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Jun 20, 2026, 10:36 PM

When the Soccer Field becomes a Battlefield

Thursday night I went to the Canada-Qatar World Cup match at BC Place in Vancouver, Canada. Canada won 6-0. I am not saying my presence was the deciding factor, but Canada has won every World Cup game I have ever attended....

Jun 19, 2026, 4:58 AM

Trapped in the Stories of Palestine

What if one of the greatest barriers to peace is not only what the sides want, but what their deepest wounds have taught them to fear losing? As the region begins to look beyond the immediate Iran crisis toward...

Barry Mellinger

Jun 16, 2026, 6:10 PM

Francesca’s Colonialism

Francesca Albanese has emerged as the UN’s loudest activist, not because she has uncovered anything new, but because she applies a single academic framework to every conflict she addresses. Her method is simple. History is reduced to two roles,...

Jun 14, 2026, 7:54 PM

There will be no Palestinian state — now what?

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For 78 years the Palestinian cause has bet that Israel is temporary. The bet has lost.

Kostis Konstantinou

Jun 14, 2026, 6:27 PM

They Celebrated on Oct. 7. What Did We Expect?

Sitting in my flat in Nicosia, Cyprus, on the evening of Oct. 7, 2023, I watched, like so many others, in disbelief as the outside world was flooded with images of Hamas’s atrocities in Israel. At some point, a friend...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 11, 2026, 1:27 PM

Hamas Disarms for Cameras, Kills for Power

The latest United Nations report on Gaza exposes the fraud at the center of every negotiation with Hamas. The terrorist group tells diplomats it may disarm while its own enforcers execute, maim, and beat Palestinians to preserve power. This...

Jun 10, 2026, 4:07 AM

Tony winners should stay shtum on politics!

It’s awards week, so it must be political soapbox time. Again. At the Tony Awards on Sunday, America’s joyous celebration of all things theatre, the Best Supporting Actor winner, The Lost Boys star Ali Louis Bourzgui, decided to devote...

Gordon Louis Aronoff

Jun 9, 2026, 6:42 PM

When Antisemitism Becomes ‘Political Discomfort’

Avi Lewis at the podium after securing the leadership of the NDP on March 29, 2026. Image retrieved with permission from https://x.com/BenNephrology/status/2038286722086375731/photo/1

In May 2025, the Canadian Jewish News published an op-ed I wrote in response to a letter signed by forty academics who invoked their Jewish identity to demand the resignation of then-Quebec Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry. The Quebec...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 9, 2026, 6:14 AM

America’s New Anti-Israel Left-Right Consensus

Fifteen years ago, both major American political parties treated Israel as a strategic asset in the Middle East. Gallup’s 2011 surveys showed clear majorities sympathizing more with Israelis than with Palestinians across Democratic and Republican ranks. By February 2026,...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jun 8, 2026, 6:59 PM

When Activism Cannot Hear Palestinians

The Activism That Cannot Hear Palestinians The contemporary Western activist often does not hear Palestinians first. He hears the echo of his own redemptive script. “Free Palestine” then functions not as a political demand, but as a ritual formula through...

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