James Cooper, at The Blogs

Feb 21, 2025, 6:08 PM

The UN estimates it will cost over $50 billion to rebuild Gaza – a poor investment so long as Gazans remain committed to the destruction of Israel. That money would be better spent financing those who wish to leave. In...

Oct 28, 2024, 3:50 PM

Israel Activists: Change the Frame, Win the Debate

Israel’s critics have mastered the art of locking the Jewish state into no-win situations through one simple tactic – by taking control over framing the terms of debate. Pro-Israel activists need to raise their game by changing the frame. ...

Mar 22, 2024, 10:53 AM

Will Israel’s critics support a plan for humanitarian disarmament in Gaza?

If Israel’s morally concerned critics wish to bring about a sustained humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, they should have no issue with backing a plan for humanitarian disarmament that entails no loss of civilian life. Amid the incessant calls at the...

Mar 19, 2024, 10:48 AM

Israel: A Strange Astonishment in the Eyes of the Nations

In late November 2023, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood before TV cameras, lecturing Israel to exercise “maximum restraint” in its war to rid the Gaza Strip of Hamas’ terror apparatus, while warning the Jewish State that “the world...

Dec 6, 2023, 6:56 PM

Is Palestine the Ancient Greek Name for the Children of Israel?

The Biblical patriarch Jacob - renamed as Israel - wrestling an angel of the Lord by the Jabbok River. Illustration by Gustave Dore.

In a paper published in 1999, David M. Jacobson noted that the Greek name for Palestine – first entering the historical record in the writings of Herodotus in the fifth century B.C.E. – bore a striking relationship with the...

Dec 3, 2023, 9:39 PM

Did the PA Ever Revise Its Charter Calling for the Destruction of Israel?

President Biden is currently intent on pushing for a two-state solution once the IDF does the hard job of clearing out Hamas from Gaza. Biden proposes to give Gaza into the hands of the Palestinian Authority (the PA), based on...

Jun 28, 2020, 3:23 PM

How Annexation of Settlements May Ensure A Palestinian State

On July 1st, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to begin the process to annex the Jewish settlement blocs and the Jordan Valley portion of Area C. Thereafter, in accordance with the Trump plan, he will commit to a Jewish...

Dec 11, 2017, 11:02 AM

How Trump duped Israel on the embassy move

On December 5, 2017, President Donald Trump announced that he would do what no other President has done over the past two decades. Henceforth, he would order that the US Embassy in Tel Aviv be relocated to Jerusalem, in...

Nov 30, 2017, 6:15 AM

An Open Challenge to the Progressive Critics of Israel

To those who claim to be profoundly disturbed by the suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank: I propose a wonderful opportunity for you to make a difference, to actually improve the daily lives of all Palestinians...

Nov 29, 2017, 12:23 AM

The United Nations and the Palestinian Refugees: A Case Study in International Legal Fraud

What if you discovered that the overwhelming majority of Palestinian refugees never actually left Palestine in 1948, that they just evacuated from those portions of Mandate Palestine which constituted the frontline in what was promised to be a war...

About Me

James Cooper is a practicing lawyer in the Greater Toronto Area. He has written and spoken publicly on matters of interest to the legal profession and to the Jewish community at large.