What – and how – to teach students about Israel?
For educators, broaching the Jewish state’s more controversial issues with students can be a complicated – and rewarding – endeavour.
Legal scholars debate Israel’s new land law
Former Labor MK Einat Wilf and Prof. Avi Bell took opposing positions on the law, which legalizes existing settlements built on privately held Palestinian land.
In the West Bank, one door closes while new ones open
While the withdrawal of Gaza was far more ambitious than the evacuation of Amona, population 200, the associated trauma – for the residents and their supporters, and for the Jewish state as a whole – was eerily similar.
Israel’s new land law deemed barrier to peace by many in Canada
Israel’s controversial law to retroactively legalize some Jewish settlements on privately owned Palestinian land was met by Canadian groups, Jewish and not, with silence and disapproval.
Knesset passes bill to legalize settlements on private Palestinian land
Knesset lawmakers voted 60-52 in favour of the measure late on Feb. 6 to legalize some 4,000 settler homes.
Trudeau should use Israel embassy issue strategically
Rather than simply watching the U.S, Israel and the rest of the world play out a drama that probably won’t end well, embassy issue is a chance for Canada to nudge toward some kind of progress in the Middle East.
Pope silent as Abbas denies Jewish history in Jerusalem
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How can Abbas reconcile a claim that Israel is the birthplace of Christianity with the PA’s frequent, overheated denials of any Jewish history in Jerusalem?
Canadian Catholic bishops denounce Israeli ‘occupation’
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has posted a statement on its website calling Israeli occupation of West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem a “scandal.”
‘La Conférence de Paris va exacerber la haine d’Israël’
‘Les Israéliens n’ont rien reçu en contrepartie des Palestiniens’: Olivier Rafowicz, ancien porte-parole de l’Armée israélienne
Canadian policy remains unchanged after UNSC resolution fallout
Amid the controversy surrounding last month’s UN Security Council resolution slamming Israel for settlement activity and calling all territory it captured in the 1967 war illegal, Canada has kept a low profile and reiterated its support for a two-state solution
