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Oct 8, 2024 | 
briarpatchmagazine.com | Tara Alami
In 2020, CBC Radio One host Duncan McCue publicly apologized for referring to Palestine as “Palestine” while interviewing Joe Sacco about his book Paying the Land.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
africasacountry.com | Mohammed Elnaiem |Tara Alami |Tom Devriendt
Colonialism only loosens its hold when the knife is at its throat. We can’t talk about Fanon without grappling with his analysis of violence and the psychology of oppression, especially during the present era of destruction and death. What would Fanon say about the colonial genocide and “avalanche of murders” currently taking place in Gaza and other places? What would he say about the traumatic and tormenting effects on Palestinian children, women, and men?
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
readthemaple.com | Davide Mastracci |Tara Alami
Yesterday, The Globe and Mail published an article by former Supreme Court justice Rosalie Abella arguing that South Africa’s application to institute proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for genocide is “shameful.” Someone as well-accomplished as Abella should be ashamed to have her name on this article.
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Dec 31, 2023 | 
portside.org | Tara Alami
Gas, Gaza, and Western Imperialism Published December 31, 2023 The current assault on Gaza cannot be seen as separate from the theft of resources like fuel and the systemic destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure throughout Palestine. Only ten days after the beginning of the most recent assault on Gaza, the World Health Organization announced that fewer than “24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left” in Gaza.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
mondoweiss.net | Tara Alami
The current assault on Gaza cannot be seen as separate from the theft of resources like fuel and the systemic destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure throughout Palestine. Only ten days after the beginning of the most recent assault on Gaza, the World Health Organization announced that fewer than “24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left” in Gaza.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
readthemaple.com | Davide Mastracci |Tara Alami
On Saturday, at least tens of thousands of people across Canada attended pro-Palestine rallies calling for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Pro-Israel lobby groups, panicked at the rising support for Palestine throughout the country, were ready and eager to smear the protests as antisemitic in an effort to slow the tide of opposition to the apartheid state. And so they tried.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
readthemaple.com | Tara Alami |Davide Mastracci
Since October 7, Zionist airstrikes have killed more than 7,000 Gazans, including at least 2,913 children. Tuesday was reportedly the deadliest day for Palestinians since the beginning of the assault, with 748 recorded martyrs. Hundreds more are still missing underneath the rubble. In the occupied West Bank, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has killed at least 110 Palestinians and arrested more than 1,000.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
readthemaple.com | Davide Mastracci |Tara Alami
On October 21, a massive pro-Palestine protest took place in Toronto, with thousands showing up to express solidarity with those under attack. Unfortunately, much of the media coverage about the event has focused on a speaker calling for a boycott of Cafe Landwer, an Israeli restaurant chain with multiple locations in the city.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
readthemaple.com | Davide Mastracci |Tara Alami
If you’ve been involved in pro-Palestine activism for any amount of time, you will, at some point, have been asked, ‘Do you support Hamas?’ The purpose of this question is threefold: 1) to set up a prerequisite of condemning Palestinians before speaking on Palestine; 2) to immediately try to put Palestine supporters on the defensive; 3) to misrepresent Hamas as the entirety of Palestinian resistance.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
readthemaple.com | Alex Cosh |Tara Alami |James Wilt
Former defence minister Anita Anand was instructed to offer her counterparts advice about “reconciliation” before encouraging Latin American governments that violently suppress Indigenous-led protests to buy more Canadian-made weapons last year. In particular, Anand’s briefing notes for the July 2022 Conference of Defence Ministers in Brazil highlighted Canada’s arms deals with Colombia.
