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What is clear to observers of the present genocide taking place in Gaza is this: the Warsaw Ghetto of 1940 where more than 80, 000 Jews (among 380, 000 Jews sealed within the Ghetto by the Nazis) died of starvation and overcrowding is now the Gaza Ghetto where more than...
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...
Since the very idea of Chabad ethnocentric racism will be met with disdain and dismay, I’ve quoted much detailed, self-incriminating testimony from Chabad leadership. I add a theoretical tool that simultaneously structures my accusation — it isn’t a rant — and helps explain why Chabad’s racism doesn’t jump out at...
Necropolitics create “deathworlds” where there are “new and unique forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjected to living conditions that confer upon them the status of the living dead”. In those deathworlds the killing of others, and the destruction of their habitat through epic military capabilities whose...
Canada has been operating as an apologist state for “Israel”, entertaining Zionist demands to overlook glaring war crimes and reinforce a brutal, illegal and unequivocally unjust pro-occupation status-quo.
According to amendments submitted to Egyptian and Qatari mediators earlier this week, Hamas demanded an end to the debilitating 17-year-long siege on Gaza which would allow the free movement of people and goods into the territory. According to other amendments, Hamas demanded that Israeli forces fully withdraw from the entire Gaza Strip in the first...
Feiglin writes that the Israeli army must “designate certain open areas on the Sinai border, adjacent to the sea, in which the civilian population will be concentrated, far from the built-up areas that are used for launches and tunneling. In these areas, tent encampments will be established, until relevant emigration...
The reference to the censure of Yves Michaud, the use of antisemitism as a weapon, the refusal of François Legault to excuse the defamatory nature of the charges made against Yves Michaud in the National Assembly bring us to the continued use of antisemitism as a weapon and the continued...
But the most important lesson from the vampire cartoon affair is that self-described leftist MPs who echoed the Israel lobby’s condemnations of a cartoon also have failed to attend protests against Canada’s contribution to an incredible injustice in Palestine. That is not simply a coincidence. It reflects a fundamental concession...