Israel
Israel and apartheid: A fair comparison? by Edward C. Corrigan
There is a controversy raging in North America over Israeli Apartheid Week (March 1 to 7, 2010). A resolution was passed in the Ontario Provincial Parliament, which was unanimously supported (though only 30 MPPs voted), declared the comparison of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians to apartheid as "odious."
To quote an article in The Toronto Star, Canada's largest circulation paper:
Who determines Canada's Israel policy? by Murray Dobbin
It has been said by many American commentators critical of Israeli policy in the occupied territories that Israel in effect writes U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. It is hard to dispute the claim even though on occasion the U.S. does balk at the most outrageous Israeli plans such as its eagerness to bomb Iranian nuclear sites (the U.S. knows it wouldn't stop there and a wider war would almost certainly ensue).
Will Harper criminalize criticism of Israel? by Murray Dobbin
Ever since the Israeli invasion of the Gaza strip last December the global debate surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has intensified with both sides upping the ante, and the stakes of the framing battle increasing almost daily. One of the most recent -- but almost totally unreported -- developments in Canada is something called the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism (CPCCA).
How Israel Destroyed Syria's Al Kibar Nuclear Reactor by Erich Follath & Holger Stark
The mighty Euphrates river is the subject of the prophecies in the Bible's Book of Revelation, where it is written that the river will be the scene of the battle of Armageddon: "The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East."
Is Canada More Pro-Israel Than the United States? by Yves Engler
"No other country in the world has demonstrated such full understanding of us," says Ultra-Right Wing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of Canada.
Is Canada more pro-Israel than the US?
Controversy Over Israel Waylays Toronto Film Festival by Richard Silverstein
The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the world's foremost film events. It features starlets, klieg lights, red carpets and all the hoopla that goes along with the world of cinema.
This year, the festival features Oprah Winfrey's much-ballyhooed film Precious, which won the People's Choice award.
Intelligence Above All: Israel's Superior Spy Program by Christopher Ketcham
Scratch a counterintelligence officer in the U.S. government and they'll tell you that Israel is not a friend to the United States.
Jewish is Coolish…At Last! by Meta Wagner
I think the time is right to pose the following question: Is it finally cool to be Jewish? If it turns out the answer is “yes,” that would represent one giant leap for Jewishkind. Let’s face it, my people typically consider themselves smart and funny and menschy. But, cool? Not so much.
Yet, who’s hipper than entertainers? And who’s disproportionately represented in the entertainment field? Jewish people!
An open letter to the Toronto International Film Festival
As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival’s decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine.
The Futility of Truth or Reconciliation in Waltz with Bashir by Luke Fenchel
“Where are you Arabs?!” a grieving Palestinian woman begs to a camera crew filming the aftermath of the 1982 massacre in Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila neighborhoods. “Produce images and distribute, produce images and distribute” she pleads, “and send them overseas!”
These lines appear without subtitles, and remain the un-translated last words of Ari Folman’s new film, Waltz with Bashir.
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