All across Canada and in the United States, there is an organized campaign to suppress criticism of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians.
The campaign is especially strong on university campuses where many voices have been raised in support of human rights for the Palestinians.
For the last several decades, though, it has been all but impossible to cry out against the Israeli state without being smeared as an anti-Semite, or worse. To question not just Israel's actions, but the Zionist tenets on which the state is founded, has for too long been regarded an almost unspeakable blasphemy.
When an Israeli settler killed dozens of Palestinian worshippers during Ramadan at the Ibrahimi Mosque in...
At least three Palestinian women have been killed and eight more injured when a beauty salon...
A Canadian mother and her seven-year-old daughter, who has autism, have been detained by US Immigration...
