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Mar 4, 2021, 5:46 PM

The ‘vaccine apartheid libel’ is anti-semitism

For the mainstream media, there are only two news narratives about Israel and its coronavirus vaccine rollout. First, that the Jewish state is the world leader in inoculating its population, having distributed millions of doses in only a matter...

Jan 26, 2021, 6:04 PM

Dear Twitter: Ban Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei

The face of social media changed a lot recently. In the immediate aftermath of the riots in Washington, DC. by supporters of Donald Trump, social media platforms took important steps to combat incitement to violence. Facebook decided to temporarily suspend...

Jan 11, 2021, 12:37 AM

Dear Mahmoud Abbas: Hold Palestinian Elections Now

Less than nine months after its last legislative election, Israel is once again set to go to the polls again this spring, after the Knesset recently failed to pass the 2020 budget. In what will be the fourth election in...

Dec 30, 2020, 11:00 PM

Where’s The Outrage: Jews Attacked Over Chanukkah

For more than two thousand years, Jews around the world have celebrated Chanukkah, the festival of lights, which commemorates their triumph in thwarting the ancient Greek empire who tried to forcibly assimilate the Jewish population of the Levant in...

Sep 1, 2020, 11:04 PM

Israel and UAE change Mideast peacemaking paradigm

For decades, a sacrosanct pillar and bedrock of international diplomacy held that the Arab-Israeli conflict could only be solved once the Israeli-Palestinian impasse was concluded. Dubbed “linkage,” this concept’s conventional wisdom posited that a comprehensive peace would never be negotiated...

Feb 10, 2020, 8:03 PM

To Understand Iran, Look to the Handmaid’s Tale’s Gilead

To better understand Iran, look to Gilead, the dystopian world that Canadian author Margaret Atwood created in The Handmaid’s Tale. Whereas Gilead is a totalitarian state resembling a Christian theonomy that overthrows the United States government, Iran is a run...

Dec 17, 2019, 5:47 PM

Reverse Canada’s Faustian Bargain with Dictators

Labelled a “betrayal” of a most trusted ally and a “Faustian bargain with dictatorships,” on November 19, Canada voted against Israel and with the Jewish state’s enemies at the United Nations. Breaking with bi-partisan tradition and a principled 10-year record in opposing...

Aug 23, 2018, 8:51 PM

Twitter Offsides in Giving Hamas A Platform

Shamefully, thanks to social media giant Twitter, on August 19 you were able to #AskHamas a question and get “an immediate answer by a senior Hamas leader.” Using Twitter as a megaphone to the masses, the Hamas terror organization spewed outright lies, hate and incitement to...

Apr 24, 2015, 10:43 PM

J’Accuse: Globe and Mail Delegitimizes Israel’s Claim to Jerusalem

Despite the Jewish people’s continuous and unbroken physical presence in the land of Israel for over 3 millennia, Jews are routinely presented as foreign occupiers of their own ancestral and biblical homeland. The Jewish people’s un-renounced legal and religious claims...

Dec 9, 2014, 6:36 PM

Palestinian Unilateralism is Latest Manifestation of Palestinian Rejectionism

In the unyielding quest towards reaching a final resolution to the impasse between Palestinians and Israelis, it's widely understood that the path to Mideast peace must see an independent, democratic, and demilitarized Palestinian state exist alongside Israel, recognized as...

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Mike Fegelman is Executive Director of HonestReporting Canada, a non-profit organization which ensures fair and accurate Canadian media coverage of Israel.

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