More and more papers!

Today is new listing day! Three more independent papers from UofT, a French paper from Laval and the Queen's Journal all added to the independent section.

Thanks to all the people who have sent feedback or posted comments so far.

I just have one thing left to say: The pink stays.

Israel has a strange bedfellow at SFU

Only a few papers are publishing this summer, The Peak at Simon Fraser University in BC being one of them. An exchange in their recent issue has an op-ed that is worth reading, which (in my estimation), appears to be just barely pro-Israel. This response is in reaction to a letter which discusses, at length, "Israel's illegal and brutal occupation of Palestinian land."

The paper's weekly issues this summer have each contained a letter to this effect, with both pro-Israel and anti-Israel viewpoints being expressed.

The Peak is a paper which traditionally contains a lot of debate on the Israeli-Arab conflict, on both sides. It's well worth reading.

Day two - links have landed!

I've added links to some newspapers' websites, and I'm working on more. But a thought on CUP (not the utensil). I have separated my links into newspapers that are members of Canadian University Press and those that are not. Canadian University Press is a collective of student newspapers which, among other things, has a wire service. This is critical, because if stuff is on the newswire, like an article from Excal, and then the people out at UBC like it, they can print it. So we need to work nationally because the same issues come back again and again, and why should we all struggle individually when we can band together?

Preparing for launch!

A lot of people know that I've spent the last couple of years working on a way for Canadian students to share resources and information about campus media that pertains to Israel and Jewish students.

Here's my latest attempt.

I'm hoping to use this blog as a way that we Canadian students who care about Israel as well as campus media can share information on what is being said in different papers across the country.

While little goes on in campus papers in the summer, I plan to spend the summer creating things like links and subscriptions and stuff.

Comments, feedback, suggestions, etc. can be sent to aliza1019@excite.com.

Cheers!