Category: Anti-Racism
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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 »
How Unions Are Backing BDS
Major unions and labor federations in Oregon recently passed unprecedented resolutions calling for divestment from an Israeli company over its human rights abuses. In March, both the American Federation of … Keep reading »
The Killing of Shireen Abu Aqleh and Israel’s Increased Use of Arbitrary Lethal Force
Al-Haq condemns in the strongest possible terms the direct killing of prominent Palestinian female journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh while on an assignment covering Israeli incursions in Jenin refugee camp on … Keep reading »
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 »
West’s Response to Russian Invasion Demolishes Excuses for Rejecting BDS Against Apartheid Israel
Palestinians are watching with empathy the suffering of millions of Ukrainians facing war, particularly the over two million refugees seeking safety in neighboring countries. In harmony with the absolute majority … Keep reading »