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The whole world has reacted with disbelief, if not ridicule, to Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu's suggestion that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, and not Hitler, was the instigator of the Holocaust.

This blog post in Independent Jewish Voices' rabble.ca blog series "Debunking Hasbara" interrogates the public relations (Hasbara) claim that Israel must be recognized as a "Jewish state" in order for peace to be reached with its neighbours. 

It seems like it's been around forever, but believe it or not the demand by Israel to be recognized as a "Jewish state" is only eight-years old. Indeed, it is merely the latest of a long string of ploys to make a just peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours impossible. Practically every time that its neighbours have launched a peace initiative, Israel, feeling threatened thereby, has constructed a way to up the ante so as to frustrate the project.

Back when I was in the MBA program at the University of Alberta in 1984, a wily professor put the cat among the pigeons. He asked us students to consider whether corporations should forget about charity and good works and simply… pay their taxes.

The concluding piece in this year's Alternative Provincial Budget for Nova Scotia is written by Larry Haiven, who is Professor of Management, Saint Mary's University. He has been involved in the alternative budgets for at least a decade. Larry wrote this when the Alternative Budget Working Group expressed dismay over the dominant negative discourse about Nova Scotia from pundits in certain sectors of the province. It was to be a take-off of the idea 'you're richer than you think,' or the Nova Scotia version 'we suck less than you think.' We had this discussion before the One Nova Scotia Report was released, but now this article serves as a rejoinder.

There are two Nova Scotias.