Sep 11, 2017
Roger Waters' support for BDS strengthens his anti-war credibility
Thomas Woodley
Roger Waters' support for BDS has come under strident criticism by Canada's pro-Israel lobby, but Waters' human rights credibility is difficult to deny
Palestine
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Sep 6, 2017  B'nai Brith's shameful attack on Niki AshtonYves Engler Having failed to deter Ashton from expressing support for the Palestinian cause by associating her with "terrorists," B'nai Brith brought the Holocaust into the NDP leadership race. |
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Sep 4, 2017  Israel's war of textbooks comes to CanadaThomas Woodley Israel's school textbooks have the same and sometimes worse problems than Palestinian school textbooks. |
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Aug 18, 2017  Jagmeet Singh's trip to Israel and breaking the NDP silence on PalestineYves Engler Singh wants NDP members to think he's opposed to Israeli violence and supportive of Palestinian solidarity activism. Simultaneously he wants to signal to CIJA and Israeli officials he'll play ball |
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Jul 24, 2017  Al-Aqsa Mosque violence - a symptom of the Palestinian crisisAsia Pacific Currents Violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is one of the latest crisis in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. With Reem Unis, Palestinian social activist from Australia. |
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Jul 15, 2017  Niki Ashton speaking truth to power on PalestineYves Engler Israel lobby groups' response (or lack thereof) to NDP leadership candidate Niki Ashton’s recent support of Palestinian rights suggests they believe previous criticisms backfired. |
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Jul 14, 2017  Canada's flip-flop on West Bank wines a betrayal of consumers' interestsThomas Woodley With the recent flip-flop of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on the labelling and sale of West Bank wines in Canada, it's easy to wonder whose interest the agency serves. |
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May 15, 2017  Huge Palestinian prisoner hunger strike is a fight for justiceAsia Pacific Currents Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region and interview on the massive hunger strike by 1,500 Palestinian prisoners |
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May 10, 2017  Why Canadians should care about the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisonersLibby Davies Canada can, and should, use its influence at the UN, in the international community, and with Israel directly, to call for attention and action to respond to the Palestinian prisoner demands. |
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May 10, 2017  Why are Palestinian political prisoners on a hunger strike?Nahla Abdo Palestinian political prisoners have been on a hunger strike since April 16, demanding respect for their basic human rights. |
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Mar 21, 2017  UN's 1947 Partition Plan made Palestine a deal it had to refuseMichelle Weinroth On the 70th anniversary year of the UN Partition Plan for Palestine, Michelle Weinroth looks past the myths to expose the truth behind this patently unjust deal for the Palestinians. |
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Mar 17, 2017  NDP leadership debate fails to mention Canada's foreign policyYves Engler At the party's first leadership debate last weekend there wasn't a single foreign policy question despite a host of contentious recent party positions on international affairs |
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Mar 14, 2017  Free the children from Jewish National FundYves Engler "Charitable" JNF teaches children an exclusive, religious and ethnic nationalism while promoting war. |
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Mar 3, 2017  Drop the myth. Lester Pearson was no friend of PalestineYves Engler Lester Pearson does not represent an evenhanded, let alone justice-oriented, policy towards Palestinians. He enabled the Zionist movement’s 1947/48 ethnic cleansing. |
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Feb 6, 2017  Will Conservative party puffery or NDP principle determine Canada's Palestine policy?Yves Engler As the NDP race revs up expect Palestine to be debated in a way that troubles Israeli nationalists. |
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Jan 7, 2017  Ezra Levant keeps shooting himself in the foot, again and againJohn Gordon Miller The latest libel suit against Levant, filed by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, suggests he never met a fact he didn't distrust. |
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Jan 2, 2017  Millionaire patrons of Jewish studies in Canada more interested in pro-Israel lobby than anti-racismYves Engler The individuals driving Jewish studies and anti-Semitism lessons in Canada overwhelmingly back Jewish and white supremacy in the Middle East. |
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Dec 15, 2016  Justin Trudeau follows Stephen Harper's lead in Israel and PalestineGerry Caplan Justin Trudeau's new government's policy towards Israel and Palestine just happens to be identical to Stephen Harper's old government's policy. |
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Dec 8, 2016  Green Party compromise on BDS motion offers win for everyone -- and plenty of confusionThomas Woodley A "compromise" resolution endorsed in advance by both party brass and influential grassroots activists suggested that everyone could have what they wanted. Sort of. |
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Nov 28, 2016  More than 50 cultural and political icons urge Green Party to stay the course on BDSvarious More than 50 cultural and political figures released the following open letter today, calling for the Green Party of Canada not to reverse its policy to support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. |
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Nov 24, 2016  Why can't we have a real, open debate on Israel and Palestine?Thomas Woodley Some moves by pro-Israeli organizations seem intent not on furthering political debate on Palestine, but preventing it. |
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Nov 22, 2016  'Canada is back' to isolating itself from world opinion on Palestinian rightsYves Engler It's hard to tell Canada's political parties apart when it comes to enabling Israeli oppression of Palestinians. |
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Oct 14, 2016  Atlantic Jewish Council doesn't speak for all Jewish Haligonians on PinkwashingLarry Haiven The Atlantic Jewish Council took over Halifax Pride's Annual General Meeting in order to protect Israel's pinkwashing campaign "Size Doesn't Matter." Many Jews oppose such pinkwashing campaigns. |
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Sep 22, 2016  Anti-Palestinian media bias still remains untouchable even to Canada's media criticsYves Engler A recent Canadaland podcast simultaneously highlighted anti-Palestinian media bias and the fear liberal journalists' face in discussing one of the foremost social justice issues of our time. |
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