The Silencing of a Giant Voice for Peace

 

Sneaky Nazis of NATO

Corrupt Congress Attacks Free Speech

 

To call protesters anti-Semitic for demonstrating on American campuses against the slaughter by Israel of over 34,000 Palestinians -- a slaughter backed by a bipartisan majority in Congress -- is evidence of the profound panic of the backers of this genocide that their crimes are out in the open.  The SS Thought Police in both parties, who just reauthorized the notorious practice of FISA spying on Americans, must be held accountable.  

This was the topic of a discussion with former CIA official and peace movement leader Ray McGovern on Saturday's LaRouche Organization's Manhattan Project.

Academic freedom for me but not for thee

 

Authorities and institutions are trampling upon free speech and academic freedom, mistaking a call for life for its opposite

The irony is palpable. This past week’s wave of student protests on college campuses across the United States, Europe, and Australia have, among other things, allowed the double standards for freedom of expression to swim clearly into focus. The same self-appointed arbiters of academic freedom and free speech who insisted on unfettered access to college campuses for the purposes of peddling transphobia, misogyny, and white supremacy, are now keen to suppress student expression at any cost, no matter how brutal or contradictory. They do so under the guise of combatting antisemitism and at the behest of a foreign government that has itself now razed each of Gaza’s universities in full or in part in the midst of a seven-month-old campaign that saw drone strikes targeting children at play, mass graves dug into the grounds of occupied hospitals, a massacre in a flour line, and the indiscriminate murder of untold thousands upon thousands of civilians while their homes are bulldozed to the ground in the service of a supposed rescue operation. Meanwhile, in an area far from Hamas control, Palestinians of the West Bank continue to endure dispossession, displacement, and violence at the hands of Israeli settlers.

Certainly, October 7 was horrific. So shocking were the reports of Hamas’ and linked groups’ atrocities that they gave pause even to those who would celebrate resistance, and for others provided further justification for the catastrophic assault on the people of Gaza that followed. This staggering violence visited upon civilians is the culmination of a 76-year-long occupation that has gone on so long that in the West many turn away in exasperation or indifference, citing “complexity,” terrorism, incivility, Iran, or prior claims to the land. Although we may live comfortably with orientalism, students pay attention. And none of the old narratives are sticking. What is new is the willingness of people to speak out en masse, knowing full well the costs of protest: blackballing, accusations of antisemitism and sympathy with terrorism, expulsion, and now police violence and incarceration. While American police in riot gear batter students and wrestle economics professors to the ground, the fact that large numbers of protestors are Jewish makes no difference. Neo-Nazis receive better treatment when they come to campus.

Closer to home, the keffiyeh is banned from the Ontario legislature while the provincial government scrambles to pass a bill that, in the name of student wellness, will almost certainly quash student speech. Those who feel threatened by appeals to international law and human rights will feel protected, no doubt. Fear is not something most of us would wish upon those with differing views, especially when it is a residue of Holocaust trauma. While it is important not to dismiss these concerns, we must also think of our students, friends, and colleagues expected to watch this massacre of their people unfold in silence because of the century-long debasement of Palestinian and Arab lives that settlers in North America tacitly accept.  (more...)

Academic freedom for me but not for thee

Michael Moore Was Almost Shot By The IDF

 

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00:04:51:05 On the Jewish history of Flint's labor struggle

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00:10:34:02 What counts as antisemitism? Okay to criticize Jeffery Epstein?

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Shut up or meet a truncheon! Victim Bryce Greene on the US student crackdown

 

Armed goons, armoured cars, choppers, snipers – for the crime of putting up a tent in a park. US campuses have become military bases, says eyewitness Bryce Greene.

Protesters set up encampment at McGill University in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza

 

The protesters held up signs with messages such as “McGill funds genocide.”

An encampment on McGill University’s downtown campus in support of Palestinians in Gaza was still going strong on Sunday.

Several tents went up after 1:30 p.m. Saturday. A ring of more than 100 young people formed around the encampment as they chanted slogans like “Palestine will live forever.”

The protesters also held up signs with messages like “McGill funds genocide.”

The protest was peaceful and within sight of several police vehicles parked near the Roddick Gates on Sherbrooke St.

A person who declined to give her name described herself as a volunteer for the protest and said the protesters had been in talks with the university, but the administration asked them not to put up the tents. She also said they planned to be there “indefinitely.”  (more...)

Protesters set up encampment at McGill University in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza

Bulwer’s Dream and the Coming Race

 

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was a British occultist, politician, grand strategist and oligarchical heir to two of the oldest bloodlines of England’s elite. He was also the first to popularize the concept of a species of automata controlled by a superior race of beings that had evolved within vast underground caves in his 1871 novel ‘Vril: The Power of the Coming Race’.

This book was no mere piece of entertainment, but rather served as a strategic outline for oligarchist planning which charted a course of action for several generations of imperialists which directly inspired the idea of a superior Aryan race that would replace humanity.

In his book, Bulwer-Lytton has two travelers happen by accident upon a vast underground civilization deep within an elaborate system of underground caves. The author describes these advanced subterranean beings as “a race akin to man’s but infinitely stronger in form and grandeur of aspect”. Bulwer-Lytton describes his advanced race as antediluvian-Aryans who have lived for millennia underground, slowly but patiently waiting for the right moment to return to the surface and enslave the inferior humans living there.

With their superior genetic power, this transhuman race communicates directives telepathically onto automata servants, mediated by an etheric energy which Bulwer dubbed “vril”. Bulwer writes of his superior race saying:

“In all service, whether in or out of doors, they make great use of automaton figures, which are so pliant to the operators of Vril, that they actually seem gifted with reason. It was scarcely possible to distinguish the figures I beheld, apparently guiding or superintending the rapid movements of vast engines, from human forms endowed with thought.”

Bulwer-Lytton made it clear that the power of clairvoyance, telepathy, telekinesis and astral projection used by his Vril society was not the product of teaching but merely breeding of pure bloodlines. If the blood of higher nobility flows through the veins of a student, then they can be taught occult techniques to wield the vril (like the pure bloods in Harry Potter, or the special bloodlines of Jedi warriors in more recent lore). But a low-born has no chance to use the Vril force.  (more...)

Bulwer’s Dream and the Coming Race

Did British Intel Create Neo-Nazi Militia?

 

In mid-February, Berlin’s Junge Welt revealed how Centuria, an ultra-violent Ukrainian Neo-Nazi faction, has since the Russian invasion of Ukraine cemented itself in six cities across Germany, and is seeking to expand its activities across Europe, influencing populations and governments to adopt their horrendous worldview. Disturbingly, they’re not the only fascist militants from Kiev with major political and societal ambitions, going under the name of Centuria. As we shall see, there are strong indications the latter is the monstrous offspring of British intelligence.

The latter Centuria’s activities are outlined in a detailed report from George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES). It notes that the group’s parent organisation is a “self-described order of ‘European traditionalist’ military officers that has the stated goals of reshaping the country’s military along right-wing ideological lines and defending the ‘cultural and ethnic identity’ of European peoples against ‘Brussels’ politicos and bureaucrats’”:

“[Centuria] envisions a future where ‘European right forces are consolidated and national traditionalism is established as the disciplining ideological basis for the European peoples.’”  (more...)

Did British Intel Create Neo-Nazi Militia?

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Push to Erase Palestinians: Canadians Promoting Genocide

 

In the name of protecting Canadian Jews many are promoting the cultural and physical erasure of a faraway people.

Recently there’s been a push to suppress a traditional Palestinian garment. To the delight of many, the speaker of the Ontario legislature banned kaffiyehs from the provincial assembly. In a sign of support for this racist policy, prominent ‘progressive’ doctor and Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee, Nili Kaplan-Myrth, recently bemoaned a fellow trustee who “put on a keffiyeh”, making it “not safe for Jews”. Similarly, author Dahlia Kurtz posted about a friend who panicked when a worker at her child’s daycare had on a kaffiyeh and a similar thing happened when the president of a Canadian Union of Public Employees local wore the garment while addressing members. In a particularly odious expression of this thinking, right wing X account Love My 7 Wood quote tweeted a picture of a member of the Alberta legislature wearing a kaffiyeh noting, “She and her NDP colleagues wear that for one reason and one reason only. To intimidate Jews.” (To which I replied “All Palestinian culture exists for one reason and one reason only. To intimidate Jews.”)

Others have sought to erase Palestinian poetry. B’nai Brith recently gloated that they got a Toronto library branch to remove prominent poet Refaat Alareer’s “If I Must Die” from a display. Four months ago Alareer and five family members were wiped out by the Israeli military and on Friday they killed his daugher, her husband and their infant child.  (more...)

Push to Erase Palestinians: Canadians Promoting Genocide

Neglect, abuse, torture: The West is ignoring the fate of Palestinians stuck in Israeli jails

 

For over six months, the world has watched the devastating Israeli campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, which has killed over 34,000 people so far (including over 16,000 children).

Fewer are aware, however, of the nearly 10,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, many of whom have been repeatedly arrested and held for prolonged, indefinite periods. These include children, university students, medics, doctors, and journalists, among others.

While these numbers have increased dramatically in just over half a year, media coverage is scant, with the exception of some reporting on Layan Naser, one of the Christian university students re-imprisoned earlier this month. She was taken by Israeli troops from her family’s home in the early morning, with her parents held at gunpoint. But this is not an isolated phenomenon, she’s just one of many Palestinian students similarly abducted, ostensibly in the name of security, for taking part in campus activism.

On April 7, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs condemned the latest kidnappings of Layan Kayed and Layan Naser, two young women who have previously been targeted and imprisoned, along with multiple others.

The greater issue is that, as of April 17, which is Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, over 9,500 Palestinians are being held in Israeli prisons – roughly one third of whom are imprisoned under what is termed ”administrative detention” – a procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold people based on secret evidence, indefinitely and without trial.  (more...)

Neglect, abuse, torture: The West is ignoring the fate of Palestinians stuck in Israeli jails

Keffiyeh bans and the fragility of apartheid supporters

 

The moral panic over a simple piece of cloth is a defensive and paranoid response to Israel’s growing isolation

On April 25, independent Ontario MPP Sarah Jama wore a keffiyeh, a checkered scarf traditionally worn in parts of the Middle East, during question period in the Ontario legislature. Speaker Ted Arnott demanded that she leave. Jama refused, and according to CBC, “Arnott said he was not prepared to remove Jama by force.”

After the incident, the speaker’s office “named” Jama—who was elected in 2023 as the member of provincial parliament for Hamilton Centre with 54 percent of the vote—thereby restricting her ability to participate in the legislature. In Queen’s Park, Arnott explained: “As a result of being named, the member, for the reminder of the day, is ineligible to vote on matters before the assembly; attend and participate in any committee proceedings; use the media studio; and table notices of motion, written questions, and petitions.”

The speaker’s effort to punish Jama, followed by the naming, were justified on the basis that she violated the ongoing keffiyeh ban in the legislature.

The ban not only applies to elected officials, but also members of the public. Visitors have been refused entry solely because they were wearing keffiyehs.  (more...)

Keffiyeh bans and the fragility of apartheid supporters

MPP Sarah Jama calls the keffiyeh ban in the Ontario legislature anti-Palestinian racism & refuses to take it off. We spoke with her & the speaker after he asked her to leave the chambers. Full story: https://t.co/ENQ14cm1Rg pic.twitter.com/k6qYM2wCA4

— Tina Yazdani (@TinaYazdani) April 26, 2024

Israel will not stop Freedom Flotilla 2024

 

On April 27, 2024, after Guinea-Bissau acceded to Israel's request that it withdraw its flag from two of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla's vessels, organizers of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition held a press conference near Istanbul's historic Blue Mosque. There, after describing the extraordinary lengths to which Israel will go to deprive Palestinians of humanitarian aid, they declared that they will persevere.

Understanding the Venetian Hand Behind England

 

In this week’s episode of Breaking History, Gordon and Matt take a deep look at the Venetian Hand Behind England

Supplemental Reading

EIR: The Leibniz Revolution In America, 1727-1752  https://larouchepub.com/other/2004/3132leibniz_pfv.html

Leibniz, Not Locke, Inspired the Declaration of Independence http://american_almanac.tripod.com/leiblock.htm

Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ arrested following assault on Grayzone contributor

 

A Ukrainian show host from the US and EU-funded 'Stop Fake' organization, Marko Suprun, has been arrested after choking Grayzone contributor Moss Robeson. RT’s Steve Sweeney has the story.

Student protests could have economic impact

 

Political analyst Tamer Qarmout says university protests across the US could have a broad impact on the economy since the country’s future workforce are the ones criticising companies they may eventually work for.

“These are students of Ivy League universities, elite universities that provide the pipeline of employees for the same companies we’re talking about, the future leader of these companies. So it’s a critical juncture,” Qarmout, assistant professor in public policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, tells Al Jazeera.

When we see students who stand on principle values on ideas, you cannot buy this with money … it’s hard because this is a value system, you are in conflict with an entire value principle system that this these students present,” he added.

With eyes on US college campuses, students stress: ‘Gaza is why we’re here’

 

Global attention has turned to universities across the United States, where students have erected encampments to demand action to end Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera's correspondents report from different US universities' locations.

Students Are Taking the Lead in Denouncing Gaza Atrocities

 

Israel and its friends malign them as “antisemites”

If you were wondering why or how the mainstream media coverage of what is taking place in Gaza is so slanted as to make it look like a real war between two well-armed and competitive adversaries instead of a massacre of civilians, wonder no longer! A leak has exposed a New York Times internal document that provides editorial guidance about words that should not be used in any article relating to Gaza or to Palestine. They include “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” “occupied territory,” and even “Palestine” itself. The intent is clearly to eliminate any words with negative connotations what might be applied in some fashion to Israel and to what Israel is doing, even going so far as to not include any suggestion that Palestine itself might be considered a legitimate political entity. At the same time the media is letting be heard arguments that Israelis killing Palestinians is justified as they are all “terrorists,” even the little ones who will grow up to become enemies of Israel and Jews worldwide.

To a large extent, it is the Zionists themselves that created the need to censor the language being used to describe developments between Israel and its neighbors and that is because Israel, which de facto and illegally occupies all of historic Palestine, made itself de jure “the nation state of the Jewish people” back in 2018 in spite of its Christian and Muslim citizens which, at the time, amounted to something like 20% of the population. To put it simply, a Jewish state cannot also be a democracy for all of its citizens any more than the US can be a Christian state, so it is necessary to divert attention away from that paradox. And there are other degrees of unpleasantness that spring from that necessity, including the fact that devout Jewish believers actually do follow the ten commandments, including “Thou shall not kill!” while Israel has been doing nothing but killing since its foundation as well as plenty of violations of “Thou shall not steal” and “Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor!” So instead of behaving better and trying to live peaceably with its neighbors, the “Jewish state” opted instead to cultivate a partly mythical saga of victimhood referred to as the “Holocaust” and to label all of its lethal overreactions as legitimate “right to defend itself” responses.

This in turn has spawned another line of defense, what has become the virtual industry which might be referred as the pursuit of “antisemitism.” And to make it really dangerous for the average American citizens who still believe that it is possible to criticize the behavior of foreign countries, the chant of “antisemitism” has been picked up wholeheartedly by the politicians and it is being turned into laws particularly at state levels to punish people who attempt to criticize Israel. National level politicians in Congress are also submitting draft laws that would apply similar restraints throughout the country so it will inevitably be goodbye the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech.

The current unrest of pro-Palestinian “encampments” and “liberated zones” at 33 college campuses in the US protesting against what is clearly a genocide taking place in Gaza by calling for a ceasefire and a halt to institutional investment in Israel as well as a suspension of ties to Israeli government educational bodies. The movement is, as a consequence, being assiduously labeled a manifestation of “antisemitism” by Congress, by Joe Biden in the White House and by nearly all of the mainstream media.  (more...)

Students Are Taking the Lead in Denouncing Gaza Atrocities

Canada and Palestine: The War on Zionism

 

The Canada Files' bi-weekly show, "Canada and Palestine: The War on Zionism", is co-hosted by TCF EIC Aidan Jonah and Free Palestine TV Senior Director - Laith Marouf.

Show topics:

• - The evolving situation in Palestine,
• - Canadian elites' support to Israel,
• - Canadian resistance to this support.

The show touches on the status of Palestinian resistance, Israel's bombing of Iran's embassy in Syria, Ontario's Keffeyeh ban, attacks on a Nakba Remembrance Day and more.

Top Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ arrested for assault on Grayzone contributor

 

Marko Suprun, an influential NATO state-funded Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ with close ties to Nazi activists, was taken into police custody in Washington, DC, after assaulting a contributor to The Grayzone at an event hosted by a neocon Beltway think tank. 

The Ukrainian-Canadian host of a self-styled ‘anti-disinformation’ outfit — which receives thousands of dollars from the US and UK governments and works with Facebook to censor content — was arrested on Capitol Hill last week after assaulting a contributor to The Grayzone.

On April 16, Marko Suprun, who presents an English-language show for the group StopFake.org, and whose wife has served as Ukraine’s acting Minister of Health, was charged with simple assault after strangling, shoving, and stomping on Grayzone contributor Moss Robeson. The incident occurred during an anti-Russia event hosted by the neoconservative Jamestown Foundation, entitled “Russia’s Rupture and Western Policy.” Robeson was fully credentialed and authorized by organizers to participate in the discussion.

“This is the guy! This is the guy!” Suprun reportedly shouted, while forcing Robeson into the hallway, choking him with both hands, and pushing him to the ground, leaving his glasses broken.  (more...)

Top Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ arrested for assault on Grayzone contributor

Revolt in the Universities

 

University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and explusions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza.

Achinthya Sivalingam, a graduate student in Public Affairs at Princeton University did not know when she woke up this morning that shortly after 7 a.m. she would join hundreds of students across the country who have been arrested, evicted and banned from campus for protesting the genocide in Gaza.

She wears a blue sweatshirt, sometimes fighting back tears, when I speak to her. We are seated at a small table in the Small World Coffee shop on Witherspoon Street, half a block away from the university she can no longer enter, from the apartment she can no longer live in and from the campus where in a few weeks she was scheduled to graduate.

She wonders where she will spend the night.

The police gave her five minutes to collect items from her apartment.

“I grabbed really random things,” she says. “I grabbed oatmeal for whatever reason. I was really confused.”

Student protesters across the country exhibit a moral and physical courage — many are facing suspension and expulsion — that shames every major institution in the country. They are dangerous not because they disrupt campus life or engage in attacks on Jewish students —  many of those protesting are Jewish — but because they expose the abject failure by the ruling elites and their institutions to halt genocide, the crime of crimes. These students watch, like most of us, Israel’s live-streamed slaughter of the Palestinian people. But unlike most of us, they act. Their voices and protests are a potent counterpoint to the moral bankruptcy that surrounds them.  (more...)

Revolt in the Universities

Israel Safer Than Hampstead? Jews Stand Up And Call Out The Propaganda

 

Israel Safer Than Hampstead? Jews Stand Up And Call Out The Propaganda

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-24th-april-2024

• - The Telegraph: Britain’s Jews fear for their lives because Sir Mark Rowley is a weak coward (archived link)
• - LBC: Sunak 'appalled' by officer's threat to arrest Jewish man at pro-Palestine rally as calls mount for Met boss to quit
• - NPR: Concerns over antisemitism rise as Jews begin observing Passover 
• - Ynet: Number of Westerners seeking to make aliyah surges

Canadian state apparatus conspires with Zionist vigilantes to dox and spy on pro-Palestine community

 

A web of spying and doxing is being laid upon the pro-Palestine community in Canada.

Former leader of the Canadian chapter of an FBI-recognized terrorist organisation (Jewish Defence League) Meir Weinstein and far-right vigilante organisation ShomRim has converged to spy on the pro-Palestine community. Their latest target is Tara, a woman who they doxed by revealing her LinkedIn information, phone number, and address. They have even threatened to engage in illegal revenge porn against her and dox her in front of the whole pro-Palestine community. Zionist Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman has engaged in separate doxing towards the pro-Palestine community, and is even connected to ShomRim as well.

The far-right, pro-colonial forces that embody the inherent nature of Canada are now engaging in targeted offensives against the pro-Palestine community. They have started at vulnerable targets such as Tara, in order to send chills down the spines of the less committed, and perhaps less principled. When that fails, due to strong leadership, they will simply arbitrarily detain and concoct pretexts for other forms of pro-colonial repression and violence.

The Canada Files reached out to Tara after learning of her doxing by Meir Weinstein and his associates. According to Tara, as a single mother, she began to advocate for Palestine after seeing the horrors involved in Israel’s genocidal bombing campaign and siege. She then converted to Islam. Afterwards, she found herself in an online ‘flame war’ with Meir Weinstein, Joe Warmington, and a doctor from Texas named Gary Branfman after she posted a video denouncing Meir Weinstein’s slander about Tara's previously posted protest safety videos, and his generally violent, “every Jew with a .22” terror-linked history.

The most controversial events happened shortly after the illegal settlement sales controversies and exposes on the actions of the Zionist community during those protests.  (more...)

Canadian state apparatus conspires with Zionist vigilantes to dox and spy on pro-Palestine community

We must hold Guilbeault to account for supporting Israeli violence

 

As a long-time ecologist Steven Guilbeault knows we can’t overcome the climate crisis without just and equitable rules that apply to everyone no matter where they live on the planet. As a former Greenpeace spokesperson he knows militarism is extremely ecologically damaging. As a father, Guilbeault knows that killing 15,000 Palestinian children cannot be justified.

Still, Canada’s environment minister has supported one of the most horrific military onslaughts in recent memory. In fact, Guilbeault is in the cabinet of a government that has enabled Israel’s holocaust in Gaza.

The only public statement Guilbeault seems to have made regarding the conflict came soon after Hamas’ October 7 assault. On X he posted, “Canada condemns the violent terrorist attacks on Israel. Full stop.” It linked to a message from the prime minister noting, “Canada strongly condemns the current terrorist attacks against Israel. These acts of violence are completely unacceptable. We stand with Israel and fully support its right to defend itself.”

As Israel has “defended itself” by killing 40,000, Guilbeault has stayed mum. An individual who said I “came into politics so I could continue to be an activist” has ignored the many thousands who have marched in his riding over the past seven months. He has ignored a Laurier—Sainte-Marie Palestine solidarity group’s repeated appeals to support a long-term ceasefire and two-way arms embargo. Activists have also asked Guilbeault to raise his voice against Israel’s siege of Gaza and Canada’s complicity in Israel’s occupation, organizing multiple protests and town halls focused on the environment minister’s complicity in genocide. But he’s failed to even meet with organizers.

If the killing of over 15,000 Palestinian children isn’t enough to move Guilbeault, perhaps the ecologist could at least denounce the environmental devastation wrought by Israel’s war machine?  (more...)

We must hold Guilbeault to account for supporting Israeli violence

Exposing Kevin Vuong’s Pathetic Rebrand Attempt

 

Vuong seems to be attempting to make himself an attractive potential Conservative candidate by appealing to a key Toronto demographic

Prior to October 7, I knew independent Toronto MP Kevin Vuong as a scumbag. In the months since, Vuong has tried to rebrand himself, and his effort has been partly successful: I now know him as a Zionist scumbag. These are harsh words that some may balk at, but I think even worse descriptors are fair. 

To explain why, I’ll take you through how Vuong became an MP, a series of events that may be mentioned in civics courses well after he has otherwise been forgotten. This process includes what I consider to be the most shameful choice a Canadian politician has made in an election in my lifetime. It has only gotten worse since then, as I believe Vuong has used the genocide in Gaza as an opportunity to reshape his image in service of his political survival. 

This is a theory, but it’s supported by a close look at Vuong’s record and how the political climate in Canada has developed. I asked Vuong what he thought about the theory, but he didn’t reply.  

Vuong is just one of many Canadian politicians whose behaviour over the past few months warrants ridicule and condemnation, but given how unique his political career is, I think it’s worth spending some extra time on him. Also, whether he continues as an MP or not beyond the next election will say a great deal about the state of politics in Canada and the influence the Israel lobby has on it.  (more..)

Exposing Kevin Vuong’s Pathetic Rebrand Attempt

Did the Bible tell the US to support Israeli genocide?

 

Rick Sanchez takes a look at recent statements by US House Speaker Mike Johnson that the Bible told him to give full, unadulterated support to the state of Israel in its conflict in Gaza. Is that really true, and what kind of theology has led to this opinion being held by the majority of US evangelicals? And later on, the rising conflict between Elon Musk and the sovereign state of Australia. Who will win out? Big government or free speech? Rick is joined for all of this by professor and author Jeff Halper.

Library Association pulls award for RMC professor's book

 

The book has been criticized by a Jewish organization and Holocaust scholars who have raised concerns it whitewashes Nazi collaborators in Ukraine during the Second World War.

The largest library association in the world has pulled an award for a book co-edited by a Royal Military College professor over concerns it whitewashes Nazi collaborators and war criminals.

In late January, the American Library Association honoured the book, Enemy Archives, edited by Royal Military College professor Lubomyr Luciuk and Ukrainian historian Volodymyr Viatrovych, on its list of the best historical materials for 2022 and 2023.

But the book has been criticized by a Jewish organization and Holocaust scholars who have raised concerns it whitewashes Nazi collaborators in Ukraine during the Second World War.

The association has now retracted the award and is investigating how the book came to be honoured in the first place.

“We apologize for the harm caused by the work’s initial inclusion on the list,” Jean Hodges, director of communications for the library association, said in a statement.

“The committee will be reviewing the award manual and procedures,” she added.

Luciuk, in an email to this newspaper, noted the library association’s decision was “perplexing” and added that journalists should read the book lest they “misrepresent” it.

Viatrovych did not respond to requests for comment.  (more...)

Library Association pulls award for RMC professor's book

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Why Is the American Library Association Whitewashing the History of Ukrainian Nazis?

Pro-Palestine rallies used by political parties to bash opponents

 

The Washington establishment exploits the war in Gaza for political points with the deaths of innocent Palestinians used as an argument to bash opponents. RT’s Caleb Maupin explains.

Dozens arrested at pro-Palestine protests in US

 

Thousands of students have staged demonstrations in response to Israel’s assault on Gaza

US police arrested more than 80 protesters on Wednesday as part of a crackdown on pro-Palestine demonstrations which have gained momentum across American university campuses.   

A wave of demonstrations from Massachusetts to California began last week after students at New York’s Columbia University set up tent camps, demanding that universities cut ties to Israel and divest from companies allegedly contributing to the Gaza conflict. They also publicly called for a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave.

Companies being targeted include Amazon and Google, which are part of a $1.2 billion cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government. Microsoft, whose services are used by Israel’s Defense Ministry and Israeli civil administration, has also been condemned, as well as arms manufacturers profiting from the war such as Lockheed Martin.  

Students at schools including New York University, Harvard, and Yale demand that the US government “cease all funding for Israeli weapons and stop giving them any more money to continue this genocide,” Cameron Jones, part of Columbia’s Jewish Voice for Peace movement, said in a video statement on Wednesday.

Visiting the campus at Columbia on Wednesday, US House Speaker Mike Johnson denounced the protests as “mob rule” and condemned what he called a “virus of anti-Semitism” at colleges nationwide.  

“And it’s detestable, as Columbia has allowed these lawless agitators and radicals to take over,” he claimed, calling for the resignation of the university’s president.  (more...)

Dozens arrested at pro-Palestine protests in US

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Police Seek Criminal Charges Against Journalist Covering Gaza Protest

 

This is just the latest incident in the Montreal police’s well-documented history of attacking the free press.

Savanna Craig stayed up until dawn the first three nights after she was arrested.

Craig, a journalist, was detained while covering a protest. For a reporter to be detained while covering a protest isn’t unheard of in Canada, but they are usually released after identifying themselves as press. Sometimes, police even apologize for the inconvenience. 

But that’s not what happened this time.

The 27-year-old journalist was arrested on April 15 while covering a sit-in at the Scotiabank on McGill College Ave. Now, in what may be a first for the city, Montreal police are pursuing a charge of criminal mischief against her. It is the same charge facing 44 protesters who staged the sit-in to protest Scotiabank’s investment in Elbit — an Israeli defence contractor that is profiting from the war on Gaza.

If convicted, Craig could face up to two years in prison, be prevented from travelling outside of Canada and see her career go up in smoke just as it’s beginning. And while her lawyer says a conviction is unlikely, Craig is still having a hard time coping.

“Those first few nights, I just laid in bed and ruminated until 5 a.m.,” said Craig, who was on assignment for a Montreal-based outlet called Community University Television. “Could I have done anything differently? What’s going to happen to me? It’s scary to think where this could go.”  (more...)

Police Seek Criminal Charges Against Journalist Covering Gaza Protest

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Journalists in Gaza Are Dying at an “Unprecedented” Rate

Bringing it all back home

 

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the importance of Columbia U's Gaza encampment, the pro-Israel backlash against the growing protest movement, and apparent efforts to sabotage the demonstrations from within. They will also cover the vote by US Congress to spend $90 billion on disastrous conflicts in two theaters and a potential new one against China.

Behind Columbia University’s months of tension

 

Tensions have been mounting at Columbia University for months, even before the school called police to clear a Gaza solidarity encampment. Pro-Palestine students say the administration hasn’t prioritized their safety. In the first of a two-part series, The Take goes behind the protests at Columbia.

In this episode: 

• Asiya Ahmed, Senior Producer, AJ+
• Mohsen Mahdawi, Co-President, Columbia Palestinian Students Union
• Chris Mendell, Staff Writer, The Columbia Spectator

As Freedom Flotilla waits for Turkey's green light, survivors of Israel's genocide speak

 

On the evening of April 23, 2024, humanitarian activists learned that the departure of the Freedom Flotilla's emergency mission to Gaza had been delayed, yet again, by Turkey's Erdoğan government. When they gathered to receive the news of the delay, survivors of Israel's genocide in Gaza spoke of the horrors they experienced at the hands of the Western-backed Israeli regime.

A Zionist journey from claimed anti-racism to outright racism

 

Zionism has always been a racist, colonial, ideology and Israel has long practiced apartheid. But it’s taken the popular uprising against Israel’s holocaust in Gaza to fully expose its supporters’ racism. Few Canadians highlight this better than Warren Kinsella who long marketed himself as an anti-racist but now blames “multiculturalism” for protesters opposing genocide.

A long-time paid political operative, Kinsella has written books about Canada’s far right. In the mid 1990s he published Web of Hate: Inside Canada’s Far Right Network and a decade ago came out with Fight the Right: A Manual for Surviving the Coming Conservative Apocalypse. In 2019 he was reportedly hired by the Conservatives to paint People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier as a racist.

Canadian Anti-Hate Network founder Bernie Farber calls Kinsella a “friend”. In 2017 one of Farber’s groups had Kinsella moderate a panel with leading anti-racist writer Desmond Cole and National Council of Canadian Muslims executive director Ihsaan Gardee on “increased racist and xenophobic attacks”. In a sign of his standing with left activists at that time, Kinsella was also added to a private Toronto Facebook group set up to oppose overtly racist groups (I was also in this group until someone complained my criticism of the apartheid lobby was “antisemitic”).

But a significant contradiction was always there. While claiming to be an anti-racist activist, Kinsella actually spoke at a 2009 meeting of the far right, openly racist, Jewish Defence League. Seven years later he condemned Green Party members for opposing the explicitly racist Jewish National Fund and was previously on the board of the Canada-Israel Committee.

It has become steadily more difficult for Kinsella and other staunch Zionists to claim anti-racism. And over the past seven months it’s completely fallen apart.  (more...)

A Zionist journey from claimed anti-racism to outright racism

Student Encampments Resist for Palestine

 

Student protests in solidarity with Palestine have set up protests and encampments on campuses across the country from Columbia, NYU and the New School in New York to Berkeley, Stanford and Cal Poly Humboldt in California. Students are demanding that their universities - many of them among the most elite in the country with giant endowments - divest from weapons manufacturers and Israeli companies. They’re being met with fierce repression by police, but along with solidarity from faculty and supporters in their cities, the movement is continuing and growing.

Chris and Rachel have been on the ground at Yale and Columbia and talk about their experiences and what this means for the movement.

Seder in The (Schumer) Streets: Jewish Voice For Peace Protest

 

Katie will be live in an NYC studio anchoring a Jewish Voice for Peace rally taking place in Brooklyn. She will talk to reporters at the rally as well as talk to special guests including Susan Sarandon and Abby Martin.

Columbia, NYU, Yale on the boil over Israel’s war on Gaza

 

Protests in support of Palestine continue at university campuses across the United States, despite a crackdown by police. 

Hundreds of students and teachers have been arrested over the past week.

Canada To Host Tests Of Israeli Arms Tech Used On Palestinians

 

‘Any country importing weapons from Israel is complicit in the constant and total surveillance and control over Palestinian life.’

Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) will host trial sessions for Israeli arms technology used to kill Palestinians and maintain apartheid and occupation during a three-week “sandbox” event in Alberta next month.

From May 27 to June 21, DND is giving a select group of military suppliers the chance to test products that are designed to counter aerial drones, with direct assistance from Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) staff and experts. Among those selected is a company called “Twenty20 Insight Inc.,” which is testing the “Smash Hopper counter-drone weapon station.”

The “Smash Hopper” is a remote control weapon system developed and manufactured by Israeli arms company “Smart Shooter,” whose technology is deployed by the Israeli military in fortifications that are used to suppress Palestinian dissent in the occupied West Bank, as well as in military hardware currently being used in Israel’s assault on Gaza.

As reported by AP News in November 2022, Smart Shooter developed remote control turrets deployed by Israel that fire tear gas, stun grenades and sponge-tipped bullets at Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank.

Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, told AP: “This system will only [...] further grave Israeli human rights abuse and further the Israeli army’s abuses and the Israeli government’s crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against millions of Palestinians.”

Multiple international human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have accused Israel of maintaining a constitutionally entrenched system of apartheid over Palestinians. These findings echoed what Palestinians have long said about the reality of their lives under Israeli occupation.

That system is partly maintained through what Palestinians have described as an omnipresent and psychologically exhausting apparatus of high-tech Israeli surveillance.  (more...)

Canada To Host Tests Of Israeli Arms Tech Used On Palestinians

Another pro-Palestinian protest dispersed in New York

 

Multiple demonstrators have been arrested outside NYU business school, authorities have said

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters have gathered at New York University, with the rally later broken up by police who made a number of arrests, according to local officials and media reports.

NYU spokesman John Beckman said the demonstration kicked off on Monday morning on Could Plaza in front of the Stern School of Business and some 50 people took part, adding that this happened “without authorization.”

The officials at the institution put barriers in place to prevent anyone else from joining in “because the protests were already considerably disruptive of classes and other operations in schools around the plaza,” Beckman said.

According to CBS News, the rally appeared to be supported by some of the university’s students. It was also reportedly backed by several pro-Palestinian organizations which set up tents in the area.

One of the demonstrators said, as quoted by the network, that the protesters wanted NYU to acknowledge that “there is a genocide happening and that there are Palestinian students that deserve to feel heard.”  (more...)

Another pro-Palestinian protest dispersed in New York

Washington insiders now call it Epstein Island Large

 

The US government consists of 535 lobbyists, says Colonel Douglas Macgregor. All of them, with very few exceptions, are bought men.

The Zionist activists who collaborated with Nazis, and were executed by Jewish partisans

 

The Betar movement has ignored a melancholy chapter of its history that occurred in the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaust: the execution by Jews of other Jews who collaborated with the Nazis

When Lotek Salzwasser joined the partisans in the forests of Lithuania in the fall of 1943, he thought he had escaped certain death at the hands of the Nazis. He could never have imagined that death would come at the hands of other Jews, his comrades in the underground. Yet that is what happened. Abba Kovner, the commander of the underground in the Vilna ghetto, sealed Salzwasser’s fate after hearing testimonies that he had collaborated with the Nazis.

“Salzwasser reached the forest and some time later he was shot by order of the partisans’ command. They took him along on a supposed operation – and shot him,” says Miri Yahalom, an archivist at the Jabotinsky Institute who is doing research on the activities of the Revisionist Zionist movement and its youth wing, Betar, in the Vilna ghetto.

Salzwasser was not the only Jew who was suspected of colluding with the Germans and was killed by other Jews during the Holocaust. But his story caught Yahalom’s eye because he was a well-known Betar activist in Warsaw on the eve of the war – but after his execution, he was excised from the history books of that right-wing movement. Recently, Yahalom located a number of photographs from the period of Salzwasser’s activity in the movement, in the collection of the late partisan and historian Haim Lazar, himself a Betar man, who devoted himself to commemorating members of the movement in the Holocaust.

It wasn’t by chance, apparently, that the photos gathered dust in the archive for decades. They document a forgotten chapter, sensitive and bleak, in the annals of right-wing Jews in Vilna ghetto.

“Here, he has a face and he’s even photographed with the Betar commissioner in Poland,” Yahalom says emotionally, and adds, “Probably the members of his movement were ashamed of his deeds and decided to ostracize him.”

How did this come about?  (more...)

The Zionist activists who collaborated with Nazis, and were executed by Jewish partisans