Jonathan Kay

October 15, 2014 | |

A Shocking Exposé of the Power Behind North Korea’s Kim Dictatorship

The great dystopian science fiction novels of the 20th Century were written from the perspective of elite totalitarian functionaries who become hunt...

August 19, 2014 | |

William Schabas’ Casual Anti-Israeli Bias Makes Him a Perfect Fit For a UN ‘Fact-Finding’ Inquiry

Not too long ago, Canadians would have been beaming with pride at the news that one of their own — renowned international human-rights law expert William Schabas — had been ap...

August 1, 2014 | |

This War Was Supposed to ‘isolate’ Israel. Instead, the opposite happened

“The world stands disgraced” was the banner headline that Britain’s Guardian newspaper put on ...

June 9, 2014 | Jonathan Kay

Twenty-five years later, our democratic reveries about Tiananmen Square seem ridiculous

Here in the West, everyone knows Tank Man — the brave Chinese protestor (pictured above) who stood alone in front of a column of tanks on Changan Avenue in Beijing, just outside Tiananmen S...

June 5, 2014 | Jonathan Kay

The Murder Of Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar Symbolizes Pakistan’s Descent Into Self-Annihilation

Tomorrow, Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar — the Canadian/American doctor who was assassinated last month in front of his wife and child, while he was performing a humanitarian mission in Pakistan &mdas...

May 13, 2014 | Jonathan Kay

The Politics of Genocide

Spring is a season for black memories. April 24 marked the beginning of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. April 27 was Yom HaShoah, a day for Holocaust remembrance. The Rwandan Genocide, in which Hu...

May 5, 2014 | Jonathan Kay |

The Troubling Rise of American ‘Withdrawalism’

Eastern Ukraine is falling to pieces. Suicide bombings remain epidemic in Iraq. Much of eastern Syria now is controlled by an al-Qaeda spin-off group that calls itself “Islamic State of Ira...

March 18, 2014 |

Shariah with a Jewish Face

Since 9/11, all Western societies have been wrestling with the problem of how to prevent the emergence of insular ethno-religious ghettos that breed poverty, religious extremism and regressive so...

February 3, 2014 |

Why Alleged Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, If Convicted, Deserves to Die

It began as an action movie, transformed into a slasher flick, and ended as a courtroom procedural. The criminal protagonists were despicable — though not in equal measure. On July...

December 17, 2013 |

Hail to the French

This coming spring will mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide, when as many as a million innocent civilians were butchered to death by Hutu tribal extremists in an orgy of bloodshed th...

December 3, 2013 | |

Sketching North Korea’s Sadism

Earlier this month, North Korea publicly executed as many as 80 citizens for such “crimes” as owning a Bible and watching Western movies. According to the South Korean newspaper ...

October 10, 2013 | |

Canadian Activists are Finally Learning that Israel Isn’t the Middle East’s True Villain

At the time of their release from Egyptian custody this past weekend, filmmaker and pro-Palestinian activist John Greyson and his traveling companion Tarek Loubani were just ...

October 10, 2013 |

The Real Lessons of Munich

On Oct. 10, 1938, 75 years ago today, Nazi Germany formally took control of the Sudetenland, the iron-rich portion of Czechoslovakia containing most of that country’s ethnic German populati...

September 11, 2013 | Jonathan Kay |

Bombing Syria Would Be Bound to Backfire

The case for bombing Syria comes in two flavours — left and right. But they boil down to the same bad argument. Liberal interventionists echo Barack Obama’s declaration that...

September 6, 2013 | Jonathan Kay |

‘Responsibility to Protect’ is No Basis for Bombing Syria

In the Saturday edition of the National Post, eminent human rights advocate Irwin Cotler wrote that “if mass atrocities in Syria are not a case for R2P [the Responsibility to Protect doctri...

June 19, 2013 |

Heads Held High in Afghanistan

Of all the books that have come out of the Afghanistan war since 9/11, one of the finest is The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, Jake Tapper’s recently published ac...

June 5, 2013 |

Pakistan’s Toxic Obsession with Kashmir is Still Generating Fresh Victims

Pakistan is beset by such a bewildering array of militant political and religious movements that it is sometimes difficult to keep them straight. The most spectacular events — such as last...

June 3, 2013 |

Build, Baby, Build

For those of us old enough to remember the 1973 oil crisis, the current North American oil-and-gas boom has a slightly surreal quality: The familiar problem of high energy demand and low supply i...

May 9, 2013 | |

Stephen Hawking Should Go to Israel — and Gaza

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel has done nothing to cripple the Jewish state’s economy. But it has scored a few big symbolic victories. This week, it...

April 9, 2013 | Jonathan Kay National Post |

The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing

The student union at York University in Toronto has voted...