Despite the language featured in our own founding documents, the U.S. has aided Israel in denying those same guarantees of human rights and dignity to Palestinians for decades.
KITCHENER, Ontario --- (Analysis) The establishment of the state of Israel is known throughout Palestine as the Nakba, or “Catastrophe.” As the British Mandate of Palestine ended throughout 1947 and 1948, at least 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from
In 2007, it was professional suicide to vocalize criticism of Israel’s apartheid policies that deny basic human rights to the Palestinian population. By 2014, however, this wasn’t necessarily the case.
KITCHENER, Ontario --- (Analysis) When Prof. Steven Salaita was denied a tenured position he’d been offered at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, due to his public criticism of Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014, it made
Congress and Reagan voted to impose sanctions against the apartheid state of South Africa, but what’s stopping our elected representatives from taking the same action against the apartheid state of Israel?
KITCHENER, Ontario --- (Analysis) In 1948, the same year as the founding of the state of Israel, South Africa made a policy of apartheid the law of the land. This policy of racial discrimination
Knowledge is power. And the more Israel publicly decries the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, the more the public is exposed to the atrocities that inspired it in the first place.
KITCHENER, Ontario --- (Analysis) From September 2000 to February 2005, more than 3,200 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during the Second Intifada, or Palestinian uprising. From June to October 2004 alone, Israeli forces launched
As the U.S. struts across the world stage, forcing its peculiar brand of democracy upon its unsuspecting, often oil-rich, victims, it deprives its own soldiers of the rights it purports to be spreading.
KITCHENER, Ontario --- (ANALYSIS) U.S. government officials often pay lip service to praising members of the military. They talk of heroism, courage, selflessness -- fine virtues which many people, not only soldiers, possess. These officials, they tell the world, send their hapless soldiers all over the globe to grant unsuspecting victims the same
The pompous pronouncements of the armchair warriors who run the country and the corporate-owned media hold dangerous sway in deciding that Sen. John McCain is a hero and Bowe Bergdahl is a traitor.
KITCHENER, Ontario --- (ANALYSIS) In 2009, Bowe Bergdahl, an idealistic but disillusioned U.S. Army sergeant, left his post in Afghanistan and, without any weaponry, walked into the night where he was quickly captured by the
Perhaps the notion of U.S. exceptionalism shouldn’t be derided as a myth. Indeed, the U.S. is exceptional in the violence it perpetrates upon innocent people around the world.
KITCHENER, Ontario --- (OPINION) On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech in which he discussed the violence he saw in the streets of the United States and the violence of the Vietnam War. He described meeting with “desperate, rejected,
