In service of struggle, break the academic hush on Israel and Palestine
I (DeFehr) have fond childhood memories of an elementary school teacher quieting her classroom saying, “a hush fell over the room.” All her students would…
international affairs
Feminism and genocide: a reflection on ‘Hear our Voices’
Discussions about feminism in the context of Israel and Palestine are tied up with concepts like nationalism. Hosted by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights…
Re: Zionism, Hindutva and the fascist brotherhood
Dear Editor, I’m so sorry that Lakshmisree Shaji is so uninformed about Zionism. Zionism is built upon the yearning by Jews to live and…
Zionism, Hindutva and the fascist brotherhood
I see similarities between Zionism and Hindutva — an extremist Hindu-supremacist ideology which promotes creating a single Hindu identity. In short, Hindutva advocates strive for…
Nursing student reinstated
University of Manitoba nursing student and former senior stick of the U of M Nursing Students’ Association Arij Al Khafagi’s status as a student has…
Pax Americana is gone, now what?
War made the United States what it is. In the wake of geopolitical conflict, the country was catapulted into world dominance, but now, the relative…
19-year-old U of M international student fatally shot by police
The University of Manitoba community is grappling with the fatal shooting of Afolabi Stephen Opaso, a U of M economics student from Nigeria. On Dec….
Re: Re: U of M Prof’s concerns regarding nursing student suspension
I am writing in response to Haskel Greenfield’s Dec. 18 letter, which was a response to Ben Baader’s Dec. 5 letter in support of suspended…
Reflections on Israel-Palestine, teaching and the suspension of Arij Al Khafagi
Over the past decade at the U of M, I’ve taught a course called “Sometimes Pus, Sometimes Poetry: Cinema and Israel/Palestine” several times. The first…
The dangers of exaggeration in the news
As a linguistics graduate and former student journalist who now works in communications, I am well aware of the power of words. It seems that,…