Tag: palestine
TIFF: Red Fields
As part of the
Contemporary World Cinema program at TIFF comes the Israeli film Red
Fields, directed by Keren
Yedaya. This movie is based on the Israeli...
The many faces of Christianity
Nowadays, it seems that pop cultural references to Christianity depict the religion through a Western paradigm. In what follows, I argue that it is...
Critiquing capitalism the right way
Imagine capitalism stripped of its secrecy. Imagine capitalism as a series of unfiltered, visual representations that illustrate contexts often shielded from the public. Blackwood...
Israel Apartheid Week comes to UTM
About 60 attendees were present at last week’s speaker event “The Soldier and the Refusenik”—hosted by the Association of Palestinian Students and open to...
Trans issues discussed at DisOrientation Week
Last week, UTMSU hosted workshops and conversations about social issues through the annual DisOrientation Week, which featured discussions on topics ranging from colonialism to...
Scarlett Johansson is no role model
In January 2014, Scarlett Johansson starred in her shortest role to date: a 30-second Super Bowl ad for home carbonation appliance manufacturer SodaStream. Johansson’s...
Room for disagreement
It’s Israeli Apartheid Week in Toronto, and we have a features article by Dana Bibi on the Israeli company SodaStream. The main point of...
Gaza ceasefire uncertain
Since December 27, 2008, Israel has been executing military airstrikes and artillery attacks in the Gaza strip, resulting in nearly 1,300 deaths. Approximately forty...
Thousands gather downtown for Palestine
The corner of Avenue and Bloor was flooded as thousands of protesters braved the sub zero temperature to gather on Saturday afternoon and state...
Searching for justice in Palestine
Hazem Hussain is supposed to be in a graduate business program in California right now, but unfortunately hes not allowed to be there. Israel...