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Adil Charkaoui and Abousfian Abdelrazik have each spent years battling to clear their names. Both have essentially fought their own government to restore their rights and have found freedom after long journeys through the Canadian justice system. But someone is not giving up the fight.
Some 18 months ago, the Canadian Arab Federation launched a lawsuit against Jason Kenney, Minister of Immigration and Citizenship. Mr. Kenney had accused CAF of being an anti-Semitic organization and used this charge as a pretext for cutting funding to some CAF-run settlement programs. In addition, Mr. Kenney used every occasion to smear CAF and associate its activities with terrorism and anti-Semitism.
In the shadow of last year's celebration of the centennial of the War of 1812, who would have foreseen that the war would be reopened? Yet, such is the case. We might not have noticed, till Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney brought it to our attention.
Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, is doling out $451,280 of taxpayers' dollars to the Parliamentary Centre to hold a conference on combating antisemitism from November 7 to 9.
Which Canadians suffer more discrimination: Those of African descent, Muslims, Latin Americans, South Asians, East Asians, Arabs, First Nations or Jews?
A book review by Judith Maclean Miller
Since the 1917 Balfour Declaration - a public statement issued by the British government during World War I, announcing support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine - a never-ending struggle for Palestinian statehood on Israeli occupied lands - with Jerusalem as the focal point - has continued unabated. Moreover, according to Yeshoshua Ben-Arich, a historical geographer at Hebrew University, it was the British who considered Jerusalem so important.
Paul Bennett in his article (The Halifax Herald, Oct 3, 2010) "Tale of Jews under Muslim rule", reviewing the book: "In Ishmael's House", by Martin Gilbert, relates episodes of Muslims' ill-treatment of Jews. This account contradicts the universal history of Muslims and Jews living together in peace and friendship, until the recent introduction of Zionism. Testimony to this is manifold, and is confirmed by Jewish historians.
Israel and Gaza are again attacking each other, Syria is descending into civil war, four American diplomats killed in Libya: the Middle East is more fragile than ever. "Both sides should cease all hostilities," says former US President Jimmy Carter. "Israel should end its blockade of Gaza, and Western countries should work to facilitate reconciliation between Hamas and their Palestinian rival, Fatah. As long as Gaza remains isolated, the situation in and around Gaza will remain volatile."
Elections are such infuriating spectacles that sometimes one doesn't know which obscenity to utter first. But I've decided to aim my initial outburst at the Harper Tories.
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In early 2023, months before Israel launched its genocidal war on Palestinians, renowned French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd opined that World War III had begun.