Richard Robertson

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Mar 5, 2021, 12:05 AM

In Defense of Carleton University’s Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies

Sadly, with increasing frequency, I am bombarded with news of anti-Semitic occurrences in Canada. Increasingly, the incidents are taking place on Canadian post-secondary campuses. That is why, this past Friday, it was with great haste and indifference that I...

Feb 11, 2021, 8:06 AM

In the Wake of Holocaust Remembrance Week, A Mitzvah

Early last month, while conducting research for a paper I am writing on the social history of Auschwitz, I was using the online library services at York University where I am presently a graduate student whose research focuses on...

Jan 24, 2021, 3:02 AM

A ‘wineing’ hypocrisy: The BDS movement in Canada

Recently, both as an academic who studies the Holocaust and as a passionate Canadian Jew, I have been struggling to make liminal to others my fear of an increasingly troubling trend. That being the denigration of the actions of...

Jan 10, 2021, 12:33 AM

Wake Up! You Cannot be a Jewish Republican

After the events that unfolded in and around the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on January 6th, 2021, I firmly believe that it is no longer conscionable for members of the American, and to the lesser extent global Jewry,...

Jan 6, 2021, 8:19 AM

Am Israel Chai, Eh?

It is time for Canadian Jews to universally support the state of Israel. No longer can political views be used as justification for apathetic inaction or worse for Jewish contributions to the defamation of the State of Israel. Hebraic...

Dec 7, 2020, 11:58 PM

Those in Glass Houses…The Hypocrisy of Foreign Funding at American Universities

The phenomenon of the BDS (Boycott, Disinvest, Sanction) movement is nothing new. The 21st Century has seen the polemic discourse that facilitates the movement’s existence permeate into the mainstream media and flourish across North American university campuses. Increasingly, the...

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About Me

Richard Robertson was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is a proud Thornhillian. He holds a Juris Doctor (Dalhousie University, 2017) and is presently a graduate student in York University's Department of History where his research focuses on the field of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is a member of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies and is presently a Research Associate at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Center for Jewish Studies at York University.

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