What do you call an “antiracist” group led by an open ethnic/religious supremacist? Last year Israeli human rights group B’tselem published “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid.” The landmark report provides mainstream Jewish Israeli endorsement of what’s long been clear to Palestinians and the internationalist
Last week the Social Media Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Management released a report titled “The reach of Russian propaganda and disinformation in Canada”. According to lead author Anatoliy Gruzd, “the research provides evidence that the Kremlin’s disinformation is reaching more Canadians than one would expect. Left unchallenged, state-sponsored information operations can stoke
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Palestinians protest in front of the Canadian Embassy in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 4, 2014. (Photo: Shadi Hatem/APA Images)
Oddly one of the most significant institutional purveyors of anti-Palestinian bias in Canada operates largely below the radar. The Jewish Federations of North America, an umbrella organization representing nearly 150 organizations across Canada and the U.S., is known for supporting domestic Jewish education and funding charity projects in Israel, however, a number of Jewish federations in Canada lobby for Canadians to join the IDF in possible violation of local laws, and have run campaigns to malign Palestinians and their Jewish advocates.