OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 4-10-12 “Let Gunter Grass visit Israel – and encounter democracy” A popular YouTube parody at www.collegehumor.com, which my kids love, has a youngGerman named Gunter Granz working in an American office, refusing to shake his Jewish co-workers’ hands, assuming all their fathers are rich bankers, and humiliated by Germany’s World War [...]
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Let Gunter Grass visit Israel – and encounter democracy
Posted by giltroy on April 10, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/let-gunter-grass-visit-israel-and-encounter-democracy/
Cotler keeps up the pressure on Iran
By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 8-4-10 MP Irwin Cotler, the globe-trotting lawyer, professor, legislator and human rights activist, is at it again. While many people around the world ignore the abuses and dangers emanating from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran, or at best make symbolic gestures of opposition, Cotler has relentlessly opposed what he calls [...]
Posted by giltroy on August 4, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/cotler-pressure-iran/
How intellectuals enable Islamism
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 7-28-10 The human rights activist and Canadian parliamentarian Irwin Cotler recently released yet another important document, “The Responsibility to Prevent” petition, detailing how Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran oppresses its own citizens and threatens the world. Yet, like too many smokers ignoring clear cancer warnings, many liberals and intellectuals ignore the Iranian [...]
Posted by giltroy on July 29, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/intellectuals-islamism/
To be pro-Ahmadinejad is to be anti-peace
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 1-3-10 History is dynamic, not predetermined. There are crossroads in the life of nations, and 2010 could be such a moment for Iran. With the international community looking weakened and the rule of international law being mocked, this could be the year the Iranian nuclear project passes its point of [...]
Posted by giltroy on January 5, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/ahmadinejad-anti-peace/


