Last week the Canadian Journalists For Free Expression (CJFE) issued a statement (reproduced in full below) that said that Canada “must condemn the one-sided use of military force against civilian demonstrators and media in Gaza, must immediately call for a cessation of these brutal practices and must use all available diplomatic, political and economic channels to pressure Israel to initiate a fulsome and transparent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the massacre.”

On Wednesday, March 21 Israel handed out demolition orders to the residents of Umm al-Hiran, a Bedouin Village in the Negev. Umm al-Hiran, an “unrecognized village” which receives neither water, nor electricity, nor infrastructure from the Israeli government, has been slated for demolition since 2013 when the Israeli cabinet approved its destruction to make way for the Jewish town of Hiran. For several years religious Jewish settlers have been living in an illegal outpost in