Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
by Sheri Oz · Published February 27, 2016 · Last modified February 29, 2016
It seems we cannot talk about Muslim “honour” killings in our new, cowardly PC society without fear of being labelled an Islamophobe. But then Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy comes along with a documentary film about...
Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
by Sheri Oz · Published February 21, 2016 · Last modified April 2, 2021
Curious about a Facebook link to a post by Ikhlas Ishtaya on the website “Two Sides” promoting co-existence workshops, I began to read. Her story looked interesting and I was sure I would be...
Fighting the lies of academic BDS is serious business, but I found out you can sometimes have fun with it. Pro-BDSers repeatedly write about how the security problems in “Palestine” caused by Israeli “oppression”...
Consider this a case-study: On 4 February 2016 at York University, the JDL conducted a humiliating and ineffective counter-protest to a divestment demonstration. Using this event as an example, I offer here the way...
Sometimes it is smarter to keep silent than to make a fuss. It is not necessarily weakness. The demonstration at York University yesterday (Feb 4, 2016) was a prime example of silence being golden....
Self-hating Jews, I think, deplore the reflection of themselves that they see mirrored in the eyes of the non-Jewish world; this determines how they experience their own Jewishness. Non-Jewish societies have, for centuries, found...
Ryan Bellerose, Meti Canadian, put on a kippa for a week and saw what it is like to walk around town as if he was an easily identifiable Jew. In contrast, I left Toronto...
Well, I wonder if it will comfort proponents of academic boycott of Israel to learn that the situation in Palestine is normal – according to someone with whom I communicated at An-Najah University in...
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