Conscience precluding participation in the same kind of violence that had been inflicted on him. Rezeq Faraj was personally committed to pacifism as a matter of principle. Nevertheless, while condemning acts of violence directed against civilians, he viewed acts of armed resistance against an occupying military power as legitimate.

There is an unspoken and unwritten message which is understood here and that is “Arabs and Muslims are something less than human.” Israel (and the West via its clear complicity in the genocide in Gaza) is that bastion of civilization meant to “civilize the Arab-Muslim untermenschen, apparently via genocide, for...

The “Lobby” should remember the following: when you call those who defend human rights and decry war crimes “antisemites,” you make “antisemitism,” such as you define it, a moral imperative! When everyone is an antisemite, then there are no more antisemites! It is, indeed, a dangerous game to play.

PAJU condems Concordia University’s complicity in the Israeli war against the Palestinians PAJU would like to express our solidarity to the Palestinian students and their supporters at Concordia University that […]

Over the years of Israel’s blockade of the enclave, Hamas fighters created a cobweb of tunnels dug under the Gaza Strip. For obvious military reasons, their very existence was a closely guarded Palestinian military secret and even when their presence could no longer be denied, only the vaguest information was...

Shortly after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named Chrystia Freeland to the portfolio of Minister for Foreign Affairs, the U.S. State Department triumphantly crowed, by way of a now declassified memorandum, that Canada had adopted an ‘America first foreign policy’. The memo can be viewed on the U.S. State department web...

Citibank on Thursday lowered its forecast for Israel’s economy in 2023 and 2024, citing a drop in investments due to fears over the government’s judicial overhaul and other policy decisions. In a new report, the US bank reduced its 2023 growth projection for Israel from 3.3% to 3.1%, while the...

A Moroccan citizen was sentenced to five years in prison over Facebook posts criticizing the Moroccan monarchy for its normalization of ties with Israel on Monday, 31 July, reported The Guardian. “48-year-old Said Boukioud was found guilty of posting on Facebook, denouncing the normalization of the occupation in a manner that could be...

An Israeli court has ordered the evacuation of some 550 residents of an unrecognized Bedouin village in southern Israel, to build a new neighborhood for the city of Dimona.  The Be’er Sheva Magistrate’s Court accepted the Israel Land Authority’s claims earlier this week, requiring the residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Ras Jrabah to...