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Kristallnacht in Canada’s Parliament

Antisemitism on full display in Parliament courtesy of Jagmeet Singh and the NDP-Liberal Coalition. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana In recent years, Canada has seen a troubling rise in antisemitic incidents, prompting serious concerns about the roots and perpetuation of this

The Best Ships Are Friendships: Irish Ambassador Eamonn McKee on Diplomacy and the Utilities of History

Eamonn McKee is Ireland’s Ambassador to Canada, Jamaica, The Bahamas and just recently Antigua and Barbuda. (Ireland has a consulate-general in Vancouver and honorary consulates in Calgary, Edmonton, and St. John’s.) He joined Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs in 1986, a year prior to graduating from the National University of

PSAC Leadership Faces Backlash: Jewish Federal Employees Challenge Discrimination and Anti-Israel Stance

In a move to confront alleged antisemitism by the leadership team at the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), Jewish members of PSAC filed 14 individual complaints at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal against their union for advancing an anti-Israel agenda and causing a culture of discrimination and harassment against

Rallies for Palestine Fail to Win Hearts and Minds

In December, I attended the rally for the Jewish People on Parliament Hill and wrote about it here. At that point, Israel’s retaliatory attack on Hamas in the Gaza Strip had been underway for about two months. I readily admit that I am pro-Israel, and while the current suffering of

Supporting an Unconditional Ceasefire is Supporting Hamas 

By Becca Wertman-Traub and Emmanuelle Amar On December 12, Canadian foreign policy showed its hypocrisy, flip-flopping from a statement that clearly condemned Hamas and its role in perpetrating violence against both Israelis and Palestinians, to, just a few hours later, voting in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution that

The recent Gaza war — back to basics

ABOVE: Israel’s Iron Dome works to blowup incoming Hamas rockets in Tel Aviv. (May 11, 2021, IMAGE VIA SKYNEWS) by Howard Adelman Peter Beinart wrote two important pieces in Jewish Currents, one last summer that claimed, “The painful truth is that the project to which liberal Zionists like myself have devoted
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