*Memo to Minister Kenney : Criticism of Israel is not Anti-Semitic* *by Judy Rebick and Alan Sears (March 1, 2009)* ** As Israeli Apartheid Week gets underway, there is a major campaign currently underway to deny freedom of expression on campus to those in solidarity with Palestine on the basis of a...

"The generality of Seymour's conclusion, the broad sweep of his argument and the passion of his attack are overstated, dissipating their force. More nuance and context could have made this potentially important book compelling. It is a shame, as buried in these pages and their footnotes is a great d...

The best way to end the bloody occupation is to target Israel with the kind of movement that ended apartheid in South Africa. Naomi Klein The Guardian, Saturday 10 January 2009 It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target o...

Statement by Dr. Rueben Roth for Palestinian Support Rally, Sudbury, January 9, 2008 I regret that I was unable to join you at today’s demonstration. I’m an anti-Zionist Jew, a claim that often confuses and confounds those who have set ideas about the State of Israel and its claim that it repres...

If you would like to sign on to this letter, send an email to antizionistjews@gmail.com with your name and city January 5th, 2009 Like much of the world, we have spent the last week watching in shock and disgust as Israel continues its assault on the Gaza Strip. With the body count rising and a new ...

How much of an idiot? This much . Censuring the "racist flip-side of anti-imperialism", the guru of New-Labour-revival-via-his-new-blog, asserts that Ralph Nader, John Pilger and Ayman al-Zawahiri have something in common. While Zawahiri (looking very lonely these days - wonder where his chums have ...

After the light-weight, syrupy spiritual uplift of the Obama victory, it's time to get hardcore again. Get down to SOAS today, why not, and take part in the fifth annual Historical Materialism conference : THEMES COVERED WILL INCLUDE: APPROACHING PASSIVE REVOLUTIONS * ART AND CAPITALISM * ASPECTS OF...

Afghanistan under the knife and hammer by Richard Seymour, from Lenin's Tomb, July 3, 2008. The procedure is quite simple. Choose a country in the world that seems to be suffering, in some way dysfunctional, ripe for 'intervention'. Perform some 'surgical' air strikes and, after a quick and painless...

On a quest for secular piety: Reviewing Tarek Fatah's Chasing a Mirage by Justin Podur, ZNet, June 22, 2008. Tarek personally asked me to review his book, Chasing a Mirage: the tragic illusion of an Islamic State (CM). With a book being favorably reviewed in the Canadian (and US and UK) media, inclu...

On March 28, 2008, Naomi Klein gave the keynote address to Canada's first Independent Canadian Jewish Conference, attended by over 100 Jews against the occupation of Palestine from over a dozen organizations in over 20 cities across Canada. Click here to see the video of her presentation....