Unless you are like the storied Rip Van Winkle, you know it in your bones that there has been a disquieting upsurge of antisemitism in Canada since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war last month. Wars pitting Israel against its Arab enemies always bring antisemites and their cheerleaders out of the woodwork. The latest conflagration […]
The fallout from Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the fifth and most serious one in fifteen years, has spilled into university campuses in the United States. The discord, splintered with antisemitic shards, has spawned shouting matches, ignited threats of violence between students, and resulted in arrests. The tension coincides with a rising […]
Surprise, surprise! Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian member of the U.S. Congress, hates Israel with a passion. What else is new on this crazy planet? Yesterday, as the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip escalated, she was censured by the House of Representatives for “promoting false narratives” and “calling for the destruction of the state […]
As they stormed through kibbutzim and towns in southern Israel on that horrendous day on October 7, Hamas terrorists/pogromists and a ragtag assortment of Palestinian civilians kidnapped 242 Israelis and foreigners, dragging them into the depths of the Gaza Strip as hostages. Apart from adults, they grabbed boys, girls and even babies. Never in its […]
I learned about it on the radio on the morning of November 4. Palestinian protesters in Toronto were planning to hold a rally in front of the U.S. consulate on University Avenue, one of the city’s main thoroughfares, on that Saturday afternoon. Advertised as the largest demonstration of its kind in Toronto since the October […]
Good riddance to Craig Mokhiber! And shame on Cori Bush! These two craven individuals have revealed themselves as contemptible Hamas apologists. Mokhiber, the New York director of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, resigned on October 31 in protest over the current Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. In his […]
Since Hamas’ genocidal massacre of 1,400 Israelis and foreigners in southern Israel on October 7, and Israel’s fierce counter-attack in the Gaza Strip, some American university professors have come out in fulsome praise of the surprise attack, extolling murder, rape and plunder. This is an astonishing, grave and totally unacceptable development that hardly augurs well […]
As the Gaza Strip war intensifies, threatening to spill over into Lebanon due to Hezbollah’s naked aggression along the Lebanese border, the Palestinians and their supporters have been scrambling to present plausible arguments that place Hamas and the Palestinian national movement in the best positive light. Their latest effort to buff up their image in […]
The current war in and around the Gaza Strip has brought out morally repugnant reactions from Palestinian students, their fellow travellers and academics on university campuses across Canada and the United States. In the wake of Hamas’ murderous rampage in southern Israel on October 7, which has so far claimed the lives of some 1,400 […]
At this grave moment in Israel’s history, when its very existence as a sovereign nation is being frontally challenged by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, the former president of the United States committed an egregious error. Donald Trump, still the frontrunner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, foolishly chose to air personal grievances instead of coming […]