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Mark Gerretsen pens letter to Foreign Affairs Minister on ‘violent events in the Middle East’

Written on June 28, 2021. Posted in News.

Kingston and the Islands MP Mark Gerretsen sent a letter on Jun. 22 to Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau about the “violent events in the Middle East.” The letter, addressed to Garneau, is a result of Gerretsen’s virtual meeting with Muslim and Jewish community members on May 30 in which constituents...

Local MP Mark Gerretsen meets with Muslim and Jewish community members

Written on June 3, 2021. Posted in News.

On May 30, a group of Muslim community members and members of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) attended a closed Zoom meeting with Kingston and the Islands MP Mark Gerretsen. The meeting’s purpose was to allow community members to express their views on Palestine and the Canadian government’s lack...

Israeli Apartheid Week divides Queen’s clubs

Written on March 24, 2016. Posted in News.

At the corner of University Ave. and Union St. on Tuesday, “soldiers” patted down students in a demonstration designed to imitate checkpoints run by Israeli defense forces. Students in opposition to the event, meanwhile, stood to the side to explain their discomfort and concerns. The demonstration...

Bridging Palestinian and Canadian Aboriginal’s experiences

Written on November 13, 2015. Posted in News.

The SGPS club Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) hosted an event last Friday with the hopes of educating the Queen’s students about the parallels between the struggles of Canada’s indigenous peoples and Palestinians. The event, called, “From Jerusalem to the Grand River, Our Struggles...

No stance is the wrong stance

Written on September 10, 2014. Posted in Editorials.

The Society of Graduate and Professional Students’ (SGPS) recent decision to not take a stance on the bombing of two universities in Gaza was careless and lacked transparency. At their annual general meeting in August, the Ontario branch of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) voted to...

Co-operation over strife

Written on March 15, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Mike Yeomans, ArtSci ’14 Israeli Apartheid Week just ended, but the conversation about the Israel/Palestine conflict needs to carry on. Co-operation, discussion and dialogue are the only ways in which the conflict can cease. This is seemingly harder since a total break down in communications occurred...

Letters to the editor

Written on October 7, 2011. Posted in Opinions.

Re: “In defence of statehood bid” (Oct. 4, 2011). Dear Editors, Although Omer Aziz neatly lays the burden of a failed peace process on Israel, his analysis is problematic as it fails to address some fundamental issues, such as the history of Palestinian rejectionism, most recently exemplified by the...

In defence of statehood bid

Written on October 4, 2011. Posted in Opinions.

On Friday Sept. 23, President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas handed United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon an official application for recognition of Palestine based on 1967 borders. According to a Sept. 18 BBC-GlobeScan poll, only 21 per cent of countries surveyed oppose the Palestinians’...

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Mark Gerretsen pens letter to Foreign Affairs Minister on ‘violent events in the Middle East’

Local MP Mark Gerretsen meets with Muslim and Jewish community members

Israeli Apartheid Week divides Queen’s clubs

Bridging Palestinian and Canadian Aboriginal’s experiences

No stance is the wrong stance

Co-operation over strife

Letters to the editor

In defence of statehood bid

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