Palestine
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 Can You Trust The Cowardly BBC? by Robert Fisk
The BBC Trust is now a mouthpiece for the Israeli lobby which abused Bowen
The BBC Trust's report on Jeremy Bowen's dispatches from the Middle East is pusillanimous, cowardly, outrageous, factually wrong and ethically dishonest.
But I am mincing my words.
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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