Kristallnacht in Canada’s Parliament

 Antisemitism on full display in Parliament courtesy of Jagmeet Singh and the NDP-Liberal Coalition. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana In recent years, Canada has seen a troubling rise in antisemitic incidents, prompting serious concerns about the roots and perpetuation of this

The Best Ships Are Friendships: Irish Ambassador Eamonn McKee on Diplomacy and the Utilities of History

 Eamonn McKee is Ireland’s Ambassador to Canada, Jamaica, The Bahamas and just recently Antigua and Barbuda. (Ireland has a consulate-general in Vancouver and honorary consulates in Calgary, Edmonton, and St. John’s.) He joined Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs in 1986, a year prior to graduating from the National University of

Rallies for Palestine Fail to Win Hearts and Minds

 In December, I attended the rally for the Jewish People on Parliament Hill and wrote about it here. At that point, Israel’s retaliatory attack on Hamas in the Gaza Strip had been underway for about two months. I readily admit that I am pro-Israel, and while the current suffering of

Supporting an Unconditional Ceasefire is Supporting Hamas 

 By Becca Wertman-Traub and Emmanuelle Amar On December 12, Canadian foreign policy showed its hypocrisy, flip-flopping from a statement that clearly condemned Hamas and its role in perpetrating violence against both Israelis and Palestinians, to, just a few hours later, voting in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution that

The recent Gaza war — back to basics

 ABOVE: Israel’s Iron Dome works to blowup incoming Hamas rockets in Tel Aviv. (May 11, 2021, IMAGE VIA SKYNEWS) by Howard Adelman Peter Beinart wrote two important pieces in Jewish Currents, one last summer that claimed, “The painful truth is that the project to which liberal Zionists like myself have devoted

Israeli-Palestinian Prognostications

 by Howard Adelman This paper is written in three parts. Each is simply a syntheses of conclusions and differences over the analysis of the conflict, surprisingly revealing a broad consensus In this three-part series, I originally intended to wrap up my collection of givens and trends with possible alternative choices or