Communications

For roughly fourteen months — since Hamas carried out their horrific terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7 — adoring fans of the group have said and done things across Canada which should have the entire country up in arms. From planning a vigil for slain Palestinian terrorist Yahya Sinwar in Mississauga (who the Mayor of Mississauga likened to Nelson Mandela) to calling...

The Biden Administration’s leadership in the Middle East since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack was weak and ineffective. Since Donald Trump’s election earlier this month, many Jews in both Canada and the United States are expecting a sea change in the United States’ approach. Are they right? Despite the president-elect’s recorded statements in favour of Israel, the reality is...

Nearly a century ago, the Nazis burned the books of Jewish authors. Today, the publishing world is attempting to resurrect the exclusion of writers because of either their faith and nationality or their refusal to conform to a new intellectual diktat.

Last fall, Jewish university students across Canada faced an unrelenting onslaught of harassment, abuse, violence, and antisemitic vitriol due to the war between Israel and Hamas. Shortly after the devastating terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7 and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza, pro-Palestinian protestors and agitators – including dozens of faculty members –...

Casey Babb, a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the Institute for National Security Studies, as well as an adviser with Secure Canada, told the National Post that he’s never before seen such levels of antisemitism in Canada. “Antisemitism in Canada and abroad is primarily presenting itself through the prism of anti-Zionism, which, in my opinion, is the...

For the last several decades, Jews have often been targeted, vilified and attacked not for some grotesque, morally repugnant or baseless claim — the usual sources of antisemitism – but rather for something we love, cherish, embrace and celebrate: Zionism. For many, including myself, this form of Jew-hatred is particularly traumatizing given that to us – Zionism is a beautiful...

For the better part of twenty years, I’ve been active on university campuses in this country. As a young undergraduate student at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, I was molded by mentors in the Political Science Department who gave my peers and I the freedom to debate everything from sex in politics, to our foreign policy, to the wars and carnage in Afghanistan and Iraq....

Tuvia Gering, a researcher at the China Policy Center at the Israel Institute for National Security Studies, clarified: “I don’t think the way China controls Tik Toks to tell it what to do. But this is a Chinese company that understands the commander’s mentality. So if the CCP stands on the side of Palestine, of course it will not aid or help the other party that is opposed to...

Violent discourse is deeply embedded in Israel. Its mainstream media rarely if ever broadcast images of the destruction in Gaza. The Israeli pop singer Eyal Golan called for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to “wipe out Gaza and leave no one there”. The singer Kobi Peretz danced with soldiers who sang, “May your village burn.” Celebrities have contributed to the febrile...