Articles on October 7 2023

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University of Ottawa Professor Cary Kogan, left, is joined by fellow members of the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics, at a news conference on its national study documenting antisemitism at Canadian universities and colleges, in Ottawa in August 2026. The study was commissioned by the federal government. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Many Jewish faculty and staff say university EDI is failing them

Equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives must be able to adapt and recognize diverse forms of pain and vulnerability.
Israel’s minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, centre, and lawmakers celebrate after Israel’s parliament passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, at the Knesset in Jerusalem Monday, March 30. Itay Cohen/Haaretz/AP

New Israeli law could mean death penalty by default for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks

This development reverses decades of global movement towards abolition of the death penalty, while normalising executions in an occupied territory.
President Donald Trump walks with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, on Oct. 13, 2025. AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Trump’s ability to counter Netanyahu’s spoiler tactics in public may have been key to advancing a ceasefire in Gaza

President Trump reversed a long-held perception among US foreign policymakers that pressuring Israel should only be done in private.
Israeli military personnel outside the secretive Sde Teiman detention centre in the Negev desert, southern Israel. Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images

Israeli doctors reveal their conflicted stories of treating Palestinian prisoners held in notorious ‘black site’ Sde Teiman

Israeli medical staff who treated Palestinian captives in the wake of the October 7 attacks say they are haunted by their experiences.
A nurse tends to a two-month-old baby in intensive care in Gaza City, February 2025. Jehad Alshrafi/Shutterstock

Health‑care workers should not be a target. In Gaza, their detention and death affect the entire population

The UN estimates more than 1,000 health-care workers have been killed in Palestinian territories since October 7 2023.
Israelis with photos of people killed and taken captive by Hamas militants at the Nova music festival in southern Israel, displayed at the site of the event. Ohad Zwigenberg/AAP

‘Dark tourism’ is attracting visitors to war zones and sites of atrocities in Israel and Ukraine. Why?

People have long visited places like Auschwitz-Birkenau and, more recently, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Now we’re seeing ‘solidarity tours’ to Israel’s October 7 sites and war tourism in Ukraine.

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