Tha Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) followed the corporate media newswire framing for its headline on May 11, 2021: Israelis are “killed” with the active voice; Palestinians “die” with the passive voice. Even the headlines are colonial. And we hear the usual mantra about “rights to exist” and “rights to defend” stripped of all meaning. States don’t have “rights” to exist, any more than a corporation like Raytheon, or a car, or a nuclear reactor, or a reusable water bottle has …
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Originally published on the Electronic Intifada website on 2 October 2005. TO PROFESS “NEUTRALITY” IN THE FACE OF INJUSTICE IS TO SIDE WITH THE OPPRESSOR, SAYS CANPALNET-WINNIPEG In a press release dated September 28th, 2005, B’Nai Brith Canada claimed that the 2nd Annual Canada Palestine Film Festival, which opens today at Winnipeg’s prestigious Cinematheque …
Originally published on the Electronic Intifada website on March 21, 2003 Those of us in the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and involved in Palestine solidarity work more generally, are deeply shocked and horrified by the recent …
[NOTE: Almost 30 years ago I wrote this letter to the student newspaper at the U of M that amounted to my first public expression on Palestine. It was in defence of a (then-unknown) grad student …