Middle East

Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May has condemned her party’s decision to vote in support of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The party voted on the resolution at its convention in Ottawa over the weekend, despite May’s opposition to the measure. The resolution states that the Green Party “supports the use

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for his country to turn “a new page” in its relations with Russia and his “friend Vladimir” Putin, ahead of a visit to St Petersburg this week. Relations between the two presidents turned sour in November 2015 when Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet for a brief

Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid met this afternoon (Monday) with two members of the French parliament, Mr. Ciotti and Mr. Larrivee from Nice. Lapid chose to meet with them in “the Alley”, the pub in Nice in which three Israelis were murdered last January, in order to demonstrate the reality Israelis regularly deal with to

MONTREAL – The federal government has distanced itself from a major international gathering opening Tuesday in Montreal following complaints that its programming included anti-Semitic content. The World Social Forum, expected to draw more than 10,000 participants, was told last week to remove the Canadian government logo from its list of partners after two Liberal MPs