David I. Roytenberg

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Jul 12, 2024, 5:31 AM

Will Zionists be Silenced at the TDSB?

On June 19, 2024, Toronto Jews rallied outside the headquarters of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) in advance of a meeting scheduled for the evening. The meeting was set to approve the board’s new antiracism policy including new...

Jul 7, 2024, 7:37 AM

IDF Kills the Enemy, World Loses its Mind

A Case Study in Hamas Media Manipulation On Wednesday, the story was everywhere. Israel bombs school in Gaza. Thirty three dead according to Hamas, mostly women and children. According to this CNN story, which was accessed for this article on June 7 in...

Jun 4, 2024, 12:15 AM

Hillel Neuer Fights On

Canadian Leader of UN Watch Joined Discussion About the Upsurge of Antisemitism DAVID ROYTENBERG While this article was being prepared for publication (originally published May 24) we got the sickening news that the International Court of Justice at the Hague had...

May 26, 2024, 8:46 AM

What About Whataboutism?

We learned as I was writing this that the bodies of three Israelis taken on October 7 have been returned to Israel by a special forces operation in Gaza. I am full of admiration for the bravery and skill...

May 5, 2024, 11:07 PM

Encampments and the Corruption of Language

When freedom is harassment and words mean their opposites When I was a kid, I got up every morning at 6AM and brought in the newspaper. Kids went to bed early in those days. From the time I learned how...

Apr 20, 2024, 1:02 AM

Reporting on the Rapporteurs (Part 2)

In our previous post, we set out to write about Francesca Albanese. Albanese is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967. Sharp eyed readers will notice that the...

Apr 16, 2024, 12:36 AM

Reporting on the Special Rapporteurs (Part I)

I started writing today’s article because of some comments by Francesca Albanese. It’s turned out to be much longer than I initially expected and so I am dividing it in two. For those who may not know, Francesca Albanese is the current...

Mar 27, 2024, 9:28 PM

Fisking the NDP Motion in Canada’s Parliament on the State of Palestine

Two weeks ago the Canadian Parliament debated an NDP motion, which calls on the Canadian government to take a number of measures that affect the State of Israel and the Canadian policy in response to the current war between...

Mar 7, 2024, 8:43 AM

Lies propagated by the media feed the frenzy of Israel hatred on Canadian Streets If you know about the history of antisemitism, the notion of blood libel will be familiar. The blood libel first appeared in Europe in the middle ages and...

Feb 28, 2024, 1:36 PM

Are we winning?

I was in Jerusalem on February 20, visiting my Israeli sister. She and her husband are hosting their daughter and ten month old granddaughter, the daughter’s dog, and a very loud cat named Frankie, who has adopted all of...

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About Me

David Roytenberg is a Canadian living in Ottawa, Canada, with a lifelong interest in Israel and Zionism. He spent 9 months in Israel in 1974-75 on Kibbutz Kfar Glickson and is a frequent visitor to friends and family in Israel. He is married and the father of two sons. David is Secretary of MERCAZ Canada and the chair of Adult Education for Kehillat Beth Israel in Ottawa. He wrote monthly about Israel and Zionism for the Canadian Jewish News from 2017 to 2020.