A Time to Speak Out - ACJC

Shofar, 2014

Examiner, 2013

For three years, I wrote for Examiner.com from June 2013 until the publication closed in July 2016. I wrote over 1,100 articles reporting American, Canadian, and Israeli politics, general breaking news, universities, education, and Judaism. I started with two beats, serving as a Politics and Judaism Examiner. Over that period, I wrote 42 articles on Judaism, repeatedly writing about specific topics. They included Israel's issues over egalitarian prayer at the Kotel, Women of the Wall-Nashot HaKotel, Pope Francis and Catholic-Jewish relations, Hebrew manuscripts collections, United States Jewish demography, the Canadian Jewish Federation System, and anti-Zionism on university campuses. The following is the collection of articles I wrote for Examiner.

2022

Welcome to the CSJS conference! There is no charge to attend, but all are invited to consider becoming members of CSJS: http://www.csjs.ca/membership. Bienvenue à la conférence de la SCÉJ. La participation est gratuite mais on vous invite à devenir membres de la société, http://www.csjs.ca/membership. La conférence se déroulera surtout en anglais, mais il y aura un panel francophone le premier jour, soit lundi après-midi. Nous espérons augmenter la présence francophone à nos conférences dans les années à venir.

2022

(Co-edited book). Why is it so difficult to advocate for Palestine in Canada and what can we learn from the movement’s successes? This account of Palestine solidarity activism in Canada grapples with these questions through a wide-ranging exploration of the movement’s different actors, approaches and fields of engagement, along with its connections to different national and transnational struggles against racism, imperialism and colonialism. Led by a coalition of students, labour unions, church groups, left wing activists, progressive presses, human rights organizations, academic associations and Palestinian and Jewish community groups, Palestine solidarity activism is on the rise in Canada and Canadians are more aware of the issues than ever before. Palestine solidarity activists are also under siege as never before. The movement advocating for Palestinian rights is forced to contend with relentless political condemnation, media blackouts, administrative roadblocks, coordinated smear campaigns, individual threats, legal intimidation and institutional silencing. Through this book and the experiences of the contributing authors in it, many seasoned veterans of the movement, Advocating for Palestine in Canada offers an indispensable and often first-hand view into the complex social and historical forces at work in one of our era’s most urgent debates.

Journal of Peace Education, 2011

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Declaration 2019 JPLO Jewish People’s Liberation Organization We, the Jewish People, are a People-Nation without a State. The discrimination by the Western Christian Nation-States has limited our freedoms by expulsions, ghettoïsation, quotas, boycotts, assimilation and annihilation. The current condition from post-Holocaust Europe was and is the transfer of the remnants of the Ashkenazim in the Spartan ghetto tied to the opportune world capitalist power base. The actual sponsor of the Zionist State of Israel is the USA and its Military-Industrial Complex. While a minority of the Jewish people are not actually citizens of the State, the Zionist leadership declares itself to be speaking in the name of all the Jewish people on behalf of the Jewish People as a whole.

2003

Open Letter of International Jewish Opposition Committees and Individuals in Solidarity with the Palestinian People September 2003 On this occasion of the third year of the current Intifada we wish to address ourselves to the Palestinian People as members of the Jewish communities and as individuals from around the world. We declare that Jewish people are not represented by the State of Israel.

2019

The purpose of the Symposium was to launch the beginning of an ongoing, pluralist discussion on Canada and Palestine. Though Palestine looms large in Canadian foreign policy and domestic politics, there is very little work published in any scholarly discipline that focuses squarely on Canada and Palestine. The Symposium worked to change this when forty leading experts came together from across Canada to share – with academics, policy professionals and the public – over 30 original research papers on discussion panels, complemented by prominent keynote speakers.