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Montreal: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, part 2/2Reuel S. Amdur
November 4, 2010
Health care in Gaza was under attack during Operation Cast Lead. It still is. Ewa Jasiewicz, an English-Polish journalist and organizer, was there. She rode in the ambulances with the medical rescuers. She could not tell anything about conditions in the West Bank and Jerusalem, as she has been barred from those places for the last seven years. Her entrance to Gaza was via blockade-crashing ships.
The Arctic: not up for grabsReuel S. Amdur
November 4, 2010
The popular view that the Arctic is an area of massive unresolved claims is simply wrong. So says Michael Byers, Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia.
Iran in OttawaReuel S. Amdur
November 4, 2010
Dr. Saeid Ameli, dean of the faculty of global studies at Tehran University and the keynote speaker at the Ottawa conference called for the media to stop its general negative representation of his country.
Anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism?Reuel S. Amdur
November 10, 2010
Before I went to Montreal on October 22 to attend the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions event held at the campus of the University of Quebec at Montreal, I came across an article in the webzine Shalom Life. "Among the speakers will be Bongani Masuku, a top official in the Confederation of South African Trade Unions who has been found guilty by the South African Human Rights Commission of anti-Semitic hate speech."
Ford: A Criminal in Denial Reuel S. Amdur
December 8, 2013
The Rob Ford fiasco undermines the Rob Ford solution to the urban situation. His solution to the cost of services is to cut taxes and let services shrivel. He even contemplated closing libraries. His solution to gun crime is to ban all criminals convicted of gun offenses from living in Toronto and to demand an additional $10 million from the province for more police. Notice the contradiction between cutting taxes and demanding more money. He wants no part of "hug a thug" programs, and while he has had his football team he has opposed City Council giving financial support to other youth programs that might have a role to play in prevention.
One Sufi looks at religionReuel S. Amdur
November 17, 2010
Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is a Sufi but at the same time a traditionalist. On November 5, he addressed an audience at Ottawa's Carleton University on the topic "The Law, the Path, and the Truth in Islam."
Transgender TreatmentReuel S. Amdur
May 23, 2019
In Canada, one of 200 people is a redhead. The same proportion applies for people who are of physically indeterminate gender and, according to Dr. Leah Layman-Pleet, of people who are transgender. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) gives an incidence far lower, less than .2% for persons born as male and less than .1% for females. It has been the common practice for physicians who deliver a baby of indeterminate sex, with mixed genital expression, to operate to transform the baby into a male or female, according to what appears to be the predominate characteristics. Now, many physicians avoid performing such surgery and allow the person to grow up with these anomalies intact.
Getting Back in the Game, a book reviewReuel S. Amdur
November 17, 2010
Getting Back in the Game, Paul Heinbecker, Key Porter Books, Toronto, 2010.
Who are the Yazidis?Reuel S. Amdur
September 11, 2014
Iraqi Yazidis have been in the news lately, and not pleasant news. The Islamic State extremists have overrun some Yazidi villages, with the command to convert to their brand of Islam or die. Many have been killed or have fled. Women have been carried off. But who are the Yazidis?
Manufacturing anti-Semitism in Ottawa Reuel S. Amdur
December 2, 2010
The Interparliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism was holding their convention on Parliament Hill on November 8, but they had competition. Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) booked a room for a press conference.

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