Category: Anti-Racism
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Scapegoating Dr. Hassan Diab in France and Canada: The Varieties of Moral Experience
The fate of Dr. Hassan Diab is being determined by an absence of morality as in scapegoating, and by an absolutist moral stance that law is engraved in stone and … Keep reading »
Nakba at 75
Nakba is More Than One Day On May 15, 2023, we commemorate 75 years dispossession and violence faced by the Palestinian people, beginning in the late 1940s, and continuing to this … Keep reading »
Systemic Violence, Institutional Apathy and Toronto Schools
In 2007, youth and gun violence were hot topics in Toronto with the death of 15-year-old grade nine student Jordan Manners on May 23 at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, a … Keep reading »
Civil Society Groups to Canadian Heritage: Ditch IHRA Anti-Semitism Definition
Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has joined together with 30+ other Canadian organizations to call on the federal government to abandon prospective measures that would integrate a controversial antisemitism definition … Keep reading »
Cut Police Budgets: Police Violence Reached an All-Time High Last Year
The year 2022 was the deadliest year on record in the United States for fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. According to the Washington Post’s police shootings database, law … Keep reading »
More Cops? Not What Our Communities Need
Listening to Chief Myron Demkiw’s pitch for the 2023 budget request to the Toronto Police Services Board (TPS), it sounded like the rationale for the budgets put together by school … Keep reading »
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
This lecture by Dr. Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies in the History Department at Columbia University, was presented on October 13, 2022, as part of … Watch video »
Defending Palestinian Rights Is Not Antisemitism: The Bogus Attack on Joel Harden
Ontario New Democratic Party MPP Joel Harden has become the latest target of ongoing efforts to silence critics of Israel by smearing them with accusations of antisemitism. Antisemitism needs to … Keep reading »
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 »
Junkets to Israel and Canadian Universities: Open Letter from Canadian Academics
We, the undersigned members of the Canadian academic community wish to express our grave concerns that Canadian university presidents recently toured Israel, ignoring the apartheid conditions that Palestinians are enduring. … Keep reading »
Temporary Migration or Landed Status Now?
This is a photo from 1981. It’s a protest by migrant care workers. Their signs all read “Landed Status Now.” These calls – Landed Status Now, Status Now, or Status … Keep reading »
Policing Toronto: Strip Searching in a Divided City
Strip searching is the name for a contemporary practice of police, carceral, and security institutions. It is a technique that affords officers total control over a person, akin to the … Keep reading »