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February 27, 2010 Ontario MPPs vote to condemn the use of the word "apartheid" on campus! Torstar - MPPs decry linking Israel to `apartheid' Progressive Conservative MPP Peter Shurman (Thornhill) tabled the motion Thursday to denounce the sixth annual provocative campus event that kicks off next week at universities and colleges in 35 cities around the world. Toronto Sun article including outraged reader comments on this story. South Africans speak out on Israeli Apartheid.
February 14, 2010 CJPME - Gaza Photo Exhibit Threatened with Closure A legal representative of Redbourne, Lieba Shell, sent an email late in the day to the exposition host, Cinema du Parc, ordering the removal of the exposition and threatening legal action if the exposition were not taken down by evening. Cinema du Parc and Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) - the producer of the exposition - asserted through their legal advisor, Mark H. Arnold, that such threats from Redbourne were not lawful. Click here to send an e-mail in support of CJPME's photo exhibit. UPDATE - CJPME and Cinema du Parc win battle to host Gaza exhibit
Macleans - A losing battle: How the late president of Rights and Democracy tried to fight back Beauregard was responding now, in June, because it had taken three months for him to get his hands on the evaluation. Braun, Gauthier and Tepper had sent it to the federal government without showing it to Beauregard. They had fought his attempts to get a copy of his own job evaluation for months, incurring hefty legal bills. Finally, Beauregard submitted a request to the Foreign Affairs Department for his personal information under the Privacy Act. Braun, Tepper and Gauthier were shocked when Beauregard showed up with a copy of their handiwork and started reading his response.
February 10, 2010 Intimidation of SAIA (Students Against Israeli Apartheid) by JDL at York University The provocations and intimidating presence of the JDL is no coincidence. These provocations, trespassing of the JDL and students affiliating themselves with this hate group increase as the approach Israeli Apartheid Week draws nearer (March 1-7th, 2010). Last year at York, Palestinian solidarity activists and Palestinian students/activists had to face the same forms of intimidation. These provocations are intended to create the false impression that York campus is not safe for Jewish students because of Israeli Apartheid Week. [These provocations come as no surprise. The instigators may well have links to the unknown funders of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism set up by Jason Kenney and Irwin Cotler. Don't be surprised if during Israeli Apartheid Week this year (March 1-6), the just returned from prorogation government enacts emergency legislation to deal with alleged antisemitism on Canadian campuses. WAKE UP CANADA - THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE IS NOW AN ISSUE OF CANADIAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS!!]
February 7, 2010 Torstar - Foreign groups criticize Tory appointees to rights agency The Harper government is being accused of trying to gag legitimate criticism of Israel, amid a bitter dispute over alleged Conservative interference with a government-funded rights agency. Dozens of foreign non-governmental organizations that work in the field of human rights have written an open letter denouncing actions by Tory appointees on the board of Montreal-based Rights and Democracy. And a former president of the arms-length agency, former Liberal cabinet minister Warren Allmand, is accusing the government of “a deliberate attempt ... to dampen and control public dissent and accountability.”
CBC The National - Is Stephen Harper Canada's most pro-Israel Prime Minister This is a very bold report by the CBC. In it, Wendy Mesley talks about Harper's cuts to Kairos and UNRWA and the Rights and Democracy controversy. At approximately 5 minutes into the report she interviews Frank Dimant of B'nai Brith who praises Harper for not trying to be an honest broker, not trying to weigh both sides and compares Palestinians to Nazis. The clip is followed by reader comments that clearly indicate that most Canadians do not share Stephen Harper or Frank Dimant's views.February 4, 2010 G&M - Conservatives cracking down on criticism of Israel, NGOs warn The Harper government is being accused of trying to gag legitimate criticism of Israel amid a bitter dispute over alleged Conservative interference with a government-funded rights agency. Dozens of foreign non-governmental organizations that work in the field of human rights have written an open letter denouncing actions by Tory appointees on the board of Montreal-based Rights and Democracy.
January 22, 2010 rabble.ca - Policy and prejudice: De-funding Canadian aid projects Kenney's office justified the "defunding" by citing "critical comments" made by NGO Monitor (NGOM).... Although using language that would appear neutral, NGOM is a highly partisan organization that weakens universal human rights by its fixation on shielding Israel from accountability and charging some of the most respected international human rights organizations with bias against Israel. According to NGOM, these include Christian Aid, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Oxfam, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Médecins Sans Frontières.
January 17, 2010 Toronto Star - Canada redirects funding for UN relief agency Is Canada pulling the plug on the UN's Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides education, health and other social services in 59 Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East? Will UNRWA's Canadian funding be diverted instead to training Palestinian police forces and building courthouses and prisons? That's certainly what was suggested on Wednesday by Treasury Minister Vic Toews in both the Jerusalem Post and a news release from B'nai Brith Canada. Toews, who met on Monday with senior Palestinian Authority (PA) officials in the occupied West Bank, is quoted by the Post saying, "Canada is not reducing the amount of money given to the PA, but it is now being redirected in accordance with Canadian values." ( In other words, Canada will now be funding the PA apparatus that helps Israel enforce the occupation instead of funding the agency that provides aid to the Palestinians. This new Canadian policy is announced by Minister Vic Toews from Jerusalem and the information disseminated in a B'nai Brith press release and in the Jerusalem Post. In addition, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney has been in Israel at least twice this year. Where is Canadians policy being made these days?)
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