Daily Archives: July 29, 2010

EDITORIAL: CANADA INVOKES SEMA AGAINST IRAN

I had never heard of the Special Economic Measures Act until Liberal Member of Parliament and Former Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler, who is the chair of the Responsibility to Prevent Coalition started...

The Nakba Obsession: The Palestinian national narrative is the biggest obstacle to peace in...

A specter is haunting the prospective Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations-the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the Arabic word is “disaster”; but in its current, expansive usage, it connotes a historical catastrophe inflicted...

Antisemitism and Introspection

Robert s. Wistrich This year, Tisha B'Av (the annual Jewish fast day commemorating the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem) once again reminded us of the dangers of “gratuitous hatred” without...