Justin Trudeau has a choice: siding with the morally bankrupt oppressor or with the morally upright oppressed. Between the oppression spearheaded by Netanyahu and the resistance to oppression spearheaded by Palestinian resistance groups (the PLO in the past; today by Hamas), there is no moral equivalency indeed. To claim differently...
In the wake of October 7, scholars of antisemitism, genocide, and Jewish history have warned of the ways that particularly traumatic episodes in Jewish history have been evoked to justify Israel’s onslaught on Gaza and crack down on those who criticize it.
Some Harris voters told me they were following the 1930’s examples of socialists voting liberal to defeat fascists. History may repeat itself to some degree, but any strategy must include an analysis with more subtlety and nuance than that simple formulation reflects. What are the similarities between Trumpism and classic...
More than the lack of humanitarian aid, it was the incessant artillery fire that made Youssef flee the Jabalia refugee camp, much worse, he says, than the air raids. Buildings have been destroyed and there have been no rescuers for several weeks to go and save the victims, he reports....
In Israel minors aged 12 to 14 can be sentenced to prison and held in a facility until they turn 14, at which point Israeli law permits transferring them to jail .In Israel, criminal responsibility starts at age 12, but prison sentences could only be applied from age 14. The...
Israel has historically obstructed political solutions that would bring about a fully sovereign Palestinian state, Yezid Sayigh, an expert on Israel-Palestine and the Middle East for the Carnegie Middle East Center think tank in Beirut, told Al Jazeera.“Israel has assassinated many Palestinian leaders before and it will continue doing that....
Mainstream academia and media still refuse to define the Zionist project as a colonial, or as it is referred to more accurately a settler-colonial project. However, as Israel intensifies the colonisation of Palestine in the next year, that might prod more individuals and institutions to frame the reality in Palestine...
Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli says that Israel has every right to invade and seize southern Lebanon. He also believes neither Syria nor Iran counts as states, and so don’t merit protection for their status as sovereign nations. Chikli was one of several government ministers who recently urged the Israeli...
Liberal MP Wayne Long and his administrative assistant Jeannette Arsenault were captured on video as they publicly intimidated pro-Palestinian protestors accusing them of “terrorism”, and issuing what were clearly racist comments.