In light of the scandalous Birju Dattani affair, one can only hope that the Canadian federal government will not make the same egregious mistake again in its employment practices. Dattani, selected recently as chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, agreed to go on leave last week following a flurry of complaints from the […]
Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York was the first one in the club to fall in a primary election. Representative Cori Bush of Missouri followed him down the path to defeat. In relatively quick succession, two African American members of The Squad, an informal group of left-wing Democratic members of the House of Representatives who […]
At the end of it all, Josh Shapiro was unable overcome a distinct disadvantage in his bid to become Kamala Harris’ running mate in the forthcoming U.S. presidential election. Shapiro thereby fell short of becoming the second Jewish American to be selected for that job. In 2000, Vice President Al Gore chose Joseph Lieberman, a […]
The Norwegian street artist Toddel has created a mural of Anne Frank in the southwestern city of Bergen that is nothing short of revolting. “Death of an Innocent,” as it is blandly called, provocatively portrays the late Dutch Jewish diarist clad in a Palestinian keffiyeh. Toddel has said that his mural is a critique of […]
A multitude of voters, particularly Jews, reacted nervously to the inconclusive outcome of the second round of the parliamentary election in France on July 7. Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, which finished first in last week’s opening round and was forecast to form a majority government before yesterday’s runoff, wound up in third place with […]
Two months after having planted an unauthorized and illegal encampment in the heart of the University of Toronto, Palestinian students and their coterie of supporters reluctantly dismantled it on a cloudy day on July 3 drenched by high humidity. I arrived at King’s College Circle nearly three hours before the encampment there was legally due […]
The first televised candidates’ debate preceeding the next U.S. presidential election in November was a disaster. On June 27, Joe Biden, the oldest president in American history, locked horns with Donald Trump, his Republican predecessor who seeks another four-year term in the White House. Their encounter confirmed widespread fears that neither of them is suitable […]
Justice has been served at last. In a unanimous, long overdue and important decision handed down on June 25, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that the decades-long exemption enabling ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students to evade compulsory military service and receive government subsidies rests on no legal basis, and that the Israeli armed forces are free to draft […]
They were the ordinary heroes who turned the tide of World War II against Nazi Germany. Wading ashore in the surf at Normandy on a grey and gloomy day on June 6, 1944, thousands of Allied troops stormed seemingly impregnable Germany defences. Their mission was to pry loose France from Nazi occupation. More than 4,400 […]
The vociferous anti-Israel protesters who have illegally occupied a considerable expanse of land at the University of Toronto’s King’s College Circle are determined to flout the law come what may. Last week, the university issued trespass notices ordering hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators to pack up their tents and leave their encampment, which is filled with […]