Mattea Roach, Emilie Nicolas, Ethan Cox & Murtaza Hussain will break down the past 3 weeks’ worth of news in the backdrop of decades of context, and get granular about Canada’s response to it all. 

Host:  Mattea Roach

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guests: Emilie Nicolas, Ethan Cox, Murtaza Hussain

Background reading:

• Canada-Israel relations
• Canada-West Bank-the Gaza Strip relations
• Who governs the West Bank? Understanding Palestinian political leadership – NPR
• What is the Gaza Strip? – NPR
• A Canadian Politician Has Been Sacked for Calling for a Cease-Fire in Palestine – Jacobin
• Lobby group pushes Canada to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism – Breach Media
• Voting Against its Own Interests – CJPME
• Canada’s Rejection of Amnesty’s Apartheid Report Not Based on Specific Evidence, according to ATIP request – CJPME
• La Semaine contre l’apartheid israélien divise les Communes – Le Devoir
• Conservative MP Tim Uppal sorry for role in ‘divisiveness’ of Harper-era policies – CTV News
• The Baffling Politics of Stephen Harper and Israel – Al Jazeera
• Trudeau says UN vote not a shift in Canada’s ‘steadfast’ support of Israel – CBC News

Sponsors: Rotman, Douglas 

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