Last fall, Public Safety Canada released a document claiming that anti-zionism is a form of antisemitism. Until recently, Zionism/anti-Zionism was mostly debated inside Jewish communities and activist circles. Few non Jews knew what Zionism was or what it meant. Or cared. But in the last few years, Zionism has become a subject of mainstream public-policy debate. This is true in most of the Western world. Why?
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Universities across North America are responding to a new thirst for knowledge and information about Israel/Palestine. In a development reminiscent of antivietnam war “teach-ins”, many are offering non credit lectures. In Ottawa, after Carleton University cancelled a popular course in response to what it called “complaints from the Jewish community”, the Ottawa Forum on Israel/Palestine filled the gap. It is now offering its third public lecture series this November. Read more
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Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has revoked the charitable status of ten Jewish Canadian charities since the summer of 2024, based on multiple violations of Canadian law including Israeli military support. Read more.
Canadian Zionists initially intended to focus the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on the Holocaust, antisemitism and the need for a Jewish State. Ironically, a tiny addition to the Museum referring to the Nakba, has turned that upside down by provoking a long overdue public discussion about the violence involved in the creation of Israel in 1948. Read more.
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Nearly two dozen Canadian parliamentarians joined with an estimated 350 Palestinian Canadians and their allies to celebrate the tenth annual “Parliament Day on the Hill” in Ottawa on May 25th.
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