Tag: Canada: Palestinians and B’nai Brith

NOVANEWS Niki Ashton injects vital ideas and principles into the NDP leadership campaign Niki Ashton. Image credit: Matt Jiggins/ flickr By Prof. Tony Hall  Like many NATO countries, Canada has suffered from an impoverishment of free and open debate when it comes to the issue of relations with the Israeli government and the Palestinian people. In country after country the Israeli lobby dominates not only governing parties but opposition parties as well. The Canadian Parliament has epitomized the pattern. Elected federal officials have conspicuously failed to reflect the anxieties felt by many Canadians of conscience who have managed to become well informed on Palestinian-Israeli relations. There has been little in Canadian parliamentary debates or in mainstream media reports to reflec...