From Myth to Massacre: How History Repeats in Gaza

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The story of Gaza is not a sudden tragedy but the outcome of a century-long colonial project. Myths of an “empty land” and Israel as the “only democracy in the Middle East” mask systemic discrimination, dispossession, and violence. Historical records, laws, and international complicity reveal a state built on ethnic privilege, where inequality is law and impunity reigns. Ignoring these truths risks repeating the darkest patterns of history—displacement, oppression, and mass injustice—right before our eyes.

Gaza Genocide: a Collective Crime: the new Report of Francesca Albanese

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The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a collective crime, sustained by the complicity of influential Third States that have enabled longstanding systemic violations of international law by Israel. Framed by colonial narratives that dehumanize the Palestinians, this live-streamed atrocity has been facilitated through Third States’ direct support, material aid, diplomatic protection and, in some cases, active participation.

Canadian Charities Complicit in Israel’s Crimes

Promotional image for CBC's The Fifth Estate episode Funding the Occupation, airing October 17 at 9pm.

Canada, a state built on the erasure of its First Nations, now sanctions—through tax breaks and indifference—the ongoing erasure of another Indigenous people half a world away. Until Canada confronts this continuity—the thread between its internal colonial past and its external alliances—it will remain, however politely, a nation fluent in the language of empathy yet complicit in the architecture of oppression.

Digital ID, Big Tech, and the Future of Our Rights

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What happens in Gaza does not stay in Gaza. Once refined, the digital tools are repackaged as solutions for domestic governance: health, immigration, welfare, and policing. Creating a de facto social credit system.

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