Islamism — defined most benignly as “the belief that Islam should influence political systems”— is, according to Joe Adam George, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Nation...
Well, I admit I didn’t see that one coming. I’m referring, of course, to Mark Carney’s gaffe at a Calgary campaign stop, where he responded to a protester’s yell that there was...
It’s fine for political leaders to project general visions of Canadian excellence in a future that’s suddenly shorn of American friendship and protection. But national excellence, prosperi...
In February, the western world was shocked when a TikTok video exposed two Australian nurses, Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, openly reviling Jews and Israelis, insinuating they...
Two years ago, I would have sympathized with liberals’ chagrin over U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election. In fact, I was for a time a “never Trumper.” But then came Octobe...
What constitutes true leadership? The lowest bar, it seems to me, would — following a horrific event abroad (October 7) that sparked knock-on mayhem at home, fomented by hate-messaging, terror-s...
Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel unleashed a whirlwind that, 15 months on, has yet to subside. Israel is strong. Her encircling enemies are defeated, crippled or vulnerable. T...
As you’ve likely heard several times by now, Donald Trump’s decisive victory on Tuesday was “the greatest political comeback in American history.” It’s not an exaggeratio...
The word genocide has unfortunately lost much of its potency through misuse and unethical appropriation in the past decade. But in the case of the fragile Yazidi people, there can be no disputing the ...
One year on, Jews in the West have had time to process the primary shock of Hamas’s pogrom in southern Israel and the secondary shock of hateful blowback against Israel and Jews worldwide. We le...
As the first anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 pogrom in southern Israel approaches, Jewish communities feel mounting dread, imagining the nefarious ways in which our enemies may choose to &ldquo...
On Sept 5-6, 1972, over the course of 20 hours during the Munich Olympic Games, 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were tortured and murdered by the terrorist group, Black September, an affiliate of the ...
Earlier this month, the Fraser Institute published the results of a commissioned poll, conducted by Leger, that sought to know how Ontario parents of children in schools—both public and private&...
MONTREAL — In a 2008 Commentary Magazine article, Ruth Wisse, who in her youth was a Jewish studies pioneer at McGill University, issued a warning to diaspora Jews: if Arab “rejectionism&r...
Israel is home to about 150,000 Christians, 80 percent of them Arabs. They live and prosper in security and equality with their fellow Jewish and Muslim citizens. But they are an anomaly in the Middle...
The most compelling evidence for Hamas’s atrocities on October 7 came straight from the source: live video from GoPro cameras strapped to the terrorists’ bodies. Why, all sane people wonde...
Robert Rex Raphael Murphy was a great Canadian. His profound erudition could have led to a career in academia, but, fortunately for us, Rex chose journalism because he hated footnotes. In voice and pr...
For seven months, since Oct. 7, university students have been enjoying revolutionary cosplay. Their faces swathed in Arafat scarves, they wave flags, demand Israel disinvestment, scream mantras premis...
According to a January report submitted to Israel’s Knesset regarding anti-Semitism around the world since Oct. 7, anti-Semitism is up 800 percent in Canada (higher than France, Germany, and the...
A pro-Palestinian activist group called Nakba Education BC has sent an open letter and a petition to Minister of Education Rachna Singh demanding that “the Nakba” be immediately (“NO...