By William Rafael Smyth They did not fall on swords. They were pushed, dragged and exposed. The collapse of BBC leadership arrived like a long awaited reckoning. Director General Tim Davie and…
Broken Glass in Toronto: Eighty-Seven Years After Kristallnacht, Jewish Students Attacked for Speaking
By Joeseph Marshall On November 5, just days before the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, a mob of anti-Israel activists stormed a Students Supporting Israel event near Bay and…
Thirty Years Since Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination
By Joseph Marshall Thirty years ago this week, Israel was shaken by the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. On the night of November 4, 1995, at the end of a peace…
The Pickle Fountain: Proof That Humanity Has Officially Lost It
By Howie Silbiger, Editor in Chief Somewhere on the internet, a perfectly good chocolate fountain met its briny fate. Out went the sweet, in went the sour, and suddenly the world was…
OPINION: The Death of English Media in Montreal
By Howie Silbiger My whole life has been centered around media. I knew I wanted to work in radio from the time I was ten years old and I always believed that…
Montreal Chooses Familiar Faces as Brownstein, Levi and Martinez Ferrada Hold the Line
By Joseph Marshall Montrealers went to the polls and when the ballots were counted, little had changed across the island. The faces are mostly familiar, the politics mostly predictable, and the promises…
Go Vote, Montreal. It Matters.
Today, Montrealers have a chance to do something many people around the world can only dream of: cast a ballot in a free and democratic election. It may not feel dramatic. There…
From 400 Students to a National Crisis: The Long Battle Over Israel’s Draft Exemption
By Joseph Marshall Last week in Montreal, hundreds of black-coated men stood outside the Israeli Consulate. Their signs were simple: “Torah first, draft last.” “We will not be soldiers.” The air was…
Jewish Heirs Sue the Met Over Van Gogh Masterpiece Seized by Nazis
A Jewish family has launched a new lawsuit against the Metropolitan Museum of Art, claiming that one of Vincent van Gogh’s celebrated paintings, Olive Picking, was looted by the Nazis and wrongfully…
RABOUIN AND SAUVÉ SIGN PRO PALESTINIAN PACT AS LAWSUIT HITS CITY
By Mayer Wochyniak Two Montreal politicians, Projet Montréal leader Luc Rabouin and Transition Montréal leader Craig Sauvé, have ignited outrage by signing the Pacte Anti Apartheid, a pro Palestinian pledge demanding that…