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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...
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Palestine and progressive politics in a post-Harper Canada
According to prolific writer Naomi Klein, solidarity with Palestine “is the hardest organising circle.” More specifically, she referred to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on university campuses. When Klein was a student, she saw for herself how the call for a boycott and sanctions in order to...
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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...
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Sharon may be dead, but his apartheid legacy taints us all
The shadow of the ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has died aged 85, has always had a peculiar place in my life. He was in part the trigger of my interest in the Palestine-Israel conflict. I recall sitting in the living room in Montreal on an autumnal September...