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Time for Action: Promoting Israeli Apartheid in Canadian Schools Must be Challenged

June 22, 2023

By Yves Engler The Palestinian solidarity movement must seek to disrupt the ‘school to apartheid promotion pipeline’. It’s past time to challenge private schools indoctrinating young minds into worshiping a violent faraway state that oppresses millions. […]

Roger Waters is a Principled Rock Star to Be Emulated Not Smeared

June 5, 2023

By Yves Engler Attacks against Roger Waters are shameful. If more rock stars and celebrities were engaged like him, the world would be a fairer place. The Toronto Star’s recent attacks against Roger Waters are […]

Hypocritical Outrage: What’s Wrong with Burning Flag of an Apartheid State?

May 1, 2023

By Yves Engler We are supposed to be outraged by a teenager burning Israeli flags but ignore a publicly funded school indoctrinating six and seven-year-olds to worship a faraway apartheid state. On Wednesday a Montréal […]

Canada Criticizes Russia’s Bombing of its Neighbors: But What about Israel?

April 13, 2023

By Yves Engler Canada claims to be a supporter of rules-based international order, but its record of supporting Israel in breaking these rules is long and spans the entire existence of that state. While the innumerable […]

Time to Challenge Canadian Schools’ Anti-Palestinian Racism

March 10, 2023

By Yves Engler While Jewish settlers launch pogroms and Israeli ministers call to “wipe out” Palestinian towns, Canadian schools suppress Palestinian symbols and celebrate colonial violence. Last week Park West School in Halifax forced a […]

‘A Regime of Jewish Supremacy’: Time to Use Words of Israel’s B’Tselem

January 27, 2023

By Yves Engler The foreign affairs critic of Canada’s social democratic NDP, Heather McPherson, recently published a statement critical of the aggressively racist new Israeli government. It decried “rising anti-Semitism” but ignored Jewish supremacy. But this is […]

Dear Editor, Writing ‘Palestinians Don’t Exist’ is Supporting Genocide

December 31, 2022

By Yves Engler The double standard is startling. A publisher whose newspaper is accused of making a questionable link to a horrific 80-year-old crime must be denounced by everyone who attended a large event, but […]

Protesting ‘Violent Settler Colonialist’ Regavim is Not Antisemitic

December 23, 2022

By Yves Engler Has the extreme right gone mainstream in Canada’s pro-Israel community? A number of prominent figures in Toronto’s Jewish establishment have rallied to support a “settler colonial NGO” set up by a racist […]

Israeli Apartheid Defenders in Canada Attack Green Leader May

December 10, 2022

By Yves Engler The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs’ recent attack against Elizabeth May is farcical. Canada’s leading mouthpiece for Israel criticized the Green Party leader for saying she takes her direction from the […]

PC Contributor Yves Engler: How I Was Assaulted, Again, for Disrupting Anti-Palestinian Event (VIDEO)

November 16, 2022

By Yves Engler On Sunday, Canadian activist Bill Sloan and I interrupted a Technion Canada fundraiser to challenge its support of the Israeli military and the role of government-subsidized charities in promoting Israeli apartheid. After […]

How I Was Assaulted and Illegally Detained for Interrupting Anti-Palestinian Speaker (VIDEO)

November 11, 2022

By Yves Engler On Monday, I registered for a public talk with anti-Palestinian activist Hillel Neuer in Montreal, Canada. After receiving my electronic confirmation, I headed to the venue with the intention of challenging his […]

Action Please: Media Must Cover Illegal Military Recruitment Story

October 28, 2022

By Yves Engler Violating the law by directly assisting a military enforcing apartheid seems of little interest to English Canada’s major media unless they can celebrate it. Recently a Justice of the Peace accepted there […]

Recruiter of ‘Volunteers’ for Israeli Military to Face Charges in Canada

September 29, 2022

By Yves Engler In a sign of the brazenness of Israel’s supporters, the lead organ of Canada’s Jewish community has long received funds from and supported an organization whose raison d’être likely breaches Canadian law. […]

Confronting Israeli Apartheid, Zionist Propaganda in Montreal

September 17, 2022

By Yves Engler Montréal is a bastion of Israeli nationalist ideology. People of conscience must disrupt their activities, confronting the reality of Palestinian dispossession and apartheid. At the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, […]

McGill-Tel Aviv University Partnership: Why I Interrupted Major Funding Announcement

September 2, 2022

By Yves Engler On Wednesday, August 31, I interrupted a major funding announcement at McGill to ask the head of the university about her suppression of Palestine solidarity. As she spoke from the Faculty Club’s […]

Condemn Latest Israeli Attack on Gaza, Canadian Complicity

August 6, 2022

By Yves Engler Israel has attacked Gaza again and it is time Canadians understood their country’s contribution to the brutal treatment of those living in the 360 square kilometer strip of land. On August 5, […]

B’nai Brith’s Lawsuit Attacks Campus Free Speech, Student Democracy

August 1, 2022

By Yves Engler On Wednesday B’nai Brith announced a lawsuit against McGill University, Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) and student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). The apartheid lobby group is angry that […]

Zionist Double Standard: Why Public Supporters of Israel Should Expect to Be Criticized

June 18, 2022

By Yves Engler Liberal MP Ya’ara Saks is claiming to have been the victim of “hate” when young people yelled, “stop supporting the killing of Palestinians”. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Friends of […]

Canada: NDP on the Right Track, but More to Be Done

June 5, 2022

By Yves Engler Over the past year, the New Democratic Party’s Palestine policy has dramatically improved. It could portend a decisive break from the Canadian social democratic party’s anti-Palestinian history. Recently, NDP foreign affairs critic […]

Crazed Israel Defenders Slander Critics, Ignore the Crime

May 20, 2022

By Yves Engler If soldiers of some country — say Russia, Canada, or USA — are suspected of killing a journalist covering a story, reasonable people around the world rightly express outrage at the country […]

McGill University Administration Amps up Anti-Palestinian Campaign

May 7, 2022

By Yves Engler The McGill administration and Israel lobby have waged a multiyear campaign against student democracy and Palestinian solidarity and recently threatened the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) financial arrangement after students voted […]

Liberal Budget Funds Apologists for Israeli Crimes

April 21, 2022

By Yves Engler As more and more Canadians, including university students across the country, oppose Israel’s apartheid policies, the Liberals devoted millions of dollars in the recent federal budget to strengthen anti-Palestinian forces. They put […]

Time to End Canadian Taxpayer Subsidies for Israeli Apartheid

February 11, 2022

By Yves Engler Amnesty International’s recent conclusion that Israel is committing “the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” should galvanize opposition to Canada’s most significant form of support for the “apartheid” state. Some 200 registered Canadian charities […]

Time to Revoke Charitable Status from Canadian Group Funding Israeli Military

January 16, 2022

By Yves Engler The Canadian Zionist Cultural Association (CZCA) was caught supporting a foreign military in violation of charity law. But it’s unclear if the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) will apply its rules to the […]

Let Us Count the Ways Canada Supports Israel’s Crimes

December 30, 2021

By Yves Engler One of the most disingenuous arguments made by Canadian apologists for Israeli crimes is that it is irrelevant what transpires here. If they genuinely believed this why seek to squash support for […]

Yes Ms. Diplomat, Canada Does Arm and Fund Israel

December 19, 2021

By Yves Engler Did Canada’s representative to the Palestinian Authority lie or was she simply ignorant of important facts? On Wednesday Robin Wettlaufer criticized Electronic Intifada editor Ali Abunimah for tweeting that Canada “arms and […]

Toronto District Schools: It is Time to Challenge Israel’s Lobby Racism

November 19, 2021

By Yves Engler Executive officer at the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (Toronto) Jason Kunin recently posted to Facebook: “It seems that as a result of Desmond Cole’s unscripted calls of ‘Free Palestine’ during a […]

Canadian Taxpayer-Subsidized ‘Charities’ Push Israeli University-Military Ties

November 9, 2021

By Yves Engler Researching registered charities is a window into the pathology of Canadian Zionism. The number, variety and sums raised by taxpayer-subsidized groups focused on Israel is remarkable. Does a country with a GDP per […]

The ‘Cancel Culture’ of Israel Lobby in Canada

October 22, 2021

By Yves Engler The Israel lobby regularly torments people and seeks to undermine their ability to make a living. While increasing numbers of Canadians are wise to their slander campaigns, some progressives still end up […]

Legal Complaint Launched against Israeli-Canadian Charity

July 31, 2021

By Yves Engler A request to revoke the Canadian Zionist Cultural Association’s charitable status is an important step towards lessening Canadian complicity in Palestinian dispossession. Registered Canadian charities provide significant support to Israel and drawing […]

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