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Doug Ford (Photo: Andrew Scheer/Wikimedia)

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has adopted the IHRA’s Working Definition of Antisemitism which puts Jews at risk by implicating them in Israel’s assault on human rights.

(Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Canadian law makes it illegal to recruit soldiers for a foreign state. but the line between enticing impressionable young people to oppress Palestinians and formal recruitment is unclear. Now, activists are calling on the government to investigate the Israeli consulate for recruiting Canadians into the Israel’s military, and possible military recruitment inside of Toronto schools.

A member of the JDL defacing the Foodbenders storefront (Photo: Twitter)

When will Israeli nationalists in North America completely discredit themselves by overusing their power to crush those who defend Palestinians? Fortunately, every cancel and smear campaign it wages alienates some new people and opens others’ eyes.

Logo for the CBC show The Current (Image: Facebook)

Over 2,000 people have written to the CBC to condemn its deletion of the word Palestine and its subsequent apology for uttering the word Palestine. Despite this public outcry, the Canadian publicly funded broadcaster continues to protest that the word Palestine falls outside its language standards.

Graffitti near Qalandia checkpoint. (Photo: David Kattenberg)

CBC Radio host Duncan McCue issued an on-air apology for using the word “Palestine” in an interview on the Public Broadcaster’s flagship current affairs show.

Jaffa and the sea, August 8, 2020 (Photo: Dareen Tatour)

A CBC Radio report covers Palestinians escaping the West Bank to visit the beach in Jaffa as a cheery coexistence story rather than a result of the Israeli occupation.