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

• A Tale of Two YMCAs (Part One)

• A Tale of Two YMCAs (Part Two)

• Trolling the Law Books to Find New Ways to Shut Down Critics of Israel

• Why “Bubble Zones” Are a Toxic Threat to Democracy: Hasbara cedes to Hashtakah

• Aren’t We Clever! Alas, Israel Is Too Clever by Half

• A new wolf in an old sheep’s clothing

  The Canadian Jewish Labour Committee past and present

• Settler colonial solidarity and me

A personal reckoning with how childhood lessons in empire and whiteness help explain Western loyalty to Israel

• Who can be a fascist? Let’s look to Mussolini’s Italy, then let’s look to Israel

Suffering under fascism in no way immunizes any group against falling for it

• Antisemitism is merely one of the forms of bigotry now proliferating

  So let’s fight together, not apart

• 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 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