“One Year Later…Gaza Remembered”, Talk given on January 30, 2010, at Vancouver Public Library

by Joanne Naiman
We are here tonight primarily to hear about the effects of an illegal occupation and war on the people of Gaza, and to express our solidarity with the Palestinian people. In the anti-apartheid movement, a popular slogan was [...]

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Vancouver, BC
EDITORIAL: From the Sept./Oct. 2009, issue
The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism, made up of MPs from various parties, was convened this summer, arising from the earlier London Conference to Combat Anti-Semitism. In its introductory statement inviting submissions from interested parties, it described anti-Semitism as being “widely regarded as at its worst level since [...]

Attacks on human rights groups that probe Israel’s Gaza offensive are an insult to reasonable public debate
by Antony Lerman Tuesday 15 September 2009
The Guardian
The despicable attacks on human rights organisations investigating Israel’s Gaza offensive in January confirm Churchill’s observation: “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its [...]

The concept of the ’self-hating Jew’ has been dignified with a pseudo-psychopathology by those keen to suppress dissent
By Antony Lerman
guardian.co.uk
Monday 5 October 2009
From the moment he took the job heading the UN Human Rights Council’s mission to investigate human rights and international humanitarian law violations during the Gaza conflict, it was inevitable that Judge Richard [...]

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In October, I attended the U.N. Second Substantive Session of the Preparatory Committee for the Durban Review Conference, a Preparatory Committee for the Review of the UN World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), popularly called “Durban II”, scheduled for April 2009 in Geneva. As a [...]

Criticizing Israel is not an act of bigotry February 24, 2007
A grassroots revolt is underway in Jewish communities throughout the world, a revolt that has panicked the elite organizations that have long functioned as official mouthpieces for the community. The latest sign of this panic is the recent publication by the American Jewish Committee of [...]