Hymie Rubenstein
Hymie Rubenstein, a retired professor of anthropology at the University of Manitoba, is editor of --REAL Indigenous Report.
Most Recent Articles by Hymie Rubenstein:
Federal power guarantees the province's nine ‘yes’ votes will mean absolutely nothing;
Fake Indigenous Law Subverts Formal Canadian Law
October 18, 2026
This decision speaks volumes about the need to reconsider the causes and consequences of the racially and ethnically discriminatory Gladue principles and sentencing circle recommendations;
Canada should be celebrating Columbus Day, too
October 12, 2026
Next Thanksgiving Day, let us also celebrate Christopher Columbus's life and achievements;
The BC “Land Back” movement is now in overdrive
August 20, 2026
Majorities have also expressed concern that private property rights are being subordinated to vague collective ones rooted in indigenous storytelling;
Trump needs to free the Cuban people
February 23, 2026
With friends like Fidel Castro and his political successors, ordinary Canadians and Cubans need no enemies;
In retrospect, in the interest of full equality with non-indigenous people, both the British government and Canada's founders should have treated the indigenous people in precisely the same manner that such people were treated around the world;
Canada has been deceived about its founder
January 3, 2026
A fair-minded review of Macdonald's contributions to our country, as both a Father of Confederation and as a strong advocate for its Indigenous peoples, suggests that he is one that we need to keep;
No indigenous truth or reconciliation, 10 years later
December 19, 2025
Assuming that Tagala’s emotion-logged diatribe is well-intentioned, it is still coming from an activist with little indigenous ancestry and even less enculturation to indigenous lifeways;
What Mehanna’s “Christmas in Palestine” display does is transform a Christian celebration into land claims and grievances about the war between Hamas and Israel;
“A museum dedicated to addressing contested histories, even when they are controversial, betrays Palestinians, Jews, truth and their own expressed mandate. That is the real Nakba.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has flatly dismissed South Africa’s genocide allegations against Israel, calling them a shameless and dishonest attack on Jewish people and the Jewish state;
Man the ramparts, the Muslims are at the gates!
October 23, 2025
With all this biased ethno-religious baggage weighing her down, only some of which are listed here, it is no wonder that calls for Elghawaby’s dismissal have never subsided;
The mythical underpinnings of Palestinian statehood
September 30, 2025
Historical and factual ignorance or denial, Arab propaganda, left-liberal guilt, and outright antisemitism serve to legitimize a demand for a sovereign Palestinian state where none has ever existed;
Manitoba NDP Minister Again Under Fire For Derogatory Charlie Kirk Comments
September 18, 2025
Fontaine reshared a post on Instagram that called the slain 31-year-old political commentator a "racist, xenophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic" individual;
CBC continues to display its anti-Israel bias
August 13, 2025
This biased, one-sided, factually blind coverage surely explains why CBC is routinely labelled as anti-Israel, a bias many observers would equate with full-blown antisemitism, the world’s oldest hate;
Hamas is a doomsday terrorist organization. It will never surrender so long as one member is still alive
“Who else among our 22 [now 24] other prime ministers has done more than Sir John A. Macdonald did for his country?”
The deceptive refrain of indigenous truth and reconciliation
The Canadian “big lie” that will live in infamy
May 30, 2025
It is impossible to sustain an argument that residential schools functioned as “concentration camps” or that the government’s intent was the “genocidal” removal of all indigenous children from their parents
This is a “political agenda” that was roundly rejected only a few months ago, an agenda that seemed destined to yield a majority Conservative government save for an irrational fear of Donald Trump’s alleged territorial ambitions
University of British Columbia faculty lawsuit against indigenous land acknowledgements and EDI requirements
Alas, the comparatively benevolent treatment of our indigenous peoples from first contact to today is an observation never made by indigenous activists and their elected federal government supporters
Yes, Canada should be absorbed by America
March 16, 2025
The shrill comments of many commentators about Trump’s wish to peacefully absorb Canada tells me that Johnson’s notion of “false patriotism” is alive, if not well, in Canada.
Only time will tell whether this or other explanations help explain the four tragic murders on the Carry the Kettle Nakoda Indian Reserve
Heller is seeking an apology, a retraction and damages
money, equality, indigenous, Endless dependency, rampant sexual abuse, transparently fraudulent reconciliation, too many indigenous people will never have a chance to achieve their deservedly equal place in Canadian society
Most of all, the cultural genocide charge is rooted in weak social science because it ignores the indisputable fact that human beings can internalize features of two or more cultures
Who Denied Statehood to the Palestinian People?
January 15, 2025
As for Israel, its disappearance is not going to happen. Until the so-called Palestinians and their regional and global enablers accept this reality, they will never be granted statehood.
America frantically playing “indigenous science” catch up with Canada
December 30, 2024
But when two neighbouring countries accept pre-scientific concepts as equal partners with scientific ones, intellectual and political chaos are bound to be the only outcomes
There are far better grounds for banishing tens of thousands of abusive sexually predatory indigenous men as well