The Green Party in Britain, led by a Jewish ideologue named Zack Polanski, adopted a profoundly anti-Israel resolution at its annual conference in Brighton on October 4, three days before the third anniversary of Hamas’ attack in Israel. The stark resolution minces no words. It denies Israel’s right to exist as a sovereign Jewish state. […]
Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor of New York City, released a comprehensive plan to combat antisemitism on September 29. Amid an upsurge of antisemitic incidents in the Big Apple, he pledged millions of dollars for security and hate-crime prevention programs. A few liberal and progressive Jewish organizations, such as the New York Jewish Agenda, […]
Avram David (Avi) Lewis, the leader of Canada’s left-of-center New Democratic Party, has come to his senses and no longer is holding Jewish Canadians accountable for Israel’s actions. Lewis, an anti-Zionist whose wife Naomi Klein shares his views, caused outrage when, in a social media post on the eve of Yom Kippur, he wrote, “Tonight […]
Rare is the day when Israeli politicians drop their differences and agree on an issue of national importance. Two days ago, they broke the mould when they backed a decision by the Central Elections Committee to disqualify the chairman of the left-wing Balad Party, Sami Abu Shehadeh, from running in the October 27 election. They […]
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor should not be surprised that their controversial documentary, NAZA, has been vociferously condemned by mainstream Israeli leaders. NAZA, which premiered at the recent Venice International Film Festival, claims that Israel loosened its rules of engagement in responding to Hamas’ terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. Israel thereby caused the deaths […]
Until about two years ago, I regarded the United States as a friendly neighbor, a nation whose democratic values were in alignment with that of Canada. In this respect, Canada almost seemed like a carbon copy of America. When I crossed the world’s longest undefended border, I did not feel that I had entered an […]
The current Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, labors under the grand illusion that its controversial settlement policy in the occupied West Bank will have no adverse effect on its bilateral relations with foreign countries. On September 8, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband disabused Israel of its illusion when he lambasted its position […]
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party has entered a stunning new phase in its trajectory toward state and federal power after finishing first in the Saxony-Anhalt election on September 6. Although it did not win an absolute majority, the AfD is close to becoming the first far-right party to govern a German state since the […]
B‘nai Brith Canada for years has sought full access to a report written by historian Alti Rodal for the Commission of Inquiry On War Criminals In Canada. The commission, headed by Jules Deschenes, was charged with investigating allegations that the Canadian government admitted European collaborators who committed crimes against humanity on behalf of Nazi Germany […]
Canada’s public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, got itself into needless trouble on the eve of the 25th anniversary of Al-Qaeda’s terrorist attack in the United States on September 11, 2001. Its senior director of journalistic standards and public trust, Basem Boshra, admitted in a blog post on August 28 that the CBC had caused […]