Justice For Armenia Is Justice For All
Justice delayed is justice denied, but sometimes it is better late than never. The 105th anniversary of the inadequately acknowledged Armenian Genocide is a stark reminder of one of humanity’s most deplorable mass murders as well as the international community’s...
10 ways my immigrant family prepared me for the coronavirus crisis
You may feel that the unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19 has replaced your normal life with a dystopian one. News reports of increasing worldwide anxiety, including the suicides of anyone from a teenage girl to a German finance minister, seem to reflect and fuel a...
When the Arabs Were Zionists (And May Be Again)
The Arab world has long been characterized (and caricatured) for its rejection of Jewish self-determination (as well as that of other minorities in the region that include but are not limited to the Kurds, Yazidis, Assyrians, and Armenians). While this understanding...
Examining the International Community’s Long-Standing Double Standard on Refugees
The plight of Palestinian refugees was catapulted back into the spotlight last month, after a pair of events brought the issue to the forefront of international attention. While the Trump administration unveiled a new peace plan, the United Nations Relief and Works...
Venezuela: The Tide is Turning
While the world watches with bated breath, Venezuelans are taking their country back from the grip of tyranny. Or at least trying to. Just as the people of East Germany and other nations resisted and overthrew the despotic Soviet empire, thousands of Venezuelans have...
Persecuted religious minorities reveal flaws in global immigration systems
Sentenced to death by hanging for drinking water out of the “wrong” cup while on a hot workday of harvesting berries, the case of Asia Bibi has made global headlines. This Christian woman from Pakistan spent nearly eight years on death row for making this seemingly...
How BDS Hurts Palestinians and Hinders Peace
Believed by many to be a crusade that espouses human rights—particularly Palestinian rights—can the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement provide the solutions it promises, were its demands to be met? BDS claims to be working to better the lives of the...
Why BDS Is an Anti-Human Rights Movement
In 2002, Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli-American psychologist, won the Nobel Prize for economics when his empirical results challenged the status quo notion that people make economic decisions based on logic. Instead, the research showed that human biases,...
Trudeau’s St. Louis Apology: Actions Speak Louder than Words
“20, 000 charming children will all too soon grow up into 20, 000 ugly adults.” That deplorable statement, made by Laura Delano Houghteling (cousin to President Franklin Roosevelt and wife of the U.S. Commissioner of Immigration), was in response to the consideration...
Truth: A Casualty of War
The axiom that war always brings some tragedy in its wake is undeniable. To suggest otherwise would be naïve romanticism at best, and at worst, murderous. While one can justify acting in self-defence, it cannot be denied that one of the most terrible...