Review of Yves Engler's Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid http://www.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/3220

“The Canadian media largely opposed the boycott of South Africa even though Canada was less complicit with that form of apartheid than the current Israeli version…More than two decades after the Sharpeville massacre and six years after Soweto exploded, the Globe and Mail argued that ‘disinvestment would be unwittingly an ally of apartheid’ since Canadian investments brought progressive ideas.” 

Many who complain the loudest about the use of the word “apartheid” to describe Israel do not have a track record of opposition to South African apartheid. In his previous book, (The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy) Engler revealed that Canadian public and private support for South African apartheid was obscured by policies that officially opposed it. Opponents of Israeli apartheid have many important lessons to learn from that struggle and from Engler’s fine work.