The Gaza Genocide and the Canadian Left
This pamphlet gathers a number of important contributions on the struggle in Palestine that have emerged from the Canadian left since October 7, 2023.
Saeed Rahnema gives a concise yet comprehensive overview of the conflict’s history with an eye to the obstacles to peace. Adam Hanieh distills his vision of Middle Eastern geopolitics to highlight the role of both oil and the settler-colonial affinity in the making of unqualified US support for Israel. Sunera Thobani’s essay discusses the centrality of women in the culture of Palestinian resistance, and their commensurate targeting in the current genocide. Turning back to Canada, Larry Haiven discusses the Zionist worldview’s spurious positioning of the Holocaust as the only true genocide in history — the genocide that must always eclipse any other. Martin Lukacs gives a vivid account of how the antisemitism smear has seeped into Canadian policing, with the dizzying result that anti-racist pro-Palestine activists are being baselessly charged with hate crimes. The pseudonymous author Molly Schumann then gives us a vitally important peek behind the curtain at anti-Palestinian bias and censorship at the CBC. Judy Rebick, finally, reflects on the ways in which today’s pro-Palestine movement echoes previous anti-war movements, the progressive effects of which reverberated through many areas of North American life. A preface is written by Niko Block, the collection’s editor.
Socialist Interventions Pamphlet No. 23 – September 2024.
