My mother-in-law recently passed away at age 97. Her generation, the Nakba survivors, are quickly leaving us, along with their important historical legacy.
Activists in Canada are launching a national campaign to demand that Scotiabank immediately divest from Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.
Israel’s new far-right government is pushing more and more to criticize the country, but the Palestine solidarity movement cannot sacrifice core values for political expediency.
In 2019, Vancouver rejected the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism but now a new city council is planning to adopt it despite outcry from the community.
Activists for Palestine are considering the knock-on effects of the western support for Ukrainian resistance. Does the Zionist lobby think that they can carry on with their anti-BDS bashing as usual, once the Ukraine crisis is no longer in the news? Or are we witnessing a qualitative shift? The number of social media posts talking about the bravery of Ukrainian women, usually in fatigues and holding a gun, are too numerous to count. While pro-Palestinian organizations continue to have their social media posts censored for milder fare.
A Canadian-based company with an advisory board headed by a former Canadian PM and full of former spies is marketing Israeli surveillance technology to dictatorial Arab regimes.