British researcher David Miller discusses the tribunal victory that recognised anti-Zionist views as protected beliefs, and elaborates on the historical and political intricacies of Zionism and anti-Semitism, highlighting the influence of Zionist organisations worldwide.
Miller also explores British involvement in Iran, the geopolitical dynamics of Zionist expansion, and the significance of Iran's resistance.
“Your media organization does not meet the CADSI Eligibility Requirements.”
Canada’s largest arms fair has refused media accreditation for multiple independent journalists and media outlets, including The Maple.
The CANSEC trade show, hosted by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI) at Ottawa’s Cohere Centre this Wednesday and Thursday, is an annual event that attracts hundreds of arms companies and dozens of Canadian politicians as attendees.
Keynote speakers at this year’s event include Defence Minister David McGuinty and Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, as well as former United States president Joe Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan.
The organizers state that they work with the Canadian government “to engage a diverse global community” and list the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces as their “strategic partners.”
The Maple applied for media accreditation for this year’s CANSEC, but received an email from CADSI’s press team explaining that: “We have reviewed your application and have declined it for the following reasons [...] Your media organization does not meet the CADSI Eligibility Requirements.”
CADSI did not respond to questions from The Maple asking for details about its eligibility requirements and why it believes The Maple did not meet them. The Maple requested the decision to be reviewed, but heard nothing further from CADSI. (more...)
CANSEC Arms Fair Bars Multiple Independent Journalists From Attending
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.
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) May 3, 2026
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Experts now suggest we "retire" the term superpower as concentrated power is no longer available to any one nation. Welcome to the post-primacy world, where influence is contested and rules are in flux.
The authoritarianism of the genocidal Jewish supremacist movement is stunning. According to Israel supporters it is antisemitic that Canada hasn’t criminalized a non-existent social justice group.
As Israel kills hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinians during ‘ceasefires’, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B’nai Brith have launched a push for Palestine Action Canada to be listed a terrorist organization. Last week The Canadian Jewish News reported, “Canadian Jewish groups call on government to designate Palestine Action as ‘terrorist entity’ Palestine Action Canada published a ‘target map’ identifying numerous institutions in Canada, Europe and the United States for ‘direct action.’”
Except Palestine Action Canada doesn’t seem to exist. An online search found little and there’s no evidence the group has carried out any action in Canada. On a global Palestine Action site there’s a “target map” with information on several hundred arms firms in dozens of countries across the world. There are ten firms listed in Canada. This appears to be the basis for which CIJA and B’nai Brith are calling for state authorities to ban Palestine Action Canada. A terror listing is supposed to require a thorough assessment by relevant security agencies (in practice, listings are highly political).
In the UK, Palestine Action was listed a terror group last year. Activists with the non-violent organization spray-painted facilities, disrupted activities and destroyed equipment at numerous arms firms. The listing by the British government was highly controversial. Some 3,000 people have been arrested opposing the ban on Palestine Action. In February the High Court ruled the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful and disproportionate (but did not immediately lift the listing, giving the government the right to appeal or rescind it.)
Despite its listing being legally overturned in the country in which it has been labelled a terror group and little sign of any operations in Canada, CIJA, B’nai Brith and others are demanding the banning of Palestine Action Canada. A paid ‘consultant’ of the genocidal Jewish supremacist lobby, Warren Kinsella, published a recent Toronto Sun column that begins “Why is Palestine Action allowed to operate in Canada? Why? It’s an important question…. For reasons that have not been explained by anyone in authority, Palestine Action are not considered a terror group by our government.”
Posting Kinsella’s article, Veterans For The Conservative Party of Canada Facebook group noted, “Of all the things I dislike about Carney and his government … his antisemitism has to be near the top. I am completely ashamed of his inaction against ‘Palestine Action’. It needs to be designated a terrorist group and routed out of Canada before something terrible happens.” (more...)
Authoritarian Zionists take dramatic turn to the absurd
Francesca Albanese is trying to stop a genocide. That is her crime.
The United States and Israel are trying to stop her – by destroying her life, her career, her family, and her voice.
The US has sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, 8 ICC judges, 3 court officials, and Palestinian human rights organisations Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and PCHR. The message is chilling: investigate genocide, speak up for international law, and we will destroy your life. Under Executive Order 14203, anyone collaborating with the International Criminal Court becomes a target.
"My commanders liked the fact I was a Nazi. They saw it as making me a better warrior."
Matt Kennard is a British investigative journalist who co-founded Declassified UK, and is also the author of Irregular Army. It’s a book that uncovers how the US military, desperate to fill its ranks during the War on Terror, began looking the other way on things that would once have disqualified soldiers from serving, such as neo-Nazi tattoos, gang affiliations, and mental illness.
In this conversation on Real Talk, Kennard speaks with Mohamed Hashem about the openly neo-Nazi veterans he met and interviewed, the moral waiver programme that opened the door to convicted felons, and the Rumsfeld Doctrine that was the catalyst.
This week, we are excited to introduce a new guest, former RCMP Complaints Commissioner, Shirley Heafey. She is joined by former RCMP Deputy Commissioner Curt Allen to discuss her career, her interactions with senior RCMP leadership, and her role in the Robert Dziekański case (where she assisted the responding officers, who were eventually exonerated by an OPP report on the incident).
Also discussed this week, the one year anniversary of the disappearance of Jack and Lilly Sullivan in rural Pictou County, and the latest RCMP statements. We also discuss the death of an inmate in custody, and the lack of information available for such situations. There was an emergency alert issued in Colchester County this week, near the area where the NS mass shootings took place, which is raising fresh questions about the lack of cooperation between the RCMP and Truro Police.
This week we welcome back former Halifax Police and RCMP officer, Calvin Lawrence, author of 'Black Cop', to discuss the new book by retired Toronto Police homicide detective Hank Idsinga. Idsinga has made allegations of anti-sematic racism at the highest levels of the Toronto Police service in national interviews this week.
Also, the NS government had committee hearings this week to discuss progress in the 25 recommendations for the Desmond Inquiry. Adam was counsel to the Desmond family during this Inquiry, and explains how the government and opposition parties are all missing the central issues of the Inquiry, relating to military medical records and PTSD in our soldiers.
Also discussed this week, we read two letters that we received after last week's NS Mass Shooting 6th anniversary show, one critical and one complimentary.
Finally, we give an assessment of the trial of William Majcher, the former RCMP officer charged under the Security of Information Act with attempting to assist the Chinese government in their efforts to bring a suspected fraudster back to China to face charges. A three week jury trial was reduced to a judge alone trial that lasted only a few days.
Microsoft and other American technology corporations successfully pushed the EU to adopt a confidentiality clause that blocks public access to environmental data from individual datacentres.
Microsoft and other US tech giants have effectively lobbied the EU to obscure the environmental impact of their data centers, with their demands to keep sustainability metrics out of public view written almost word for word into EU rules, The Guardian reported, citing an investigation.
The secrecy provision, which the European Commission added to its proposal nearly word-for-word following industry lobbying in 2024, prevents scrutiny of pollution emitted by individual datacenters. Researchers are left with only national-level summaries of energy consumption rather than facility-specific data.
The rapid expansion of AI chatbots has fueled a construction boom in chip-filled warehouses that consume massive amounts of electricity. A portion of that power demand is being satisfied by burning fossil gas.
Legal experts have raised concerns that the blanket confidentiality clause may violate EU transparency regulations and the Aarhus Convention, an international treaty guaranteeing public access to environmental information. (more...)
US tech giants lobbied EU to hide datacenter pollution data
Inside the PBCC, when abuse happens, it doesn’t get dealt with properly. It gets turned around, and you grow up being taught that if something went wrong, it must somehow be your fault. Even when you were a kid and had no power in the situation. That shame sticks, and it’s used to keep people quiet.
And if you don’t stay quiet, there are consequences. People get pushed out, cut off, talked about. Right now there are people who have come forward and aren’t even being allowed access to a psychologist. That alone should tell you what’s going on.
This isn’t just a few bad situations. It’s how it works. Protect the image, protect the institution, and deal with anyone who threatens that.
Something has to change. People deserve to be able to speak without losing everything. They deserve proper support, access to therapy of their choice, and real accountability.
Alex Gibney received 1,000 hours of secret police interrogation videos of Benjamin Netanyahu. Here’s what he found.
As the US is dragged into another foreign war, it's worth knowing about the man who forced us into it. Watch the film so revealing that it's banned in Israel.
The English Montreal School Board was ordered to retrain staff on its anti-bullying policy and students’ rights.
Royal West Academy has been rebuked by a provincial watchdog for suspending a student who posted “Fuck Israel. Holy shit” on her private Instagram last year.
Quebec’s student ombudsman has ordered the school and the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) to retrain relevant staff on the school board’s antibullying policy. It also demanded they review how to apply disciplinary sanctions in a way that respects students’ rights.
In a February ruling, the ombudsman overturned Royal West’s decision to punish a student because she used a curse word to criticize Israel on her private social media account. An administrator told the student, who we’ll call Dawn, that her post made Jewish classmates feel unsafe.
Dawn’s family challenged the decision before the ombudsman, who ruled in their favour late last month.
But while the EMSB responded to the ombudsman’s ruling on Feb. 27, it did not inform Dawn or her family. It only wrote an email to the student two weeks later, after her parents inquired about the case.
“Unfortunately, we neglected to forward the letter to your attention,” an employee on the EMSB wrote in an email to Dawn’s family.
Members of the group Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) protested outside EMSB’s head office on March 17, demanding the board publicly apologize to Dawn. They also denounced the school board’s participation in a fundraiser that would send three EMSB students to Israel as it wages a war that killed 1,300 Iranian civilians in less than a month. (more...)
Ombudsman Rules in Favour of Student Suspended for “F*ck Israel” Post
Germany’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism is driving a broader erosion of civil liberties and democratic standards. According to Timo Al-Farooq, measures targeting Palestine solidarity are expanding into wider repression of dissent across society.
In terms of civic freedoms, last year ended on yet another low note for Germany.
As the criminal Israeli regime’s most loyal fixer in Europe throughout the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the Federal Republic remains hellbent on sacrificing its liberal democracy on the altar of what Columbia University professor Joseph Massad has described as the “genocidal cult of Zionism.”
In December, the Johannesburg-based CIVICUS Monitor downgraded Germany’s civic space from “narrowed” to “obstructed,” citing state repression against Palestine solidarity as the core reason.
The authors decry that “German authorities have continued to severely restrict the right to protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people” and that they react to any “perceived breach of overly broad protest restrictions” with “severe police brutality, including kettling, pepper spraying, punching and choking.”
The report also identifies the weaponisation of antisemitism as a key strategy to silence anti-genocide voices.
“Instead of supporting those advocating for human rights, Germany has conflated anti-Israel criticism with antisemitism, chilling speech nationwide, emboldening the right, and silencing civil society voices,” the group’s Europe researcher said.
This is the second downgrade in two years after CIVICUS changed Germany’s status from “open” to “narrowed” in 2023 as a result of its crackdowns on pro-Palestine protests in the first three months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. (more...)
Anti-Palestinian repression remains the driving force behind Germany’s democratic decline
Does the Christian catechism require loyalty to Benjamin Netanyahu? Apparently it does, as Carrie Prejean Boller learned the hard way.
The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on display.
On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East (Jewish Voice, for short) should be banned. Pointing out that it is already classed as “a certified extremist organization by the Verfassungsschutz” (Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, equivalent to the FBI), he called it “not a voice of peace, but a voice of hatred” because it “vilifies [Israel] as a terrorist state.”
The timing of Becker’s rant is piquant in view of the near-simultaneous paperback publication of Germany’s Jewish Problem by Wieland Hoban, Anglo-German chair of Jewish Voice, a book in which these (mostly non-Jewish) commissioners feature prominently and unflatteringly.
Hoban is a prolific translator of texts by, among others, Theodor Adorno, Peter Sloterdijk and Jürgen Habermas – ironically enough, German philosophers not known for progressive views on Palestine.
He is also a composer, in which capacity he witnessed Germany’s cancel culture firsthand in 2018 when his proposal for an Israel-critical composition provoked Björn Gottstein, the then director of the Donaueschingen Music Festival, to explain that “although [he] gave composers a free hand in their use of political content, he would not tolerate any criticism of Israel.” As a fellow composer and activist, I wrote about this in The Electronic Intifada at the time. (more...)
Holocaust remorse rings hollow in Germany
Data shows Gaza protesters faced harsher punishments than Black Lives Matter protesters did just a few years ago. Experts tell Mondoweiss this is the result of pro-Israel bias and a backlash against protest movements that has been building for years.
Protests over the unfolding genocide in Gaza erupted across the U.S. in 2023, quickly becoming the largest mass demonstration since Black Lives Matter a few years earlier. In both cases, the protest movements took aim at state violence and oppression against marginalized groups.
Deeper scrutiny of the protests and law enforcement response reveals how the U.S. government at all levels has escalated its repressive tactics during the last five years. One telling statistic shows how a strong majority of cases filed against Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 were dropped or dismissed, but the crackdown on Gaza demonstrators has grown even more draconian and resulted in harsher punishments.
Why is this?
While the protest movements’ contexts preclude a direct apples-to-apples comparison, around 100 legal observers and attorneys who discussed the issue with Mondoweiss say the escalation reflects pro-Israel bias in the political system, a strengthening of anti-protest tactics, and a conservative shift in the nation’s attitude about law enforcement.
The shift is part of a broader pattern of political opponents to social justice movements building upon anti-protest strategies across Standing Rock, Black Lives Matter, Cop City, and Gaza protests, said Stefanie Fox, executive director of Jewish Voice For Peace.
The goal, civil rights advocates say, is to silence dissent.
“It is clear evidence of an escalating war on protest that the right wing has been waging for the past few decades,” said Fox, who protested at Standing Rock. She sees “vestiges of lawfare to take down water protectors at Standing Rock directly being used against anti-genocide protesters.”
“And the Gaza protests will be used by the right to sharpen new tools that will then be used against all of our communities and all social movements,” Fox added. The theory is supported by the escalation of tactics against ICE protesters currently being witnessed in Minneapolis and elsewhere. (more...)
“The Voice of Hind Rajab,” like all great pieces of art, takes a straightforward story — the battle to save the life of a 6-year-old girl, Hind Rajab, trapped in a car in Gaza surrounded by murdered family members — and elevates it to an archetype. This story is as old as time. It lies at the heart of all religious and moral literature. It pits the cruelty and heartlessness of power against the empathy and compassion of the powerless. It asks us what kind of a life we want to live. Is it a life defined by hubris, domination and violence? Or is it a life defined by compassion, justice and self-sacrifice? These are moral, not political questions.
To nurture, preserve and protect the lives of those demonized in war is to be branded a traitor — a subversive, the enemy. It is to risk death. War, and especially genocide, is the quintessential expression of what Sigmund Freud called Thanatos, the death instinct that drives humans towards the destructions of others and themselves. Those who fight for Eros, for life, are eliminated. This schism is at the core of the film. It is the struggle between good and evil, light and dark. And, as so often happens in war, Thanatos prevails. This almost certain defeat gives unquestioned nobility to those who defy the forces of death.
Israel and its supporters do not want the outside world to see the bureaucratic machinery that perpetuates its mass slaughter, but I suspect, even more, it does not want the world to see the humanity of the Palestinians who resist.
It was hard to find a screening. I traveled for over an hour to see it at the Film Forum in New York City, which had just one showing at 4:45 in the afternoon. I understood why. Despite critical acclaim, an Oscar-nominated director and industry heavyweights like Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix behind it, the film — directed by Tunisian filmmaker, Kaouther Ben Hania —faced major difficulties in getting an American distributor — reportedly out of “fear” and disagreement “with the film’s politics,” according to a report by Deadline.
It is not only devastating, not only a cinematic masterpiece, but it rips back all the layers of rhetoric and propaganda to expose the fundamental struggle between the Israeli occupier and the occupied. The struggle is, yes, a conflict about the theft of Palestinian land. It is, as well, a conflict about a violent and lethal occupation, one that has become full-blown genocide in Gaza. But it is also the ancient struggle between the forces of life and death. (more...)
The Voice of Hind Rajab: The Film They Don’t Want You to See
