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The General Council of the United Church of Canada in convention in Ottawa this month adopted a resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli products from the West Bank. This action has resulted in a frenzied hostility from major Jewish organizations in Canada. Frank Diamant, CEO of B'nai Brith Canada, for example, said, "The recommendations only serve to undermine the goodwill that Jewish and Christian communities in Canada have worked tirelessly to establish and maintain."
Part I - Reality TV at the Democratic Convention
It doesn't take divine inspiration to predict two topics that will be discussed in American media until Election Day. Mike Lupica told it like it is in the June 15 New York Daily News, "More money will be spent" in this election "than on any political campaign in world history." The New York Times editorially rages against the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. It details corporate funding of "super PACs." And virtually every issue of the Wall Street Journal deals with U.S. and Israeli opposition to Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Today is a relatively normal day in Beni Suef. The sun is shining, the streets are lined with fresh vegetables and fruit, and motorbikes and microbuses whiz by in all directions. Muslims, Christians, Egyptians young and old, move about the Egyptian city as usual.
Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Chair in Islamic Studies at The University of Western Ontario will be the keynote speaker at the Canadian Charger's fundraising dinner to be held in Waterloo, Ontario on Saturday Nov. 10, 2012 at 5 pm. You can save $5 if you buy your ticket online now.
Quebec politics is taking some interesting twists and turns.
On a recent CBC Radio program The Current, with Anna Maria Tremonti, Jonathan Kay, National Post Managing Editor and a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, insisted that the shooting at the Parti Quebecois victory rally in Montreal, on September 4th is not connected to politics.
It is claimed that Canada has universal health care. Unfortunately, that is an overstatement.
The important issues are ignored and tensions needlessly aroused.
During the week prior to police opening fire and killing 34 miners at the Lonmin mine at Marikana in South Africa's North West province, on Thursday August 16, ten people were killed in clashes with police. Over 200 mineworkers remain in police custody, arrested after the deadly August 16th crackdown.
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