CIJR | Canadian Institute for Jewish Research

L'institut Canadien de Recherches sur le Judaisme

Daily Briefing: ANTONY BLINKEN TALKS ISRAEL AND HAMAS

Daily Briefing: CANADA’S PM TRUDEAU ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION AFTER REPLACEMENT CHOSEN

TRUDEAU'S BETRAYAL OF JEWS

Daily Briefing: CAN ISRAEL DESTROY IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM?

Hillel Neuer addresses students at CIJR in Montreal

Executive director of UN Watch

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AS ARAB LEAGUE TURNS ON SYRIA, ALL EYES TURN TO DC, ISTANBUL, & TEHERAN

This past weekend, the Arab League decided—effective Wednesday—to suspend Syria’s membership in the body, sanctioning President Bashar Assad’s regime for failing to comply with a November 2 pact to withdraw its military forces from Syrian cities, release political prisoners and grant media access to the country. Amidst increasing international pressure to end his brutal […]

IS THIS DEBT TOO HIGH A PRICE TO PAY?

A recent spate of Holocaust-themed films, like the terrific new thriller The Debt, may encourage an anti-Zionist interpretation. After the demise of Apartheid South Africa in the early 1990s, the world sought a new villain to fill the bête noirerole. The self-styled morality police, led by mainstream media, academics, activists, NGOs and others […]

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‘DEMOCRACY’ IN EGYPT INDUCES PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS—‘HAMASTAN’, PART II?

MUBARAK’S DEPARTURE OPENS THE WAY TO A BIGGER CHALLENGE FOR EGYPT David Frum National Post, February 11, 2011 Egyptians are celebrating the fall of Hosni Mubarak. But we are not Egyptians. We are entitled to ask: What does this event mean for us? For Western interests? For peace in the Middle East? […]

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Quel Honneur?

Le PAJU et l’imposture antisioniste David Ouellette davidouellette.wordpress.com, 10 novembre 2011 La haine des Juifs a de tout temps été une affaire de diabolisation. Littéralement, au Moyen-Âge, dans le cas de l’antijudaïsme chrétien, pour lequel le Juif était le diable incarné voué à la destruction de la chrétienté et figurativement dans […]

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THE SOUNDS OF BUGLES, AND OF SIRENS: LET US ALL REMEMBER

A TIME TO REMEMBER Editorial National Post, November 11, 2011 Every year on this date, Canadians pause to remember the more than 100,000 of our citizens who have died serving our country and protecting the freedoms we enjoy. The solemn marking of this great sacrifice, and the pain of those our fallen soldiers have left […]

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DEMOCRACY IN EGYPT?—LEST WE FORGET…

IRAN: PRECONDITIONS AND PROVOCATIONS Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 10, 2011 The January 21-22 meeting in Istanbul between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (the P5+1), aimed at reaching at least some understandings regarding Iran’s nuclear program, concluded in […]

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WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP

Weekly Quotes “Canada does not stand behind Israel; Canada stands shoulder to shoulder with Israel.”—Canadian Foreign Minister, John Baird, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, emphasizing Canada’s staunch support of the Jewish state, and reiterating that “Israel has no greater friend in the world than Canada.” (JTA, January 31.) “The […]

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THE WAR IN IRAQ— THROUGH THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER…

RUMSFELD’S ‘SLICE OF HISTORY’ Kimberly Strassel Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2011 “I’d read other folks’ books about things I’d been involved in…and I’d think, My goodness, that’s not my perspective,” chuckles former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in [our] interview.… “I remember talking to [former Secretary of State] George Shultz and […]

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TWITTER, FACEBOOK, & JOURNALISTS ABOUND… BUT IS THE MEDIA’S MESSAGE AUTHENTIC?

THE REALITY OF REVOLUTION David Rieff New Republic, February 14, 2011 In both the euphoria and the apprehension that have accompanied the popular uprisings in the Arab Middle East…there has been an avalanche of the usual cyber-utopian techno-babble about the emancipatory potential of the Bluetooth devices and Twitter feeds for which authoritarian […]

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HANDLING IRAN’S DRIVE TO NUCLEAR STATUS: “I WON’T LET IRAN GET NUKES”—ROMNEY

Yesterday, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, released it most damning account to date of Iran’s continued pursuit of nuclear weapons. According to the report, “The Agency has serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme” and that credible information “indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the […]

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U.S. “FOLLY” AND THE LEGITIMACY OF “SETTLEMENTS”

AVOIDING EUPHORIA OVER OBAMA Isi Leibler Jerusalem Post, February 21, 2011 A strange euphoria seems to have blinded some Israelis and American Jews concerning the context of President Barack Obama’s veto of a UN resolution. In the past, blatantly one-sided anti- Israeli resolutions were vetoed as a matter of course. On […]

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GADHAFI, THE UN & THE U.S.: TRAGEDY, AND FAILURES, IN THE DESERT

DICTATOR LOSES GRIP IN DESERT Charles Levinson, Margaret Coker, & Tahani Karrar-Lewsley Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2011 On the ground in the eastern chunk of this oil-rich desert nation, the signs of rebellion are plain to see in the armories of a military base near Baida: Weapons crates lie busted […]