Scholar

Hamid Dabashi

Take Putin, Bush, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, and a whole gang of kindred thugs together, put a leash around their necks as you dispatch them all to the International Criminal Court and charge them with war crimes, and crimes against humanity. But this juvenile demonisation of an entire culture is pathetic.

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None of this justifies Putin’s military adventurism in Ukraine – but the US and its European allies are the last entities on planet earth with any moral authority to point fingers at Russia.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/4/1/beware-of-the-resurgent-russophobia

https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/hamid-dabashi

Main stream

Steven Pinker (pro war? ) http://www.globalresearch.ca/reality-denial-apologetics-for-western-imperial-violence/32066

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Pro war:

Hilary Clinton:

http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2016/09/03/1008921the-neocon-in-the-oval-office/

Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan

https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/20/a-family-business-of-perpetual-war/

Jeffrey Goldberg (Glenn Greenwald called Goldberg “One of the leading media cheerleaders for the attack on Iraq”) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeffrey_Goldberg&oldid=644871366

Bernard-Henri Lévy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard-Henri_L%C3%A9vy William Safire (Speech writer for Nixon who served as a member of the Pulitzer Board) 🙂 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Safire https://vimeo.com/119573720

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Pro rich:

Andrew Coyne: “if shareholders willingly choose to pay their employees so handsomely out of their own money, what business is it of ours?…Likewise, before we condemn people for accepting such exorbitant salaries, should we not also inquire as to what they do with the money? Suppose, like Bill Gates, they give most of it away to charity.

A phony class war

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Universality of Human rights

Craig Murray (Scottish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6khYblu38WA

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Pro Poor

Charles Edward Russell Russell felt very strongly about the well-being of others: “transforming the world…to a place where one can know some peace…some joy of living, some sense of the inexhaustible beauties of the universe in which he has been placed”, was the purpose that inspired his work and his life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Russell

Henry A. Wallace

Following his term as Secretary of Commerce, Wallace became the editor of The New Republic magazine, which he used as a platform to oppose Truman’s foreign policies. On the declaration of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, he predicted it would mark the beginning of “a century of fear”.

universal government health insurance,
an end to the nascent Cold War,
full voting rights for black Americans,
and an end to segregation.

Wallace left his editorship position in 1948 to make an unsuccessful run as the Progressive Party‘s presidential candidate in the 1948 U.S. presidential election. With Idaho Democratic Senator Glen H. Taylor as his vice presidential running mate, his platform advocated
universal government health insurance,
an end to the nascent Cold War,
full voting rights for black Americans,
and an end to segregation.

Time magazine, which opposed the Wallace candidacy, described Wallace as “ostentatiously” riding through the towns and cities of the segregated South “with his Negro secretary beside him”.^[45] A barrage of eggs and tomatoes were hurled at Wallace and struck him and his campaign members during the tour.

Socialist

Robert Pollin

Military Realist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Macgregor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

Communist

Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012)

Progressive International

Yanis Varoufakis

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Anti-war:

Yves Engler (Canadian) URL: https://yvesengler.com/about/

Jimmy Carter

Congress woman Barbara_Lee

Borys_Wrzesnewskyj https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borys_Wrzesnewskyj

Denis Coderre

Peggy Nash

Maria Mourani

Sana Hassainia

Alex Anderson

Alexa McDonough

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=518fea97-7b51-49c9-bad6-e38070739bae

Tony Benn:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn

Randolph Bourne:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Bourne

Randolph Bourne Institute (publisher of Antiwar.com) http://antiwar.com/

http://fair-use.org/randolph-bourne/the-state/

Brant Rosen (Jewish Reconstructionist)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brant_Rosen

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, (1872 – 1970)

was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist.

Russell was a prominent anti-war activist; he championed anti-imperialism[61][62] and went to prison for his pacifism during World War I.[63] Later, he campaigned against Adolf Hitler, then criticised Stalinist totalitarianism, attacked the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War, and was an outspoken proponent of nuclear disarmament.[64]

A later conviction for publicly lecturing against inviting the US to enter the war on Britain’s side resulted in six months’ imprisonment in Brixton prison (see Bertrand Russell’s views on society) in 1918.[98] While in prison, Russell read enormously, and wrote the book Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy.[99] He was reinstated in 1919, resigned in 1920, was Tarner Lecturer 1926, and became a Fellow again 1944–49.[100][clarification needed]

In 1924, Bertrand again gained press attention when attending a “banquet” in the House of Commons with well-known campaigners, including Arnold Lupton, who had been both a Member of Parliament and had also endured imprisonment for “passive resistance to military or naval service”

In September 1961, at the age of 89, Russell was jailed for seven days in Brixton Prison after taking part in an anti-nuclear demonstration in London, for “breach of peace”. The magistrate offered to exempt him from jail if he pledged himself to “good behaviour”, to which Russell replied: “No, I won’t.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

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John Perkins

The American Ruling Class (2005)
Speaking Freely Volume 1: John Perkins (2007)
Confessions of an Economic Hitman (2007)
On The Line (2007)
The End of Poverty? (2008)
Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
Let’s Make Money (2008)
Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama (2009)
The Weight of Chains (2010)
Four Horsemen (2012)
American Empire (2012)
Money & Life (2012)
Project Censored the Movie (2013)
Gold Fever (2013)

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Alternative Ideologies

Slavoj Zizek

Anarchist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin#Return_to_Russia

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For Palestine

http://artistsforpalestine.org.uk/pledge-signatories/#third-identifier Thomas Hubert, the party’s youth leader in British Columbia, recently wrote on an Internet blog that Israel was the “most vile nation in human history,” and suggested Hezbollah might be considered freedom fighters.

Only Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Tom Carper oppose motion; Jerusalem council recently approved plans for additional embassy compound

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Islamophobic

Sam Harris http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/making-sense-of-gaza

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For Israel

Allan Dershowitz (the lawyer of registered sex offender banker Jeffrey Epstein) (who owes $10000 to Finkelstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeTpKASahAc)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_for_Israel

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30708795

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/08/alan-dershowitz-girl-jeffrey-epstein-teenager

Green Party of Canada of Leader Candidate: David Merner: supporting #BDS is “divisive” and “extremist” https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/canada/571196/israel-s-invite-chez-les-verts

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Zionist

https://www.canadianzf.ca/

https://cija.ca/

https://www.aipac.org/

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Selina Robinson

Robinson worked with B’nai Brith to mandate Holocaust education in the school curriculum which would be organized by CIJA, an organization that has been pivotal in lobbying Canadian politicians to support Israel.^[21]

In early 2024, Robinson faced criticism for comments made during an online event hosted by B’nai Brith Canada, claiming that Israel was founded on “a crappy piece of land with nothing on it – you know, there were several hundred thousand people but other than that, it didn’t produce an economy. It couldn’t grow things it didn’t have anything on it”.^[22] Adel Iskandar, a professor at Simon Fraser University, stated that “There’s absolutely no history book that would affirm Minister Robinson’s articulation of that period in time… Obviously it was not a ‘crappy piece of land’. It is the land that has had over 15,000 years of human habitability”, and describing the suggestion that the land was empty as a “fundamentally colonialist narrative”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selina_Robinson

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/selina-robinson-israel-comments-calls-to-resign-1.7102824

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One state solution Zionist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Beinart

NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opinion/israel-annexation-two-state-solution.html

https://www.facebook.com/PeterBeinart/videos/679812119271165/

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Anti-Zionist

http://www.ijan.org/

http://www.ijan.org/tag/canada/

Hajo Meyer

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/last-interview-auschwitz-survivor-urged-palestinians-not-give-their-fight
Video: https://vimeo.com/19523129

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http://www.truetorahjews.org/

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Ilan Pappé

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Papp%C3%A9

Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012)

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2012-10-01/ty-article/struggling-with-his-jewish-identity/0000017f-f42c-d887-a7ff-fcec050e0000

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Against Israel Policies

Norman Finkelstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNAKWF1uQ08

Paul krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/the-crisis-of-zionism/?_r=0

Jeff Halper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Halper

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/15/calls-for-inquiry-into-israels-gaza-killings

We, Israelis who wish our country to be safe and just, are appalled and horrified by the massive killing of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza (Reports, 15 May). None of the demonstrators posed any direct danger to the state of Israel or to its citizens. The killing of over 50 demonstrators and the thousands more wounded are reminiscent of the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960 in South Africa. The world acted then. We call upon decent members of the international community to act by demanding that those who commanded such shootings be investigated and tried.

The current leaders of the Israeli government are responsible for the criminal policy of shooting at unarmed demonstrators. The world must intervene to stop the ongoing killing.
Avraham Burg Former speaker of the Knesset and chairman of the Jewish Agency
Prof Nurit Peled Elhanan 2001 co-laureate of the Sakharov prize
Prof David Harel Vice-president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and recipient of the 2004 Israel Prize
Prof Yehoshua Kolodny Recipient of the 2010 Israel prize
Alex Levac Photographer and recipient of the 2005 Israel prize
Prof Judd Ne’eman Director and recipient of the 2009 Israel prize
Prof Zeev Sternhell Historian and recipient of the 2008 Israel prize
Prof David Shulman Recipient of the 2016 Israel prize
David Tartakover Artist and recipient of the 2002 Israel prize

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/14/israel-is-70-is-hope-for-a-two-state-solution-gone

Ten years ago, the Guardian published a letter from more than 100 Jewish signatories explaining why we would not be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. We are now approaching the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophe that dispossessed Palestinians from their land and turned three-quarters of a million of them into refugees. And the situation, both within Israel and in the occupied territories, has significantly worsened.

There are now 750,000 Israeli settlers on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. Palestinians in the West Bank live under an oppressive apartheid system, face demolition of their houses and uprooting of their olive trees, while the settlements expand unchecked. In East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, the policy of ethnic cleansing continues to be implemented, while the vicious punishment of the civilian population of Gaza is creating a human catastrophe and rendering the territory uninhabitable. Israel itself is a highly segregated society where the non-Jewish minority is viewed as a demographic threat and excluded from full citizenship; where religious fanaticism and repression take greater hold and dissident voices like B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence and the few principled journalists like Gideon Levy and Amira Hass, are attacked, marginalised and delegitimised.

Ten years ago a two-state solution still seemed possible. That chance has now gone. There are no peace negotiations. The peace process is dead. In reality it was never more than an excuse for Israel to consolidate its settlement project. The two-state solution is dead. Both Netanyahu’s government party and the so-called opposition, Zionist Unity, which includes the Israeli Labour party, are in agreement: the settlements will not be removed.

It is surely time to face up to the reality. As Jews, we believe that Israel has no long-term future as an exclusively Jewish state, an apartheid state. The only just solution for both sides is one secular state with equal rights for all.
Kate Adams
Sue Bard
Graham Bash
Frances Bernstein
Julian Bild
Leo Bild
Frank Black
Jay Blackwood
Nechamah Bonanos
Alice Bondi
Professor Tony Booth
Dave Brown
Elizabeth Carola
Hazel Chowcat
Robert Cohen
Neil Collins
Judith Cravitz
Mike Cushman
Angela Dale
Martin Davidson
Gregory Douglas
Elisabeth Dresner
Linda Edmondson
Thomas Eisner
Mark Elf
Liz Elkind
Michael Ellman
Professor Debbie Epstein
Dr Fiona Factor
Jessica Feinstein
Dr Jack George Field
Deborah Fink
Arye Finkle
Sylvia Finzi
Paul Fisher
David Ian Garfinkel
Tessa van Gelderen
Carolyn Gelenter
Rene Gimpel
John Goodman
Frances Gorman
Helen Green
Heinz Grunewald
Abe Hayeem
Rosamine Hayeem
Joel Hirsch
Nick Jacobs
Jennifer James
Riva Joffe
Ann Jungman
Ros Kane
Olive Kane
Louisa Kaplin
Jenny Kassman
David Kay
Rodney Kay-Kreizman
John Keidan
Monash Kessler
Godfrey King
Professor Rick Kuhn
Richard Kuper
David Landau
Richard Leigh
Leah Levane
Rachel Lever
Les Levidow
Peter Levin
Rosalind Levy
John Lohrenz
Susan Loppert
Ruth Loshak
Dorothy Macedo
Jenny Manson
Miriam Margolyes
Stephen Marks
Gill McCall
Ros Meadow
Dr Heather Mendick
Angie Mindel
Professor David Mond
Shoss Morris
Mica Nava
Diana Neslen
David Nissen
Susan Pashkoff
Professor Sol Picciotto
Judy Pile
Jacob Prager
Caroline Raine
Roland Rance
Frances Rifkin
Professor Steven Rose
Professor Jonathan Rosenhead
Leon Rosselson
Michael Sackin
Joan Safran
Leslie Safran
Sabby Sagall
Esther Saraga
Professor Donald Sassoon
Ian Saville
Mike Scott
Glyn Secker
Jenny Secretan
Marian Sedley
Professor Lynne Segal
Andy Simons
Professor Avi Shlaim
Liz Silver
Ludi Simpson
Margaret Spector
Vanessa Stilwell
Janey Stone
Hedley Taylor
Steve Tiller
Lisa Trainer
Michel Trainer
Tom Trainer
Norman Traub
Daniel Vulliamy
Dr Philip Ward
Brian Warshaw
Tanya Wess
Josh Welby
Ivan Wels
Charlotte Williams
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi
Naomi Woodspring
Miriam Yagud
Myk Zeitlin
Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo