Tia Sacks, at The Blogs

Dec 21, 2022, 9:41 AM

How the Islamophobia claim is derailing the fight for women’s rights in Iran The protestors currently in Iran have shown the world they don’t need pussy-hat wearing Western feminists. And they especially don’t need them calling out Islamophobia on their...

May 13, 2022, 8:29 PM

How The Media Just Failed Both Jews and Shireen Abu Akleh

In the past couple days we witnessed something both horrific and unbelievable. We heard of the devastating death of Arab Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, and we saw the immediate mass dispersion of blatantly deceptive news headlines. Abu Akleh was...

Oct 17, 2020, 9:04 PM

My “Not So Jewish” Bubble

Not long after one of my grandfather’s was in Israel during its establishment, my other grandfather was drafted into the Egyptian army against Israel. My mother was born in Egypt to a Muslim father and German-Catholic mother and converted...

May 21, 2020, 8:34 AM

Stop Comparing Your Quarantine to Anne Frank

Over the last couple months, I have seen multiple posts on social media exclaiming that citizens are not to complain while staying indoors, as Anne Frank and many others were able to stay quarantined for several years during WWII....

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Tia Sacks is a twenty-one-year-old student in her fourth year at Western University in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. She participated in the World Jewish Congress Lauder Fellowship and is currently the vice-president of the Israel committee at Hillel Western, and an intern at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA).

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