On this day in 1947 the Israeli terrorist group Irgun killed four British policeman during a bank robbery.
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The sovereign right to protect one’s nation from terrorists should not include methods that just create the conditions for more terrorism.
There are times when you work in the (counter) terrorism space that you come across a story and say: WTF? This is one of those times. In early January, a Sri Lankan court sentenced a hardline Buddhist monk named Galagodaatte Gnanasara to nine months in prison for insulting Islam and inciting religious hatred. The remarks […]
Episode 259 – Terrorism is terrorism, and that includes Jewish extremism Setting houses on fire. Uprooting olive groves. Attacking schools. Killing civilians. These are things we have become accustomed to when we talk about jihadis but in this case we are talking about Israeli Jewish settlers in the West Bank. And is something the Israeli […]
This piece first appeared in The Epoch Times Canada on December 3, 2024 In the post 9/11 period, a new tool was made available for the Canadian government in the ill-named “war on terrorism.” It is not as if we had not experienced terrorism before that fateful day (the FLQ crisis in 1970 and the […]
Many years ago, I was in a relationship with a woman whose parents had emigrated to Canada from Europe shortly after WWII. The reasons for their move had to do with conflict in their homeland and the search for a better life abroad. Canada offered them that better life. Nevertheless, the woman’s mother hated everything […]
To paraphrase Justin Trudeau, “a terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist’. Can naming a group as such be that complicated?
Episode 236 – Do Canadian police have enough manpower to monitor and keep protests in check? Everywhere you turn these days you see mass protests. Anti-immigrant mobs. Climate activist demos. Pro-Palestine rallies. The list goes on and on. Some of these events can turn violent as counter-protestors show up. To prevent this from happening we […]
Terrorism analysis demands consistency and accuracy across the board: this entails the need to talk about Jewish terrorism in Israel
The vile practice of anti-Semitism has been around for millennia: when does it cross the line into acts of terrorism?