By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Somewhat overlooked in the massive victory of the Labour Party in the July 5 British general election has been the ability… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, has spent the past few weeks travelling to various capitals on a “peace mission&rd… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Winnipeg] Jewish Post As in other western countries, Australian Jews have been targeted by boycotts, harassment, and intimidation since the Gaza war began last Oct… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Fredericton, NB] Daily Gleaner South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled a new coalition government July 1, after his ruling African National Congres… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Belgium went to the polls on June 9. But the country doesn’t really have a “national” election. There are se… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian Following the first round of the French elections to the National Assembly June 30, most commentators highlighted the significant gain… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Winnipeg] Jewish Post & News Is so-called “anti-Zionism” antisemitic? It was not always so. Prior to the Holocaust and the creation of a Jewish sta… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Everyone in Europe is watching France as its election for the National Assembly nears June 30. It could become a watershed mom… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian Belgium doesn’t really have a “national” election. The country is split between Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-s… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Winnipeg] Jewish Post Is so-called “anti-Zionism” antisemitic? It was not always so. Prior to the Holocaust and the creation of a Jewish state, many Je… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal The Ukraine war drags on with no end in sight. At first, western observers assumed Moscow would gain a speedy victory. When th… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Winnipeg] Jewish Post Anyone reading the Jewish Post knows full well the extent of antisemitism raging across Canada now. Not a day goes by when some horrific eve… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal They go by different names. They are citizens and have full constitutional and legal rights.  They are the descendants o… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian How will India relate to its Asian neighbours following its recent general election? Although the election results saw a downturn in… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal I am probably the only writer starting a column about the incoming president of Mexico by citing a once-prominent Marxist the… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal What will Gaza look like when the current war between Hamas and Israel finally ends? Who will rule and try to reconstruct the… Read More

 Henry Srebrnik, [Halifax] Chronicle Herald After eight months of war in Gaza, calm has been maintained between the Jewish and Arab sectors in Israel, despite concerns expressed by the… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Moncton, NB]  Times & Transcript Hungary has cultivated warm relations with not only Russia, but also a host of other authoritarian countries Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian Last fall Egypt was on the brink of economic collapse. By February, Cairo’s public debt was 89 per cent of its gross domestic pr… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Winnipeg] Jewish Post  First of all, before I go any further, we should get something straight: this whole so-called debate about anti-Zionism vs antisemitis… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the animus against Russia in western countries resulted in rewrit… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian The devastating war in Sudan is now in its second year and rages on unabated with no sign of an end on the horizon. It has devastated… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal The small states of the Caribbean who belong to CARICOM (the Caribbean Community) are not often heard from when it comes to i… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Germany is wrestling with a debate over whether to ban the right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which many consider… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian Led by the left-wing Armed Forces Movement and supported by most of the population, the so-called Carnation Revolution not only brough… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Fredericton, NB] Daily Gleaner On April 13, Iran launched a massive aerial attack against Israel. Britain and the United States helped Israel defend itself against… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian In the wake of the Gaza war, the so-called two-state solution – an Israeli and Palestinian state side by side -- has been resurr… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Everyone understands that Lebanon is, by any measure, a failed state, paralyzed by its sectarianism. Its various Christian, Dr… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal South Africa’s Chief Rabbi, Dr. Warren Goldstein, addressed the Congressional Summit of the American Israel Public Affai… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal On March 24, opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye won Senegal’s presidential election against former prime ministe… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journalhe Caribbean nation of Haiti, the western third of the island of Hispaniola, has been an independent state f… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Sydney, N.S.] Cape Breton PostSouth Africa’s Chief Rabbi, Dr. Warren Goldstein, addressed the Congressional Summit of the American Israel… Read More

   By Henry Srebrnik, [Winnipeg] Jewish Post  As we know, the historic Black American-Jewish alliance in the United States, so prominent during the civil rights movement of t… Read More

By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal I’m guessing that most Canadians, if they’re not ostriches, now realize that the Chinese government has for quite a long… Read More

 Henry Srebrnik, [Halifax] Chronicle Herald Mehran Kamrava is Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service i… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Hamas’s assault on Israel last Oct. 7 was, in its brutality, more than an act of war. In its fury, the mass violence enac… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-JournalA report released Jan. 24 by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) confirmed what other polls have suggested:… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian In 2024, far right parties in Europe may win elections in both Austria and Belgium, while Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) l… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian In 2004, the late Barry Bartmann and I, professors of political science at the University of Prince Edward Island, along with an acade… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Iran has threatened to hold the United States and Great Britain “accountable” following a series of joint strikes b… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Winnipeg] Jewish Post  By Henry Srebrnik Between 1969, when the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) was founded by forty-seven scholars in Boston, and now… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Due to their involvement in the current Gaza war, the Houthis of Yemen are on the front pages of newspapers and in television n… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal India’s ruling party won a resounding victory in regional elections last November, wresting control of key states away fr… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal When Hamas attacked Israel last Oct. 7, China at first assumed the latest fighting was no different from past conflicts between… Read More

By Henry Srebrnik, [Halifax] Chronicle Herald As we approach the second anniversary of the Ukraine war, things are not going well for that country. The nation’s top military chief, V… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian Immigration has become a major political issue in an election year likely to see a rematch between former Republican Preside… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Given Africa’s many problems, any interest shown by a major power can only prove helpful. American Secretary of State Ant… Read More

 Henry Srebrnik, [Halifax] Chronicle Herald For the second year in a row, the humanitarian agency CARE International has reported that all ten of the most under-reported world crises a… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal The troubles keep mounting in Africa’s second most populous state, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. There are… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Sydney, N.S.] Cape Breton Post Last week, Iran fired missiles into Syria, Pakistan, and Iraqi Kurdistan, claiming to target Islamic State affiliates in the first… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal More than 1,500 antisemitic incidents have been recorded in France between Oct. 7, the day Hamas attacked Israel, and mid-Novem… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Russia’s pro-Palestinian stance has underscored a shift in relations between Moscow and Jerusalem since the Oct. 7 Hamas… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian After the attack in southern Israel carried out by Hamas last Oct. 7, Russia declined to condemn Hamas’s actions, expressing on… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal A chaotic presidential election held Dec. 20-21 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has fueled unrest in the country… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal It is overly simplistic to refer to “the Israel-Palestine conflict.” Hamas belongs to the Islamist “resistanc… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Winnipeg] Jewish Post & News We are now three months past the horrific Hamas attack on Israel, and things get worse, not better, as antisemitic activities hav… Read More

By Henry Srebrnik, [Halifax] Chronicle Herald Since the outbreak of the Gaza war, Iran has led a regional and international diplomatic effort to mobilize support for Hamas and reach an end… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian On Dec. 11, the Houthi regime in Yemen declared a blockade of all Israeli and Israel-related shipping through the Bab al-Mandab Strait… Read More

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  By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Most Latin American governments initially criticized the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, though some also expressed solidarity… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Wars have political consequences, even in countries not directly involved. It may be no coincidence that the Oct. 7 Hamas attac… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian When Henry Kissinger died recently, he was already, so to speak, a legend. Her was clearly the most important American Secretary of St… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Apart from serving as Secretary of State under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1973 and 1977, Henry Kissinger… Read More

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 By Henry Srebrnik, [Winnipeg] Jewish Post & News The war between Israel and Hamas has exposed for all to see just how nasty some of our institutions of higher learning have become… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Drawing on Turkey’s geo-strategic position, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refrained from taking definitive sides in… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Argentina is in a mess. But nothing new there – it has been that way for many decades. It’s almost a test case of a… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Why has Africa experienced so many military coups d’état? Since 1960, the continent has seen almost 120 successful… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal A century ago, Canada’s contacts with the rest of the world were almost wholly through Great Britain and the United Stat… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian When Hamas launched its attack against Israel on Oct. 7, some observers were quick to suspect the Moscow-Tehran axis at work. Official… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal When you seem in danger of losing an upcoming election, one way of retaining support is by criticizing your historical enemies… Read More

 Henry Srebrnik, [Halifax] Chronicle Herald What do Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and now Vladimir Putin have in common? They are Russian leaders who invaded bordering states be… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Following a military offensive that began on Sept. 19, Azerbaijan put an end to the unrecognized 32-year-old Republic of Artsak… Read More

By  Henry Srebrnik, [Halifax] Chronicle Herald Some observers have suggested Qatar as a possible mediator between Israel and Hamas, but Henry Srebrnik questions whether this is really… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal The popularity of the right-wing Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) is surging in Germany. It is now the second strongest part… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian Post-pandemic American downtowns have yet to recover from the three-year COVID pandemic. In fact they find themselves in a continuing… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal The outbreak of war in Sudan illustrates the perilous trajectories facing “hybrid” regimes around the world. Just a… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Singapore is not Hong Kong – and that’s a good thing. Nor is it any longer part of the Malaysian Federation –… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Sydney, N.S.] Cape Breton Post The populistic despair in large sections of the American electorate that propelled Donald Trump to power in 2016 and continues to su… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Earlier in my academic career at the University of Prince Edward Island, I was involved with the Institute of Island Studies. M… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Utter the words “nine eleven” and what instantly comes to mind? The attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Penta… Read More

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 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian Is the sun about to set on Britain’s control of the Chagos Islands? This archipelago of around 60 islands can be found halfway b… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal This past July 26, armed troops in Niger overthrew the government, arrested the elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, and seized p… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Sydney, N.S.] Cape Breton Post Remember these two numbers: 15.4 and 71.5. I’ll explain. Following the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, millions of et… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Sydney, N.S.] Cape Breton Post The possible normalization of Israeli-Saudi Arabian relations is in the news, following emerging signs that the United States is rea… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Moncton, NB]  Times & Transcript The Jewish population of Israel is probably one of the most racially diverse groups in the world. Israel is a melting pot… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian People following news from Africa know that the Niger military recently mounted a coup against a democratically elected president. Moh… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Moncton, NB]  Times & Transcript Malaysia’s fourteenth general election in November 2022 produced a 19-party coalition government led by Anwar Ibrah… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Moncton, NB]  Times & Transcript If we have indeed entered into a new cold war, Washington is again attempting to encircle its two major adversaries, Russ… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal In July 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden visited Israel. He hailed their strategic partnership and pointed to “a bedrock of… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Sydney, N.S.] Cape Breton Post In July 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden visited Israel. He hailed their strategic partnership and pointed to “a bedrock of share… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Moncton, NB]  Times & Transcript In France, the violent protests against racism that erupted last month have wound down, but the political aftermath of th… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Sydney, N.S.] Cape Breton Post It’s hard to get your head around the amount of damage, both physical and political, France has suffered in the country’… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Fredericton, NB] Daily Gleaner Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the recent actions of the Wagner Group and its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose brazen mu… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has frightened minorities… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Charlottetown, PEI] Guardian Nearly two months after it was convulsed by ethnic violence, the northeast Indian state of Manipur is teetering on what many believe i… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the United States last week was a gala occasion. America needs Indi… Read More

  By Henry Srebrnik, [Sydney, N.S.] Cape Breton Post A strategic shift has emerged over the last decade and a half in the eastern Mediterranean as Israel, Greece, and Cyprus increasing… Read More

 By Henry Srebrnik, [Saint John, N.B.] Telegraph-Journal For Iranians, the last nine months have been extraordinarily turbulent. Since last September, when Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old I… Read More