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Ignat Ayzenberg

May 15, 2026, 6:46 PM

A Nakba Day Reflection on the Politics of Recognition

The power asymmetry between Israelis and Palestinians is shaped by the unequal condition of statehood and statelessness within a twentieth-century international order that increasingly organized political legitimacy through the nation-state. As older imperial, multinational, and pan-national frameworks weakened, peoples...

Apr 21, 2026, 7:29 AM

Our Only Choice

This week in Israel is very different beginning with last night’s Yom-Ha’zikaron-Day of Remembrance. It is a night when the entire country stops whatever it is doing and pays tribute to all who have given their lives for the...

Oct 28, 2025, 12:08 AM

The nation that was invented

The history of the Middle East rarely allows simple answers. Sometimes nations are born from culture, sometimes from faith — but more often from war, corruption, and bureaucracy. So emerged the notion of the Palestinian people: not as an ethnic...

Oct 27, 2025, 9:46 AM

Remembering Toronto’s Hadassah Bazaar

Photograph by David Matlow, Toronto.

Growing up in Toronto, the last Wednesday of October was always a special day for me. It was the day of the annual Hadassah-WIZO Bazaar in the Automotive Building on the Canadian National Exhibition grounds. For 84 years, the bazaar...

Oct 13, 2025, 11:04 PM

Israel at a Crossroads?!

For decades, Israel has been accused of rejecting precisely planned for Gaza. Critics call it stubbornness. Supporters call it self-defense. The truth lies between those poles: Israel did not reject precisely plan because it feared coexistence; it rejected precisely...

Cedric Vloemans

Sep 21, 2025, 5:20 PM

No right to speak: London lit this fire

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The United Kingdom is set to recognize Palestine as a state today. For some, it may sound like a historic gesture; for others, a political necessity in light of the tragedy unfolding in Gaza. But anyone with a sense...

Aug 26, 2025, 6:16 PM

Ya Gotta Have Friends

I’m watching Morning Joe on MSNBC when Joe Scarborough says something along the lines of: “Since Israel’s IDF killed five journalists in Gaza City, and Netanyahu doesn’t seem to know how—or want—to end the Gaza war, Israel is losing a...

Jul 16, 2025, 7:53 AM

The Arab World’s Dirty Little Secret: Palestine!

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The two-state solution has long been treated as the holy grail of Middle East peace. The idea is simple enough: divide the land between Israelis and Palestinians, draw up borders, and let each people govern themselves. But for all...

Jun 30, 2025, 1:31 AM

Life’s a Beach: Balfour, Little Ones and Canada Day

Camp Katonim Turtle swim level crest (1970s). From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

It is almost 50 my first summer working at a camp. I confess, I get nostalgic about those carefree teenage days when all we had to worry about were evening programs and colour wars. I didn’t know it at the...

Cedric Vloemans

May 22, 2025, 3:51 PM

The myth regarding the occupation of Palestine

Israeli and Palestinian flags next to each other. (Wikicommons, Public Domain. CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated)

The Situation These developments underscore the urgency of a sustainable resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For decades, the Middle East has been a powder keg whose fuse never seems to be extinguished. Time and again — you could almost set your...

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