Independent Jewish Voices
Are you worried about the direction the world is heading today?
Does the relentless rise of fascism, anti-immigrant hatred, and authoritarian tyranny scare you?
Perhaps it’s the ceaseless enrichment of a handful of already obscenely rich men, peddling climate-destroying AI technologies that bums you out the most, or the perfidious silence of corporate media, or the sterilization of public education systems that collaborate with, rather than oppose authoritarianism.
If so, you may wish to resist. Before you get up/stand up, sit down and give Henry Giroux a read. No one captures the contours of fascist culture and aesthetics, and the role of critical pedagogy in resisting “fascist plague,” more sharply and colourfully.
Henry Giroux is Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest, and Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario. Among his latest books: The Violence of Organized Forgetting, Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle, America at War with Itself, and Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (together with Brad Evans).
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US-Israeli genocide continues to unfold in Gaza and the Palestinian West Bank, but Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney won’t talk about it. Keir Starmer, Frederick Merz, Emanuelle Macron won’t either.
Israel’s largest trading partner, the EU, continues to extend aid and assistance to a regime declared unlawful by the international community’s supreme judicial body, the International Court of Justice.
Western leaders want to help Israel out — militarily, economically, diplomatically – not hold it accountable under international law.
In startling contrast, those who do name Israeli crimes, and call for justice – like Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine – get hounded down. Marco Rubio has slapped crushing sanctions on Albanese, and on the prosecutors and judges of the International Criminal Court.
Here in Canada, Israel’s fiercest critics can’t count on an ounce of tangible government support. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and the Munich Security Conference, Carney and other Canadian officials commented dispassionately on the collapse of the “international rules-based order.”
Rather than standing up for and defending the UN Charter, the four Geneva Conventions, the Genocide Convention, and other canonical instruments of 20th century international law, Carney says, Canada must adapt to the rules of the jungle.
Indeed, Carney and his confreres steadfastly ignore international law.
Out on the street, Canadians of conscience do their best to shift the needle, but it isn’t easy. Getting the government to stop funneling weapons and ammunition to Apartheid Israel, via the US, will take lots of organization, and vast energy. The simplest acts may be the most rewarding.
To learn more about the size and shape of simple acts, the GPM reached out to David Mivasair.
David Mivasair is a rabbi, originally from Baltimore, who’s lived in Canada for years. He’s also a member of a group called Independent Jewish Voices Canada, and a tireless Palestine solidarity activist in Hamilton, Ontario.
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