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April 12, 2010 CAUT - Coordinated Campaign Aimed to Stifle Academic Discussion about Israel Raises Critical Questions April 7, 2010 Update
on the Parent Central article posted yesterday (Jewish groups say
award-winning children's book could 'incite hatred and
violence). The Toronto District School Board just sent a memo today to its principals saying it would not ban
the book and that board policies already in place on the teaching of
"controversial" materials are sufficient. So we had
a victory. The Lobby simply does not get it: the criticism
of Israel will only stop when it stops its human rights abuses and
bullying. The majority of the comments from the Parent Central section of the Toronto Star are supportive of the TDSB's decision. April 6, 2010 Parent Central - Jewish groups say award-winning children's book could 'incite hatred and violence' This is quite a strong statement from the Catholic Bishops who have to date remained silent on the topic of Israel's abuses.... Letter from Catholic Bishops to Stephen Harper regarding the situation in the Holy Land While fully respecting and endorsing the right and need of Israeli citizens to be able to live in security, our Conference is also aware that there are many people in the Middle East growing increasingly frustrated, impatient and even hostile because of various security measures imposed by the State of Israel. Thus ironically, today’s efforts to improve security may have the unintended but inevitable effect of spawning future insecurity.
March 21, 2010 Progressive Jews Welcome Defeat of Motion Condemning Israeli Apartheid Week OTTAWA, March 12 /CNW Telbec/ - Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), a national network of Jewish human-rights activists, welcomes yesterday's defeat of MP Tim Uppal's House of Commons motion condemning Israeli Apartheid Week. Palestinian member of Israeli Knesset(MK) to denounce Israeli apartheid in Quebec's National Assembly tomorrow March 11, 2010 CPNO - The Canadian Parliamentary Farce to Combat Antisemitism The CPCCA invited all the Canadian universities to send representatives. Sadly, only a few representatives showed up (it was snowing that day). Dr. Fred Lowy, former Concordia University president set the tone with a bummer of a statement: “By and large, Canadian campuses are safe and are not hotbeds of antisemitism of any kind.”
March 3, 2010 Dear Mr. Ignatieff: My jaw drops every time I read your statement of March 1, 2010 on Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). For a man of reputed intelligence, the number of errors and red herrings in it are quite astounding. You must take us all for fools. My rebuttals to your points are in red below. “On university campuses across the country this week, Israeli Apartheid Week will once again attempt to demonize and undermine the legitimacy of the Jewish state. [No, IAW will once again focus on the need for justice and basic human rights for the Palestinian people . If anything, it is Israel 's policies that demonize it.]
“When I looked down at the West Bank, at the settlements like Crusader forts occupying the high ground, at the Israeli security cordon along the Jordan river closing off the Palestinian lands from Jordan, I knew I was not looking down at a state or the beginnings of one, but at a Bantustan, one of those pseudo-states created in the dying years of apartheid to keep the African population under control.”
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