By Rafeef Ziadah - Znet

As a Palestinian refugee, the city of Toronto has always been a place of exile to me...However, following the publication of a recent report by [a] prominent Israeli think-tank [which called Toronto a “hub of Israel delegitimization”]...I felt some pride for my adopted city...The report confirmed to those of us involved in the [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] movement that our work was not in vain.

March 12, 2010

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV)...welcomes yesterday's defeat of MP Tim Uppal's House of Commons motion condemning Israeli Apartheid Week..."This shows courage to stand up to the Orwellian attempts by Israel's supporters to bully Israel's critics into silence..."

By GARETH PORTER - March 8, 2010

It turns out...that the picture of Marja presented by military officials and obediently reported by major news media is one of the clearest and most dramatic pieces of misinformation of the entire war, apparently aimed at hyping the offensive as a historic turning point in the conflict..."This is all a war of perceptions."

By Dean Beeby - Wednesday, Mar. 03, 2010

Internal documents show an early draft of the [Citizenship] guide contained sections noting that homosexuality was decriminalized in 1969; that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation; and that same-sex marriage was legalized nationally in 2005...But Mr. Kenney, who fought same-sex marriage when it was debated in Parliament, ordered those key sections removed when his office sent its comments to the department last June.

By ELLEN BROWN - March 2, 2010

Rather than saving the future for our grandchildren...[“fiscal responsibility”] appears to be a code word for delivering public monies into private hands and raising taxes on the already-squeezed middle class. In the parlance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), these are called “austerity measures,” and they are the sorts of things that people are taking to the streets in Greece, Iceland and Latvia to protest. Americans are not taking to the streets only because nobody has told us that is what is being planned.

By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN - March 3, 2010

Public outrage at the Gaza invasion did not come out of the blue but rather marked the nadir of a curve plotting a steady decline in support for Israel. As polling data of Americans and Europeans...suggest, the public has become increasingly critical of Israeli policy over the past decade. The horrific images of death and destruction broadcast around the world during and after the invasion accelerated this development.

By Allen Frances - March 1, 2010

This wholesale medical imperialization of normality could potentially create tens of millions of innocent bystanders who would be mislabeled as having a mental disorder. The pharmaceutical industry would have a field day -- despite the lack of solid evidence of any effective treatments for these newly proposed diagnoses.

By Shourideh cherie Molavi - March 02, 2010

Ontario [politicians] are not interested in a political discussion. Realizing that public dissent and discourse in the face of continued infringements of human dignity and blatant violations of international law cannot be muted easily, the argument is now that there is no issue with debating the Israel-Palestine conflict, instead, “the problem is the name Israeli Apartheid Week.” The concern lies with the mere use of the word apartheid to describe the Israeli system of occupation, expulsion, exclusion and exploitation.

By Hanna Kawas, Canada Palestine Association - February 27, 2010

I am a Palestinian Christian who survived Israel’s “Original Sin” that uprooted two thirds of the Palestinian people and wiped out over four hundred Palestinian towns and villages...I am also one of the six million refugees who have been waiting for the past sixty-one years to return to their homes, lands and homeland. I am hurt and outraged at the morally bankrupt resolution of your Legislature. It adds insult to injury.

By Edward Herman - January 01, 2010

It is of great interest and importance that the emergence, growth, and dominance of the National Security State in Latin America, complete with the widespread prevalence of death squads and torture...took place in the U.S. backyard and with crucial U.S. initiative and support. It is also notable that U.S. liberals were in the forefront in advancing this process.

By Anthony Fenton - February 24, 2010

"It's now fair to speculate that the [Olympic] Games have been used even more cynically -- as cover for a massive new NATO offensive in Afghanistan that has already claimed many Afghan civilians' lives. Operation Moshtarak, with Canadian Forces participation, was launched in the southern province of Helmand on Feb. 12, the day of the Opening Ceremonies in Vancouver."

-- Vancouver Anti-War activist Derrick O'Keefe writing in rabble.ca

By Diana Ralph - Friday, 05 February 2010

The National Post published seven prominent articles defaming me and Independent Jewish Voices, between September 17 and 30. In January, 2010 these allegations were repeated as fact by the Canadian Jewish Congress, Canadian Jewish News, and the National Post, this time to serve the CJC’s agenda of driving a wedge between IJV and the United Church of Canada, and to pressure the United Church to sideline resolutions critical of Israel...

By MICHAEL NEUMANN - October 29, 2009

Anti-semites have flocked to criticism of Israel precisely because criticism of Israel is so amply justified...[C]riticizing Israel is not only correct, it's the right thing to do. The more-than-overwhelming majority of those who criticize Israel are genuine humanitarians, genuine enemies of oppression and ethnic nationalism, genuine fighters for justice. The more obvious this has become, the more anti-semites get on board.

By STAN GOFF - February 1, 2010

The Joint Special Operations Command...carries with it a mystique. The press, JSOC's promoters and its critics, as well as the entertainment media, have all contributed to its mystique...Hollywood, pulp fiction, television drama, infotainment "news," and military-veteran boosterism all contribute to the vast ignorance of military matters, by overdramatizing military life and military operations, and by idealizing it.

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