Advocating for Palestinian human rights is not anti-Semitic

Andrew Caddell suggests that anyone who does not support Israel’s right to exist, is 'an idiot, or worse, a bigot'—again an attempt to deride human rights advocates and those who challenge the structural disenfranchisement of approximately half of those under its control.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured April 13, 2021, posted a video to commemorate Israel's Independence Day, Yom Haatzmaut, last week, but the Independent Jewish Voices Canada was critical of the video's message and ran a parody of it. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY COREY BALSAM

April 26, 2021

MONTREAL—In January of this year, Israeli human rights organization B’tselem released a groundbreaking report detailing the ways in which Israel enacts an apartheid regime in all the territory under its control (Isra...

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