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A Toronto District School Board staffer who’s been on home assignment for more than a month for distributing two virulently anti-Israel manuals is moderating an online panel for educators next week that features four speakers who have been very public about their anti-Zionist sentiments.
Javier Davila, who is on leave from the board’s Gender-based Violence unit and under investigation, has been busily promoting the June 30 online seminar entitled
Teaching Palestine: An Introduction for Educators.
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A Toronto District School Board staffer who’s been on home assignment for more than a month for distributing two virulently anti-Israel manuals is moderating…
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When Toronto couple David and Karen flew to Israel 10 days ago they figured finally after their daughter had to cancel her wedding plans twice during COVID that they’d be three times lucky.
After all, as of May 13 56% of Israelis have been fully vaccinated, COVID cases are down to about 30 a day and almost 90% of the country is open, David says.
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David, who spoke to me Friday morning from Jerusalem, said everyone is very nervous and can’t believe they got through COVID only to go through “this craziness.”
by Yves Engler / May 11th, 2021
Why are Cindy Blackstock, Charles Taylor, Pearl Eliadis, Murray Sinclair and Thomas Mulcair publicly associating themselves with alleged pedophile Alan Dershowitz?
Why are the indigenous advocate, philosopher
, human rights lawyer, former senator and former NDP leader supporting the anti-Palestinian lobby’s bid to crush a small left-wing Toronto restaurant?
Why have they offered their names to a ‘human rights’ organization run by a vicious anti-Palestinian who aggressively criticizes ‘enemy’ states while largely ignoring rights violations committed by Canada and the US?
Dershowitz, Blackstock, Eliadis, etc. are all “senior fellows” of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. When appointing Dershowitz, Blackstock, Eliadis, Taylor, Sinclair and others as senior fellows in 2017 Irwin Cotler told the press they were “chosen for their singular contributions to the struggle for peace and justice in our time.”