By: Howie Silbiger, Editor-in-Chief The 2025/26 Concordia Student Union handbook is out. On the surface, it looks like a standard spiral bound planner. Bold type proclaims “Made for students, by students,” and the cover…
Category: opinion
When Did Jews Become Subhuman?
By Howie Silbiger A doctor in Belgium thought it acceptable to write “Jewish/Israeli” in the allergy box of a child’s hospital record. In London, ninety thousand people at Wembley booed when two…
OPINION: COLDPLAY SINGER DECLARES ISRAELI FANS “EQUAL HUMANS”
By Howie Silbiger – Editor-in-Chief Wembley Stadium turned from a concert hall into a trial by mob when Coldplay frontman Chris Martin called two young Israeli fans “equal humans” on stage (see…
OPINION AND VIDEO: October 7th, 2023 – Terror Attack – The Tassa Family Residence – Released by Israeli PM Netanyahu
Content Warning: The following video is extremely graphic, depicting part of a genocidal terror attack that took place in Israel on October 7th, 2023. It depicts a father’s sacrificing his life to…
Quebec’s Proposed New Prayer Ban Will Criminalize Jewish Rituals
By Howie Silbiger – Editor-in-Chief The Quebec government is preparing to introduce legislation that would ban prayer in public, a move framed as a response to Muslim street gatherings but one that…
OPINION: WHEN PHILADELPHIA LOWERED ITS FLAG, HAMPSTEAD RAISED A BIGGER ONE
By Howie Silbiger, Editor-in-Chief There is no space left for excuses. Jewish communities are under attack, and every institution is showing its true face. Some stand tall. Others collapse in shame. Some…
OPINION: QUEERS FOR PALESTINE: A MOVEMENT THAT IGNORES REALITY
By: Ahmed Muhamed Hamdan, Special to the Montreal Jewish News When you see activists marching under the banner of “Queers for Palestine,” it feels like stepping into an upside down world. The…
OPINION: CANADA HELPED CREATE AHED TAMIMI
By: Joseph Marshall Ahed Tamimi was never the innocent child the media paraded across the world. She was trained from the start, starring in Palestinian propaganda films, her tantrums and slaps scripted…
OPINION: RED HANDS, BLOODY STREETS, AND POLITICIANS WHO SOLD US OUT
By Joseph Marshall Propaganda is the mask, terror is the message. In Montreal, the mobs are not subtle. They march with their hands smeared in red paint. Those red hands are not…
OPINION: Hampstead Flag Burns While Carney Promises to Raise Palestine’s
By Joseph Marshall In the middle of the night, arsonists struck at Hampstead Town Hall, setting fire to the Israeli flag. The flames were meant to intimidate, to divide, to silence a…