Author: Michelle Weinroth
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CBC and Its Normalization of Genocide
Dear Brodie Fenlon and CBC journalists, We have been told that Israel has killed more than 15,000 children in Gaza. But that figure does not square with reality. Jonathan Cook … Keep reading »
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What’s “hate speech” Got To Do With It? Moral Panic and the Media’s Politics of Distraction
I woke up on Monday morning, April 22, 2024, to a CBC storm. A blast of CBC rhetoric shot through the airwaves repeatedly over that day like ice pellets pummelling … Keep reading »
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An Ode to Israel’s Genocide
Dear Friends and Fellow Activists, News of the horrors in Gaza seems to worsen by the day. I, like so many others, have found it increasingly difficult to absorb the … Watch video »
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The Diab Affair: Why Canada Must Say No to France
Open Letter to Justice Critic Randall Garrison The fate of Dr. Diab hangs in the balance. More than four months have elapsed since France sentenced him to life in prison. France … Keep reading »
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Say “No” to a Second Extradition for Hassan Diab
The following letter has been delivered to Prime Minister Trudeau. Signed by 116 academics, lawyers, faith leaders, journalists and activists, and 24 organizations, the letter was written by Michelle Weinroth, … Keep reading »
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Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Minors: a Horror Show
I want you to look at this picture. No, please don’t look away. Look at it carefully. Beyond the huddle of hefty military figures, armed to the teeth with their … Keep reading »
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Unfinished Business: The Hassan Diab Affair Continues
Many in Ottawa may remember the day he returned to Canada from France. A crowd of longstanding supporters, his wife, and little children received him with open arms and crimson … Keep reading »
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Trudeau: End Hassan Diab’s Ordeal Now!
Forty and some years have elapsed, yet the French authorities have failed to find the real culprit for the 1980 bombing of the synagogue on rue Copernic, Paris. Not only … Keep reading »
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Debating the IHRA and Anti-Semitism: Why the CIJA Lost
For more than five years, and on numerous occasions, the Jewish anti-racist social justice organization Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) invited the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) – … Keep reading »
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Neither Cure nor Prevention, but Sheer Punishment
The IHRA’s Definition of Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism is a grave matter; its mere utterance conjures unspeakable horrors – atrocities typically tied to the Holocaust, but also to the longstanding racist persecution of … Keep reading »
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“Justice Dies in the Darkness”: The ‘External Review’ of the Hassan Diab Case
When former Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould declined Hassan Diab’s request for an independent and transparent public inquiry into his wrongful and harrowing extradition to France, he, along with his lawyer, and … Keep reading »
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Fact-Checking the Jewish National Fund of Canada
My parents first met in 1945 on the subway cars of New York city. They were 16 years of age. Like many Zionist youth of the post-war era, they were … Keep reading »