Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist at Columbia University in New York City, has caused a furor and ignited a controversy. His case has triggered an impassioned debate about the limits of free speech and the boundaries of political activism. A 30-year-old Algerian national, a permanent resident of the United States, and a recent graduate of […]
An exhibition on Auschwitz-Birkenau has landed at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto for an extended stay. Created by Musealia, co-produced by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland, and developed by an international panel of curators and historians, Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away is one of the most comprehensive exhibitions ever presented […]
President Donald Trump has unwisely declared economic warfare on Canada. In doing so, he is recklessly upending and potentially ruining the United States’ historically cordial and mutually profitable relationship with its closest neighbor and ally. Trump’s destabilizing policy is causing volatility, chaos, pain, puzzlement and uncertainty in both countries. True to his threats, he has […]
Donald Trump seems to have abandoned Ukraine, a U.S. ally, in pursuit of his “America First” policy and sided unequivocally with Russia, one of America’s adversaries. It is a jaw-dropping moment. Six weeks after his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States, Trump has revealed his true colors as a self-centred, disruptive and […]
It goes without saying that the president of a university student union should be a measured and circumspect person, not a polarizing figure who angers and alienates students, besmirches the university’s image, and generates heated controversy. Somar Abuaziza, the newly installed president of the York Federation of Students (YFS) at York University in Toronto, has […]
A massive political earthquake jolted Germany as the final results of its federal election on February 23 poured in. The tremors are still being felt. For the first time since the Nazi era, that 12-year interregnum during which Germany persecuted its Jewish minority and launched a genocidal murder campaign on a European scale, the unthinkable […]
Donald Trump, in his second four-year term as president, is upending the United States’ alliance with Ukraine in favor of a rapprochement with Ukraine’s mortal enemy, Russia. Some might say he is ruthlessly and shamelessly abandoning Ukraine in its hour of duress. In recent days, Trump, an admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has blamed […]
The pro-Palestinian protests and encampments that sprung up at American university campuses following the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel and the subsequent Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip were bound to trigger a vigorous backlash. Many Jewish students complained that the shrill anti-Israel rhetoric bordered on or spilled into antisemitism and created a climate […]
A deranged person like Kanye West, the African American rapper and designer who calls himself Ye, should be ignored. But ignoring him is not really an option. Due to his enormous following on social media and his ability to poison impressionable minds, his antisemitic rants on X and Instagram cannot be blithely disregarded. A few […]
Reason prevailed when Donald Trump, on February 3, pressed the pause button and postponed the imposition of hefty U.S. tariffs on Canadian and Mexican exports. Temporarily, at least, he thereby averted a nasty trade war that would be damaging to all three countries and the global economy. Trump, however, slapped a 10 percent tariff on […]