What the Hell is a Voight Anyhow?

So John Voight had an open letter to Obama published today attacking Obama’s Israel policy, saying You will be the first American president that lied to the Jewish people, and the American people as well, when you said that you would defend Israel, the only Democratic state in the Middle East, against...

Jordan Is Palestine — No, Really

Geert Wilders, for anyone who does not know the name, is the head of an extremely right-wing political party in The Netherlands, called — in the standard format of the name describing the opposite of what it actually is — the Party for Freedom (which, according to Wikipedia, is the third...

What are we really defending and why?

Libby Davies and the Israeli-Palestine debate.  Amid the controversy that has arisen between Davies and a lifetime of politics in one corner, and a 4 minute video in the other, I’d like to address a moral question that I often think of when listening to Middle Eastern politics. Funnily enough, the...

Bury the lead

Almost 2 weeks ago I conducted an interview with Libby Davies at an anti Israel rally in vancouver. She said some things that there pretty stupid, and were picked up by the media as denying israel’s right to exist.  Well, the mass media has done, missing the true story in the Libby Davies interview...

More videos from the Libby Davies Speech

So initially I had planned on not releasing these, as they really did not seem newsworthy, particularly for a story that no one actually cared about.  However, now that this has become a story, people should see the context of my interview.  The following three videos appear in chronological order, all...

Lets pause and think…

Ever since the tragedy on the Turkish flotilla, Israel has been taking a lot of flack for the blockade around Gaza from what seems to be a very reactionary media.  Personally, I understand Israel’s need to blockade arms and military supplies from getting into Gaza, after all they are effectively at...