Last night, E. and I were at Queen's University in Kingston for a terrific event hosted by the Jewish Law Students' Association, with support from B'nai Brith, the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics and the broader Kingston Jewish community. About 150 people attended - and many more watched online, I'm told. I was honoured to be there to talk about my book The Hidden Hand, (now number two on the Amazon political bestseller lists) and our documentary The Campaign (which has

My book has been a bestseller for months, on Amazon and elsewhere, and it's now in it's third printing. Grateful to all of you who have picked it up. Here's some of things that people have said about it so far: David Frum, The Atlantic: "Just finished reading Warren Kinsella's remarkable book-length investigation of coordinated campaign of anti-Israel defamation since 10/7. Israel was targeted for genocide. When it repelled the genocidaires, it was accused of the very crime i

YOU ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE. That’s what they scrawled on the window of my partner’s business, below a Palestinian flag sticker. Earlier, they had worked to remove her from charities she’d supported for years. She was inundated with hateful messages when she took some of her mother’s ashes to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Around the same time, we heard there was a “Jew list” circulating in Prince Edward County, and her business - a coffee shop and bakery - was

CBC has pulled a veteran journalist off-air - and hit him with disciplinary action - simply because he filmed a protest taking place outside a Jewish religious service earlier this week. Neil Herland is an award-winning senior CBC journalist and producer with three decades’ of experience reporting news across North America. He is also a Jew. A few days ago, CBC management quietly pulled Herland off the air - because he had documented a newsworthy event. One they apparently d

Things were running a bit late. When the shooting started, when the bullets were hitting the beautiful old stained glass windows on one side of the Sons of Jacob synagogue, the people - about two dozen of them - were already inside. The congregants were just outside the sanctuary, getting ready to go in for Yom Kippur services. Fatefully, they weren’t in the sanctuary yet. Things had been running a bit late. Had that not been so, Rabbi Oded Peles said, a bullet would have hit

BELLEVILLE — The scourge of violent Jew hatred has seemingly come to the Friendly City. On Sunday night, with Yom Kippur being celebrated as the holiest and most solemn day of the year in Judaism — the Day of Atonement — shots rang out at Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville around 7 p.m. One Belleville police officer was hit and was later rushed to a hospital. While at least two dozen members of the Jewish community gathered for services, shots were heard and went “for at l

Mark Carney famously loved the Clash. So, at least once when he was Governor of the Bank of England, did our Prime Minister ever hum along to the British punk band’s song, Safe European Home? The tune is about the band’s first big trip to Jamaica, which wasn’t everything they had cracked it up to be. On the chorus, Joe Strummer sings: “Sitting here in my safe European home, don’t wanna go back there again.” Strummer was referring to Jamaica, and he didn’t mince words about th