Last week, students at the University of British Columbia rejected a referendum question that would have urged the student society to boycott Israeli businesses and products. But the news was by no means all good when the results came in…
Prime Minister Stephen Harper reiterated Canada’s support for a two-state solution in a conversation last week with Binyamin Netanyahu, the just-reelected prime minister of Israel. The commitment to Palestinian self-determination was a subtle but clear message to the Israeli leader.…
The 15th annual Chutzpah! Festival of the Jewish Performing Arts concluded on Sunday with the group Diwan Saz. Their main message: music has no borders. And, “Don’t believe the news,” i.e. Israel is more than a conflict zone. Yet, our…
At a rally in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on March 7, calling for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to be replaced in the upcoming elections, protesters held signs saying “Change Now.” (photo by Ashernet) This week’s pre-election tempest is over whether…
The controversy around Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress this week was so fraught with partisan rancor – or at least with punditry alleging partisan rancor – that the theme at the AIPAC conference in Washington,…
The attack on a Copenhagen synagogue – and the public reaction to it – has been illuminating. It also raises echoes from Danish and Jewish history, in ways that are not encouraging. Of all the many incidents during the Holocaust…
After the attacks in Copenhagen, like after the violence and vandalisms that have rocked the French Jewish community, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is urging the Jews of Europe to come to Israel as violence against Jews and Jewish institutions increases…
Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously struck down the law that makes it illegal for doctors in Canada to provide medical assistance to severely ill patients who wish to die. The court decision permits physicians to assist in…
Last week, the federal government introduced proposed legislation intended to strengthen anti-terror powers of police, the intelligence service and the military. The legislation would make it illegal to advocate or promote terrorism, would allow courts to remove terrorist propaganda from…
Iran’s propaganda machine Press TV on Monday reported that U.S. President Barack Obama had “unfriended” Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Facebook. Predictably, it turned out the report was a hoax. Iran’s humorless propagandists reported as fact a joke from…
