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September 26, 1947: Killings in British mandate Palestine

On this day in 1947 the Israeli terrorist group Irgun killed four British policeman during a bank robbery.

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There is more than enough blame on both sides for the ongoing violence in Israel/Palestine

The sovereign right to protect one’s nation from terrorists should not include methods that just create the conditions for more terrorism.

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Buddhist terrorism? You’re kidding, right?

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 […]

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Why is Israel continuing to condone Jewish terrorism?

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 […]

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Protecting National Security Takes More Than Just Adding a Group to the Terrorist List

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 […]

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Transplanted homeland violence is fodder for the anti-immigrant fringe

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 […]

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What does it take to list a terrorist group in Canada?

To paraphrase Justin Trudeau, “a terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist’. Can naming a group as such be that complicated?

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Yes everyone has a right to protest but who steps in when it goes sideways?

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 […]

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We all need to condemn Jewish terrorism as we do jihadism

Terrorism analysis demands consistency and accuracy across the board: this entails the need to talk about Jewish terrorism in Israel

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The Time to Call Anti-Semitism Terrorism Is Well Past Due

The vile practice of anti-Semitism has been around for millennia: when does it cross the line into acts of terrorism?