Why won’t Canadian military cut Trump-led US ties?

 

As Trump once again threatens to destroy all of Iran, Canadian politicians won’t even condemn the US president’s rhetoric, let alone push to reduce military ties. And in an embarrassing turn, the annexationist president is the one who has paused a major bilateral military accord.

Just before speaking with an Israeli Prime Minister pushing to restart a full-scale war against the country of 93 million, Donald Trump posted on Sunday “For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!” A week ago, the leader of the only country ever to have employed nuclear arms suggested he might employ these horrific weapons again saying, “If there’s no ceasefire you’re just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran.”

In a prior example of rhetoric even supporters of the US/Israeli aggression ought to denounce, Trump said, “If they don’t sign this deal, the whole country is going to get blown up.” That same day the president posted to Truth Social, “the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” A week beforehand Trump threatened “a whole civilization will die tonight never to be brought back again” and then declared “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.”

To the best of my knowledge the last time any Canadian politician directly condemned Trump’s unhinged rhetoric was after he threatened to destroy “a whole civilization”. And even then, it was mostly NDP representatives who didn’t demand any concrete action.  (more...)

Why won’t Canadian military cut Trump-led US ties?

Scandal boosts efforts to stop tax subsidies for Israel

 

The Kars4Kids scandal comes at a difficult time for the genocide lobby and boosts rapidly growing efforts to curtail Canada’s most important contribution to Palestinian dispossession.

On The National Friday CBC reported on a legal ruling in California to ban the Kars4Kids jingle for violating false advertising laws. The registered charity operates a car donation service supposedly “to fund educational, developmental, and recreational programs for low-income youth.” In fact, the money is used by an Orthodox Jewish group running camps exclusively for Jewish youth in New Jersey and Israel as well as Middle East lobbying efforts and sending US teenagers to Israel.

According to CBC, Kars4Kids Canada transferred $12.6 million to the US and Israel in the 2024-25 fiscal year. In October Just Peace Advocates submitted a formal complaint to the CRA regarding Kars4Kids’ registered charity (Oorah Charitable Organization). It notes that there’s “no indication of any funds to Canadian programs despite advertising suggesting helping children. Donors would expect their donations to be used in Canada and certainly would not expect the funds to go to one religious group.” The submission ads that the “funds going to Israel are not for children but for post-secondary programs” and questions whether they are being used to support illegal West Bank colonies and the Israeli military.

The publicity about Kars4Kids comes at an inopportune moment for the genocidal Jewish supremacist lobby. Over the past two weeks they’ve been screaming about how they are victims because there’s been an effort to press the CRA to apply its rules to 11 school charities assisting the Israeli military. In response to a report/email campaign submitted to the CRA calling for an investigation into 11 schools, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, B’nai Brith and others claimed applying the rules would “erase Jewish life in Canada.” Liberal MP Anthony Housefather even stood before Parliament to demand his government intercede to ignore the law.

After two weeks of complaining, CIJA instigated an email campaign to the CRA responding to the Just Peace Advocates led report/email campaign. The CIJA letter doesn’t say “don’t investigate charities potentially violating CRA rules”, but that is effectively their message.  (more...)

Scandal boosts efforts to stop tax subsidies for Israel

The money from Kars 4 Kids all went to a Jewish organization called “Oorah.”

This is a REAL video on the REAL “Oorah” YouTube channel, lol. https://t.co/D9xMhcTQz5 pic.twitter.com/2hdbCPGX29

— Vincent James (@davincentjames) May 19, 2026

Mark Carney Should Call For Prosecution of Israeli Minister: Expert

 

“If Canada believes that such behaviour is ‘unacceptable’ it should prove it.”

Canada and its allies should sanction Israel and call for the prosecution of its minister who posted a video of himself tormenting detainees arrested for trying to deliver aid on board a flotilla to Gaza, human rights experts say.

“If Canada believes that such behaviour is ‘unacceptable’ it should prove it,” Mark Kersten, an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice who has written a book about the International Criminal Court (ICC) told The Maple by email.

“That means actually doing something, not just saying something. Too often in the wake of such events, Canadian officials denounce them and then move on,” he said.

On Wednesday, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s minister of national security, posted a video to X with the caption, “Welcome to Israel.”

The clip shows a female activist shout, “Free, Free Palestine.” A man in a mask then grabs the activist by the back of her head and pushes her to the ground.

Ben-Gvir walks by, smiling. The minister also waves the Israeli flag while the activists kneel on the ground with what appear to be zip ties bounding their wrists.

Ben-Gvir is also shown chanting “Am Yisrael Chai,” or “the nation of Israel lives,” at a detainee who has his hands bound.

The video also shows Israeli troops pulling and dragging detainees, who are hunched over facing the ground.

According to a statement from the flotilla organizers, 12 Canadians were among those captured by Israeli forces.  (more...)

Mark Carney Should Call For Prosecution of Israeli Minister: Expert

ככה אנחנו מקבלים את תומכי הטרור

Welcome to Israel 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/7Hf8cAg7fC

— איתמר בן גביר (@itamarbengvir) May 20, 2026

EU elites have caused ‘unimaginable damage’ – ex-Polish PM

 

Leszek Miller has lashed out at Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas, and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel have done “unimaginable damage” to the EU through a series of disastrous policies, former Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller has said.

Miller, who was responsible for Warsaw’s 2004 accession to the EU, took to X on Tuesday after Merkel received the newly created European Order of Merit award, presented to her by von der Leyen during a ceremony in Strasbourg.

“Merkel and von der Leyen are two German women who have caused unimaginable damage to the European Union. I hope that justice will still catch up with them,” Miller wrote.

Merkel led Germany from 2005 to 2021 through multiple crises. Among her most divisive policies was the decision to admit large numbers of asylum seekers during the 2015 migration crisis.  (more...)

EU elites have caused ‘unimaginable damage’ – ex-Polish PM

U.S. Pauses Key Defence Accord Despite Carney’s Military Spending Hike

 

U.S. undersecretary claimed Canada “has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments.”

United States President Donald Trump’s Undersecretary of War Elbridge Colby announced yesterday that the Americans will be pausing a joint defence policy board because he claimed Canada “has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments.”

This is despite the Mark Carney government’s promises to spend an additional $81.8 billion on the military over the next five years and to reach the Trump regime’s demand that all NATO members spend 5 per cent of their GDPs on the military by 2035.

For Canada, that figure amounts to $150 billion in annual spending on the military and related infrastructure.

Writing on X, Colby said: “A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments. DoW is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense.”

“We can no longer avoid the gaps between rhetoric and reality. Real powers must sustain our rhetoric with shared defense and security responsibilities,” he added, including a link to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos in January, in which he spoke of the fading “rules based order.”

The Permanent Joint Board on Defense was established during the Second World War in 1940 and constitutes a key piece of Canada’s deep military integration with the U.S.  (more...)

U.S. Pauses Key Defence Accord Despite Carney’s Military Spending Hike

Muzzling goes to new extremes on US campuses

 

Does Vietnam still haunt Americans? Forever wars in the Middle East and Donald Trump’s war of aggression against Iran – which began with the killing of scores of young school children in Minab before moving on to casual threats of genocide from the US president – suggest otherwise.

Americans continue to vote for leaders who enmesh them in imperial undertakings that eviscerate the populations of targeted countries and leave the American soldiers participating with devastating physical and psychological scars.

I thought in recent days of the war crime perpetrated by Vietnam veteran Bob Kerrey, the former president of The New School as well as former Democratic governor and US senator for the state of Nebraska. His former university has recently received attention for Palestine-related efforts in the student senate and the resulting backlash against the attempt to stop student and university complicity in Israel’s Gaza genocide.

In 2001, The New York Times Magazine reported on Kerrey’s involvement in the 1969 massacre at Thanh Phong.

Gregory L. Vistica wrote of the massacre that “around midnight on Feb. 25, 1969, Kerrey and his men killed at least 13 unarmed women and children. The operation was brutal; for months afterward, Kerrey says, he feared going to sleep because of the terrible nightmares that haunted him.”

Other reports put the number of civilians killed at 20 and emphasize that Kerrey only spoke of his being “haunted” by the incident after decades of silence, suggesting political expediency. Bao Anh Thai, a lawyer in Vietnam, wrote on Facebook of Kerrey’s 2016 appointment to be chair of the board of Fulbright University Vietnam: “Please tell me the name of any prestigious university in this world, where a killer in cold blood of women and children – he admitted it and he is not charged for it – could be the president.”

The New School answered that question years earlier, part and parcel of a country that has never properly reckoned with the war crimes its military has committed.  (more...)

Muzzling goes to new extremes on US campuses

At a time when antisemitism remains prevalent on campuses, the New School Student Senate’s vote to defund Hillel was obscene. Though the school’s reversal is welcome, the initial vote signaled more than insensitivity - it reflected hostility toward Jewish student life.

Every… https://t.co/ARbT6TcaP3

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) May 3, 2026

How Gaza is exposing Germany’s ‘never again’ myth

 

Germany’s unconditional support for Israel has been an easy way to avoid examining our brutal past. The colossal weight of the ongoing genocide in Gaza is crushing our facile myths and forcing us to re-examine our historical dogma.

We Germans live in a reality shaped by our genocidal history. But while the national narrative of “collective guilt” for the Holocaust is omnipresent, German lived experience exposes this as more myth than reality. With our performative “commemoration culture,” we instrumentalize the Holocaust to distance ourselves from our past, to deflect from our current far-right problems, and to rebrand ourselves as a champion of morality. A central part of crafting our self-serving image, our “genocide hubris,” is our current unquestioning support of Israeli war crimes, a hubris that has crumbled under the weight of our complicity in the Gaza genocide.

I loved growing up in West Germany of the 1980s and early ‘90s. As a half-German, half-French child, I only had a vague conception of nationality, or of why I should be proud of being what my passport says I am. Thus, I was happy that Germany appeared different from other countries, seemingly less concerned with national pride. That, after two catastrophic World Wars, we didn’t have to have our flag plastered everywhere like the Americans. We were reformed, we were sober now. No more nationalism, no more wars, and no more genocide. If we were proud to be German, it was because we were proud of our “constitutional patriotism” and our new, postwar humanistic values.

In German childhoods, our recent history loomed large. We knew how Germans had been sadistic, hateful, even genocidal in the past. We knew why movie supervillains, from Dr. Strangelove to Hans Gruber, were naturally German. In school, we learned everything about the genocide of the Jews, with footnotes on the Romani genocide, Aktion T4, and – since I went to a Catholic school – the persecution of the Catholic church. (No mention of the countless Slavic victims of Nazi Germany, however, those remained firmly below the awareness threshold.) A Holocaust survivor came to school to give us a first-hand account of the unspeakable horrors that the Jewish people had been subjected to. We read Anne Frank. We memorised Paul Celan’s Holocaust poem “Todesfuge,” with the haunting refrain that “Death is a master from Germany.” We saw Schindler’s List on a school trip to the cinema. We saw the first “Stolpersteine” memorials being installed in the ‘90s. Our school theatre performance was – naturally – Eugène Ionesco’s Nazi allegory, Rhinocéros. When our final high school trip took us to Prague, we made the obligatory, gut-wrenching stop at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

The lesson couldn’t be clearer: we, as a people, had committed the ultimate sin, and we had to be thoroughly educated to ensure it would never happen again.

And yet, while I was growing up, current affairs were more “again and again” than “never again,” as an endless string of neo-Nazi terrorism echoed uncomfortably the late Weimar Republic  (more...)

How Gaza is exposing Germany’s ‘never again’ myth