Alan Simons

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Mar 20, 2025, 10:11 PM

Let Not This British Report Sit Idly By!

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Israel-UK published a 312-page report on March 18, 2025, titled The Roberts Report on The 7 October Attacks documenting the devastating details of the October 7 attacks in southern Israel and the Hamas-led...

Dec 28, 2024, 9:42 AM

Oh, America! My world is also your world

Opinion. Back to the Future? Four years ago I wrote the following article and now as my final opinion piece for 2024, I am repeating it verbatim. Why? I suppose as I proceed along the age that recognises my vocal opinion...

Dec 10, 2024, 12:58 AM

Iran and Syria. Muslims and Jews. What is now in store for us?

Some years ago, I wrote a piece about leaders of countries who live in a state of fear, either through being squeezed economically or the fear of being attacked from outside their borders. Simply put, I said these maligned...

Apr 9, 2024, 12:41 AM

The 7th day of the month. Remembering the dead. Living with the memories. Rwanda and Israel

“I will never regret getting old. I know too many people who never had that privilege.” Sunday, April 7, 2024. The day Rwanda commemorates Kwibuka, the annual commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsi. Kwibuka is the Kinyarwanda word for...

Nov 7, 2023, 12:06 AM

Lest we Forget: Canada’s Jewish Military Veterans

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for...

Oct 31, 2023, 8:22 PM

Probably the largest antisemitic hate-fest since the Holocaust

Back to the Future? It was Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Laureate who said, “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.” By the definition of Wiesel’s quote, I believe that the...

Oct 30, 2023, 4:43 AM

Let’s stop pussyfooting with terminology and call a spade a spade

We have no choice. It’s time for our diaspora youth to take up the gauntlet Let’s stop pussyfooting with terminology and call a spade a spade. It is time for ordinary diaspora Jews everywhere to raise their voices and cease...

Oct 25, 2023, 9:34 AM

Our pain and anger: Searching for the truth

Anyone who has lost a loved one knows that you don’t recover. Instead, you learn to incorporate their absence and memories into your life and channel your emotional energy towards others, and eventually, your grief will walk beside you...

Oct 10, 2023, 1:15 AM

Hamas, the deluded splenetic terrorist psychopaths of the Gaza Strip

The Psychopathic Theocratic Leaders of Gaza. (With a little help from friends). A pitiful, bog of land, consisting of 365 km², called the Gaza Strip. Clamoring to celebrate the daily antisemitic claptrap and hate-mongering diatribe against Israel, and piggybacking on...

Sep 27, 2023, 9:45 PM

The USA. Three Easy Steps. From Democracy to Mobocracy to Ochlocracy

“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.” -Elie Wiesel Last week in an article published in Foreign Affairs and written by Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware, the headline, “American Hatred Goes...

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About Me

Simons is an author, writer and social & allyship advocate. He also publishes several online social news media services, relating to intolerance, hate, antisemitism, Islamophobia, conflict, and terrorism. As a diplomat, he served as the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Rwanda to Canada, post-genocide era. He recently published his seventh book.

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