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A Precedent-Shattering Court Verdict

Justice was served in London, Ontario, on February 22 when Nathaniel Veltman was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 25 years in a case that revolved around pure, unadulterated racism. Veltman, 23, was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder after deliberately ramming his pickup truck into four total strangers out […]

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An Insidious Form Of Hatred

Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism and its former ambassador to Israel, did not mince words. After learning that Leah Goldstein — a Canadian Jewish athlete who had been a professional cyclist — had been disinvited as the keynote speaker at an International Women’s Day event in Peterborough, Ontario, on […]

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An Outrageous Comparison From Brazil’s Blinkered President

Brazilian President Luiz InĂ¡cio Lula da Silva owes the Jewish people and the state of Israel an unreserved apology after likening Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip to Nazi Germany’s diabolical plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Silva’s flippant and blinkered comparison, steeped in appalling ignorance and boundless maliciousness, prompted Israeli Foreign Minister […]

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Aleksei Navalny — A Beacon Of Moral Clarity

Aleksei Navalny, the Russian dissident who died in a Siberian penal colony on February 16 at the age of 47, signed his death warrant when he returned to Russia from Germany after recovering from a botched assassination attempt. A gadfly who was a thorn in the side of Russia’s authoritarian government, he was probably the […]

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Israel’s Rocky Relationship With UNRWA

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency is clearly an organization under sharp scrutiny after Israel presented donor nations with evidence that twelve of its employees participated in Hamas’ deadly attacks against Israel on October 7, and that ten percent of its staff, or 1,200 individuals, are members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad. As a […]

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Israel’s Resettlement Of Gaza Is A Non-Starter

It was a surreal event cooked up by some of the most extreme elements in Israeli politics. At a moment when Israeli forces are battling Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip and negotiations are under way to free the hostages still in Hamas’ captivity, twelve government ministers and fifteen members of the Knesset had nothing […]

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Israel’s Right To Self-Defence Backed By The International Court Of Justice

Israel’s right to self-defence in the face of Hamas’ massacre on October 7 was implicitly recognized by the International Court of Justice in its interim ruling on January 26. Significantly enough, the court’s president, Joan Donoghue, did not call for an immediate ceasefire, which South Africa and its ally, Hamas, had demanded. This is no […]

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Canada’s Position On Genocide In Gaza Is Unclear

As Israel’s ambassador to Canada said recently, the Canadian government should finally clarify its position on South Africa’s baseless allegation that Israel committed genocide during its air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. Since October 8, the day after Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 civilians and soldiers in a murderous rampage in southern Israel, the […]

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Palestinian Protests Have Gotten Out Of Hand

Loud, aggressive and intimidating Palestinian protests supporting Hamas, demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, and falsely accusing Israel of genocide have been proliferating like weeds in Canadian and American cities for more than three months now. Frankly speaking, they have gotten out of hand, the sanctity of freedom of assembly and free speech […]

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South Africa Has Embarked On A Crooked Road

South Africa has gone down a very crooked road in accusing Israel of “genocidal intent” in its military campaign to eradicate Hamas and remove it from power. In light of the atrocities that Hamas perpetrated last October in southern Israel, which ran the gamut from mass murder to sexual assault, Israel had every moral and […]