The Canadian Government objects to taking the matter of Israel's “separation barrier” before the International Court of Justice at The Hague.

Within hours after the Israeli Supreme Court dismissed a petition from the residents of Rafah refugee camp asking for a halt to the home demolitions that have left thousands of Palestinians homeless this month, the streets leading out of Rafah were jammed with cars and carts piled with the belongings of camp inhabitants seeking refuge ahead of the Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF) largest offensive against Gaza in decades.

The procession coincided with the 56th commemoration of http://www.alnakba.org/ " target="_blank">Al-Nakba (the catastrophe), the term used to describe the expu

“Today, I feel very alone, very concerned and very sad.” With thesewords, Gil Troy, a tenured professor at McGill University, prefaced acommentary that was published in the National Post — that impoverishedflagship of the marginalized and demoralized — decrying ConcordiaUniversity's decision to bar former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak fromspeaking at Concordia.

Jason Portnoy, co-president of Hillel, invited Barak to lecture atConcordia.

For a documentary that Judy Rebick described in rabble.ca as “more on the side of the Palestinians in the Middle East,” the National Film Board's Discordia still managed to make (nearly) everyone happy.

After its world premiere at Concordia in early February, Aaron Maté, a central character in the documentary, jokingly told me that he was having second thoughts about Discordia seeing that Yoni Petel, a B'nai Brith organizer and member of the Zionist youth group Betar, gave Discordia the thumbs-up.

From the director of Confrontation at Concordia, which aired on Global TV last year, comes a new documentary which claims to examine the extent of anti-Semitism in the Euro-British media using the coverage surrounding the Israeli army's April 2002 assault against Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank as a case in point.

In Jenin: Massacring Truth, Global TV's Martin Himel follows Jonathan Von Caspel, an Israeli reservist who served in Jenin, as he confronts several British journalists who had reported claims of a massacre and atrocities during the fortnight of fighting between t

The International Court of Justice has ruled that the separation barrier Israel is constructing in the occupied West Bank is illegal. The decision affirms the reality that this is a conflict between an occupier and an occupied. ThePalestinians are fighting to end a 37-year-long military occupation.

The matrix of concrete walls and coils of barbed wire that the Court ruledis “illegal” and must be dismantled is illegal because Israel isconstructing it on occupied lands.

John Volpe, Canada's Human Resources Minister, is nagged by the feeling that Canadians are just not literate enough. That explains why, last October, he announced a $250 million campaign to improve literacy levels among Canadians.

It may also explain why Volpe invoked “Canadian values” to justify Canada's recent vote at the UN General Assembly against a resolution that called on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian occupied territories. After all, how many Canadians can be expected to read the resolution?