Apr 20, 2017 | Politics
Why is it acceptable for Muslims to say “Respect existence or expect resistance,” but not the rest of Canada? Why do Muslims not have to respect our existence? And why are we told not to resist? Anti-Muslim rhetoric has intensified in Canada,...
Apr 19, 2017 | Politics
“If I must have preferences, let me murmur in you ear that I prefer Arabs to Jews” Anthony Eden, Great Britain 1943 Israel’s leaders lied to the Jewish people – at the very least, they obfuscated about the “two-state” solution. Living...
Apr 18, 2017 | Politics
Our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is concerned about the well-being of Canadian citizens. “Canadians have understood that our differences are a source of strength, not a source of weakness.” He called for the need to “work to ensure that everyone understands [and...
Apr 15, 2017 | Politics
When I think about the wanton, cowardly attack at the Boston Marathon, and the courageous response I’ll be wondering about the moral path of my neighbour who stops at nothing to prevent terrorist attacks on her soil but seems reticent in giving Israel that same...
Apr 14, 2017 | Politics
I suggest that we are going through another upheaval against the establishment-this time from the right. “An anti-anti-establishmentarianism.” Timothy Egan wrote in the New York Times “We know that Trump-induced stress has spiked. As a response,...
Apr 12, 2017 | Politics
Now that we have a state for which so many of our people have died, there is no longer any excuse to sacrifice more lives or more land. I was a dental hygienist working in Public Health in a Toronto suburb when Israel went to war in 1973. My colleagues in...
