Yesterday, Canada’s former Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, a relentless promoter of Israel, spoke at Concordia University in Montreal. Along with Yves Engler and Malcolm Guy of Quebec [...]
June 4, 2019 The pro-Israel lobby is apoplectic. After pulling out all the stops to end the annual Al Quds Day rally in Toronto, the lobby failed spectacularly to stop it. Now, in an effort to [...]
(Photograph above: Ontario Premier Doug Ford embraces Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during Rivlin’s recent visit to Canada.) June 3, 2019 This past weekend, during my keynote [...]
June 2, 2019 Yesterday, over 1,000 protesters gathered outside the United States Consulate in Toronto to demand justice for Palestinians. In so doing, they defied a bevy of pro-Israel [...]
May 30, 2019 Earlier this week, I spoke with Phil Taylor of The Taylor Report on Toronto’s CIUT FM Radio. Our discussion concerned the plight of the Palestinian people, the Trump [...]
May 27, 2019 In December 2016, when NDP leader Jagmeet Singh was a member of Ontario’s legislature, he admirably opposed an anti-BDS motion promoted by the Centre for Israel and Jewish [...]
May 23, 2019 On May 21 and 22, 2019, Canada’s Federal Court in Toronto heard arguments as to the illegality of Israel’s settlements in the West Bank. The context for the debate about [...]
On May 6, 2019, Paul Manly of the Green Party of Canada won a historic byelection in the B.C. riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith. For the first time in over 35 years of existence, the Green Party will [...]
April 19, 2019 As I have previously reported on this website, I am legal counsel to Dr. David Kattenburg in a judicial review application pending in the Federal Court of Canada. Dr. [...]
(In the photograph above, John Tory and James Pasternak pose with 30 Israeli students visiting Canada in March 2015.) March 22, 2019 On March 21, 2019, I spoke at Toronto City Hall on behalf of [...]
