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Items by Sabrien Amrov
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Canada, Palestine and the Ku Klux Klan
This article was co-authored by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours. A Canadian politician has likened a grassroots, human rights movement to the notorious, white supremacist, Ku Klux Klan. And the overwhelming response was silent acquiescence. On 1 December, Ontario provincial parliament member Gila Martow brought Motion 36 to a vote in a half-empty legislature. The...
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Palestine and progressive politics in a post-Harper Canada
If Trudeau is serious about his progressive leadership, the government needs to discuss campaigns like BDS in a less simplistic and demonising way...
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No matter how many compromises the Palestinians make, it will never be enough for Israel and the West
The battle to replace Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as head of the Fatah movement is underway. Simultaneously, Fatah and Hamas are trying, for the seventh time since 2007, to reconcile in a Qatari-brokered meeting in Doha with the aim of forming a unity government. With these developments, a broader conversation...
