Middle East

Since Israel launched its genocidal war on Palestinians three months ago, Israel’s apologists have launched an unprecedented assault on Canadians’ right to protest. In Calgary, a [...]

After Israel’s drone strike in Beirut, Lebanon on January 2, 2024, I spoke today with Lebanese-Canadian journalist Nada Raphaël, who currently lives in Lebanon. Nada explained that, many [...]

Today, I attended a press conference by Canada’s Environment Minister, Steven Guilbeault. What happened there was yet another demonstration that, in Canada, freedom of the press is largely [...]

Yesterday, Canada’s pro-Israel lobby went bananas after the Trudeau government tossed a crumb to the Palestinian people. For the second time in two months, the United Nations General [...]

On December 2, 2023, I spoke to protesters on Parliament Hill in Ottawa about Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine. In my speech, I explained why Israel’s attacks on Gaza amount to [...]

Over the past month, I’ve argued repeatedly that Israel is hurtling toward a strategic defeat. My projection was based in part on Israel’s total abandonment of restraint in its [...]

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

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 America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier is [...]