For those who were blessedly unaware of Benjamin Hammond Haggerty’s existence, like me, a refresher. Haggerty performs (checks notes) rap music under the name “Macklemore.” He grew up in a Seattle neighbourhood where homes routinely fetch around $2 million (Cdn.). He went to one high school where the median household income was about $200,000 a year. Coincidentally, the high school Macklemore attended has been sued at least twice for Jewish students being terrorized by others

David Frum has given me a great honour by designating The Hidden Hand as his book of the week. Here is a link to his show - the discussion of the book is at about the 50-minute mark, but I encourage you to listen to all of it, because the show is about the misuse of the word "genocide," an important theme I've written about extensively - and below are some of the things David has to say. Thank you to David Frum for reading the book and recommending it - and to all of you who

At the U of T "encampment," showing how the Hamas red triangle is a symbol marking Jews for death. Review from Australia's Jewish Affairs Council, here. Snippets from their review: "Directed by Kari Hollend and Cristina Bishai, and led by Canadian political strategist, lawyer and author Warren Kinsella, The Campaignexamines the information war that erupted alongside the physical war following the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023. The central theme of the documentary is not wh

From Quill and Quire: Winners of 2026 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards revealed The winners of the 12th Canadian Jewish Literary Awards have been announced. The annual awards recognize and reward the finest Canadian writing on Jewish themes and subjects. Winners were selected by a jury comprised of writer and broadcaster Edward Trapunski, author Rona Arato, publishing professional Barbara Berson, author and journalist Andrew Cohen, lawyer Mark Freiman, professor Alain Goldschl

Celebration of Hamas attack in Mississauga, Ont., on October 8, 2023. Photo by Efrain Monsanto. The purpose of propaganda is to make some people think that other people aren’t human. Aldous Huxley, the British philosopher, said that. So true were his words, I started my book The Hidden Hand with them. Propaganda comes with differing names: agitprop, disinformation, fake news, falsehoods, frauds, lies. Whatever it is called, whatever the circumstances, that is always its inten

[Wrote this on this web site 25 years ago. Can't believe it's been that long. Quite a bit has changed since then. Sadly, our relationship with America isn't the same. Don't know if it ever will be again. But, happily, Sam is much, much smarter than his Dad, and is soon going to be a very successful lawyer. God bless everyone we lost 25 years ago.] On a beautiful Sunday afternoon just over a week ago, when the rural Ontario sky was clear and cloudless and seemed to go on forev

One year ago, Mark Carney recognized Palestine. Remember that? He said that the Palestinians had agreed to: Stop their program that pays their citizens to kill Jews. Reform the way they govern themselves, and have elections. De-militarize Palestine, and stop things like promoting Jew hatred in schools. A year later, not one of Carney's conditions has been met. None. Mark Carney went ahead and recognized Palestine anyway. And, in the intervening year, he hasn't withdrawn h

These days, so many crazy things get done and said, it’s hard to keep track. Years ago, the American author David Shenk came up with a name for it: data smog. There’s so much stuff clogging up our devices and TV screens - words, images, propaganda - that it becomes data smog. There’s too much of it. There’s only so many hours in the day. So we turn it off. This happens a lot, now, during the Trump era. Pollsters have taken note of it, on both sides of the border. The American