On March 12, 2024, I visited the Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp in occupied Palestine. I was accompanied by Canadian-Palestinian artist Rehab Nazzal. The Freedom Theatre was established [...]
Today, I visited the Jenin and Far’a refugee camps in occupied Palestine. I was accompanied by Palestinian-Canadian artist Rehab Nazzal, who lives and works in another part of the occupied [...]
On the first day of Ramadan, I visited the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem. In May 2021, the neighbourhood gained international notoriety after an Israeli Court ordered six [...]
On Day 21 of their indefinite hunger strike for Palestine, McGill University students Rania Amine and Bogdan Stilmashenko spoke with me today about McGill’s refusal to accede to any of [...]
This past week, in the second segment of my month-long trek across the Middle East, I spent three days in Amman, the capital of Jordan. On my final day there, protesters held their 23rd [...]
This week, while in Qatar, I attended the Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition (DIMDEX). According to the Qatari government, DIMDEX is “a flagship event for the international [...]
On March 1, 2024, Russian state broadcaster RT published an audio recording of a conversation between senior German military officials. In that recording, the officials, including a German [...]
Since Israel launched its war on Palestinians, Britain has used Cyprus, its ‘unsinkable warship’, to enable Israel’s genocide. Akrotiri, near Limassol in southern Cyprus, is one [...]
Kabuki is a classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance. It is known for its heavily stylized performances, its glamorous, highly decorated costumes, [...]
Avdiivka has fallen, and with it, NATO’s credibility. Fortress Avdiivka Before the Ukraine war, Avdiivka was an industrial city with a population exceeding 31,000. It lies about thirteen [...]
On February 13, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz took a break from destroying Germany’s “dramatically bad” economy, and spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. During [...]
This week, as Israel’s military prepared to launch a full-scale attack on Rafah, Israel was hit with a tidal wave of bad news. Legally, politically, economically and militarily, the [...]
On January 31, 2024, a Senior Judge of the U.S. Federal District Court issued a stinging rebuke of Biden’s “unflagging support” for Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. In [...]
From the moment that the ICJ issued its historic decision against Israel last Friday, Israel’s propagandists started lying about it. Although the Court did not use the word “ceasefire”, the only [...]
Today, the International Court of Justice issued an historic decision in favour of South Africa’s genocide claim against Israel. The decision will reverberate in international relations for years [...]
In the past two weeks, I was invited twice onto Radio 640 AM Toronto to debate two high-profile supporters of Israel’s war on Gaza. The experience was surreal. The first of my opponents was [...]
Today, I spoke with American documentary film-maker Regis Tremblay about the prospects of a South African victory at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). I explained to Regis why I believe [...]
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 [...]
