simply ignorant of important facts? On Wednesday Robin Wettlaufer criticized Electronic Intifada editor Ali Abunimah for tweeting that Canada “arms and funds the apartheid […]

Toronto District Schools: It is Time to Challenge Israel’s Lobby Racism

November 19, 2021

Executive officer at the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (Toronto) Jason Kunin recently posted to Facebook: “It seems that as a result of Desmond Cole’s unscripted calls of ‘Free Palestine’ during a TDSB [Toronto District […]

Canadian Taxpayer-Subsidized ‘Charities’ Push Israeli University-Military Ties

November 9, 2021

Researching registered charities is a window into the pathology of Canadian Zionism. The number, variety and sums raised by taxpayer-subsidized groups focused on Israel is remarkable. Does a country with a GDP per capita equal to […]

The ‘Cancel Culture’ of Israel Lobby in Canada

October 22, 2021

The Israel lobby regularly torments people and seeks to undermine their ability to make a living. While increasing numbers of Canadians are wise to their slander campaigns, some progressives still end up aligning with the […]

Legal Complaint Launched against Israeli-Canadian Charity

July 31, 2021

A request to revoke the Canadian Zionist Cultural Association’s charitable status is an important step towards lessening Canadian complicity in Palestinian dispossession. Registered Canadian charities provide significant support to Israel and drawing attention to the […]

Canadian Anti-Semitism Summit Seeks to Deflect Criticism of Israeli Apartheid

June 16, 2021

Last week the Trudeau government announced it would hold an emergency National Summit on Anti-Semitism. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and B’nai B’rith (BB) were delighted as they’ve campaigned for the summit […]

The Innumerable Ways Canada Supports Israeli Apartheid

May 15, 2021

At the start of the year Israel’s leading human rights group B’Tselem released “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid”. Two weeks ago Human Rights Watch published a long […]

Campaign to Oppose Israeli Military Recruitment in Canada Receives Boost

April 23, 2021

The campaign to oppose illegal Israeli military recruitment in Canada has received a significant boost. A parliamentary petition calling for an investigation into IDF recruitment has quickly surpassed the number of signatures required to be presented in […]

NDP Motion Delivers Victory for Palestinian Rights, Grassroots Democracy in Canada

April 13, 2021

On Saturday New Democratic Party members delivered a victory for Palestinian rights and a blow to the Israel lobby in Canada. Over 80% of convention delegates voted for a resolution calling for “Ending all trade […]

Why Can’t Canadian Social Democratic Leader Jagmeet Singh Say ‘Palestine’

April 6, 2021

On CBC’s The House on Saturday Jagmeet Singh was asked about resolutions submitted to next week’s NDP convention regarding “Canada’s relationship to Israel and the Palestinian territory”. Instead of responding to the question, the NDP leader mentioned “anti-Semitism” four times. […]

Palestine Solidarity Delivers Blow to JNF Colonialism

March 18, 2021

Score a small, but symbolically significant, victory for pro-Palestinian and anti-racist forces. The Jewish National Fund of Canada has been forced to rebrand and distance itself from its Israeli parent organization. Under pressure from Independent […]

Writer: Yves Engler