My articles, mostly about Israel-Palestine issues (click to go to the original)

• Another NDP candidate bites the dust after specious accusations of antisemitism

  • And another foreign country is guilty of meddling in Canadian elections

• Attempt to censor Francesca Albanese part of larger Israeli campaign to hobble UN

  • Let’s call upon Bob Rae and the Canadian government to condemn the attempts by Israel and its supporters to incapacitate the UN

• Making accusations of antisemitism with hardly any facts

  • Larry Haiven on the media’s playbook for conflating hatred of Jewish people with legitimate and necessary criticism of Israel

• There are some ‘new mitzvot’ that many Jews follow—and they aren’t pretty

  • Israel’s attacks on Gaza present some new and ugly ‘commandments’ that too many Jews are now following, writes Larry Haiven

• Why I chant ‘From the River to the Sea’

• Falling Into the pro-Israel Trap: The La Presse Cartoon Scandal

• What Kind of Holocaust Education? Preventing Racism and Antisemitism

• The Real Masters of ‘Cancel Culture’ – The Pro-Israel Lobby

• What Really Happened at the Winnipeg Public Meeting Labeled Antisemitic?

• Banning Palestine support rallies. Could it happen in Canada?

  • Israel and its avid promoters have taken to waging an unrelenting, promiscuous and permanent war of position at every turn

• Hamas campaign recalls Tet Offensive: Could this also be a turning point?

  • As in Vietnam in 1968, the lessons are there to learn, if people are prepared to learn them

• What’s really going on in Israel’s political crisis?

  • Two rival blocs reflect the country’s deep ideological divisions

• Racialized are prime targets of pro-Israel attacks—and it’s deliberate

  • The ‘defend-Israel-at-all-costs’ industry has a racism and Islamophobia problem

• The cry gevalt syndrome: are Jewish students really ‘terrified’ on campus?

  • University campuses are places where contending views meet and clash. Pro-Israel organizations would seem to want the opposite

• The ‘terrorist’ smear: a settler-colonial ploy

  • “This is all about a brutal regime attempting to nullify any attempt by its subject population to resist military occupation”

• Feds’ proposal on Holocaust denial a very bad idea

  • Upcoming changes to Criminal Code could have ominous implications for free of speech

• What we are saying when we say ‘Zionist’

• Two very different Jewish responses to bigotry: One promoting solidarity, the other promoting insularity

• Federal election a good time to talk about Israel and Palestine

• Old blue eyes and new blue eyes

• Atlantic Jewish Council doesn’t speak for all Jewish Haligonians on pinkwashing