Middle East

This week, after the announcement of a ‘humanitarian pause’ in Gaza, I spoke with Zain Raza of Germany’s AcTVism Munich about the trajectory of Israel’s war on Gaza. [...]

Since October 7, 2023, Canadian-Palestinian artist and educator Rehab Nazzal has been in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. On November 22, 2023, Rehab spoke with me about current conditions in [...]

On November 9, 2023, I delivered a speech to anti-apartheid protesters at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) about the humanitarian catastrophe that Israel has created in Gaza. I argued [...]

(This is the second part of a two-part article on Israel’s looming defeat. Part 1 can be read here.) Israel is vulnerable to military defeat After the devastating attacks of October 7, many [...]

On November 7, 2023 in Montreal, CEO Catherine Tait of Canada’s national broadcaster, the CBC, gave a speech on the threats to the CBC’s “independent journalism”. During [...]

From its founding in 1948, Israel has gotten away with murder. It has systematically flouted the laws of war. It has violated relentlessly the sovereignty of its neighbours, even going so far as [...]

This past weekend, I spoke with American documentary filmmaker Regis Tremblay about Israel’s latest war on Gaza. I explained to Regis the basis of my view that Israel is essentially a huge [...]

On October 24, 2023, I travelled from Beirut to areas of south Lebanon bordering on Israel. After stopping in Qana (which is the subject of a separate report I published yesterday), I visited the [...]

On October 24, 2023, as Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants continued to exchange fire in south Lebanon, I returned to the Lebanon-Israel border. This was my second visit to the border since I [...]

On October 22, 2023, while visiting the border between Israel and Lebanon, I spoke with the Abbas Diab, the President of the Lebanese village of Taybeh. Taybeh lies two kilometres from the border [...]