The CPCCA should be reconfigured to combat racism against all peoples

By Harry Shannon

Published on rabble.ca

November 8, 2010

In 1987, when caught in a lie about the Iran-Contra affair, President Ronald Reagan infamously said : “My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.”

In 2010, Liberal MP Irwin [...]

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VIDEO on Antisemitism politics: Threat is from the new McCarthyism NOT the new antisemitism

Independant Jewish Voices-Canada has released a new video:

Defend Free Speech: The threat is from the new McCarthyism NOT the new antisemitism.

It is a strong refutation of the legitimacy of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism (CPCCA) meeting today and tomorrow. The Harper government has given [...]

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Fox News’ anti-Semitism problem

Rupert Murdoch claimed in a recent speech that “the most virulent strains” of anti-Semitism “come from the left.” However, his own Fox News personalities have a history of promoting anti-Semitic sources and mainstreaming people who have associations with anti-Semitic groups.

* Beck cited book from Nazi supporter Elizabeth Dilling on his radio show. * [...]

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Bedouins under Israeli control. NY Times video

Opinion | Nicholas D. Kristof The West Bank – What About Fairness?

Protest of Bedouins communities, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 12 , 2010

Nicholas D. Kristof reports on the living conditions of Bedouins who live under Israeli control in the Southern Hebron Hills in the West Bank.

To watch video, [...]

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Le Bloc se retire de la Coalition de lutte contre l’antisémitisme (CPCCA) / Bloc Quits CPCCA

(English below)

De Hélène Buzetti

Le Devoir, 20 mars 2010

Ottawa – Le Bloc québécois a décidé hier de se retirer de la Coalition parlementaire canadienne de lutte contre l’antisémitisme parce qu’il juge celle-ci «biaisée» en faveur d’Israël et contre les Palestiniens.

La Coalition parlementaire canadienne de lutte contre l’antisémitisme (CPCCA, de son acronyme anglais) [...]

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THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARY COALITION TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM: WHAT IT MEANS FOR CANADIANS 

“One Year Later…Gaza Remembered”, Talk given on January 30, 2010, at Vancouver Public Library

by Joanne Naiman

We are here tonight primarily to hear about the effects of an illegal occupation and war on the people of Gaza, and to express our solidarity with the [...]

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IJV Press Release: Jewish group slams Minister Kenny’s attack on Kairos

OTTAWA, Dec. 21 /CNW Telbec/ – Independent Jewish Voices-Canada (IJV) condemns Immigration Minister Kenny’s politicized move to defund social-justice church-group Kairos, which received government funding for 35 years. Kenny said this occurred because, in 2007, Kairos offered a grant to Sabeel, a Palestinian NGO that doesn’t mirror Conservative policy.

“This is [...]

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Freedom of speech: the realities of campus criticism of Israel

The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics

by David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi

Tikkun Magazine septembre – october 2009

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains one of the most visible political issues on campuses around the nation. A rising level of concern about the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory (now in its fifth decade), [...]

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DEFEND OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH / DEFENDEZ NOTRE LIBÉRTÉ DE L’EXPRESSION

CLICK HERE AND FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE HEARINGS OF THIS PARLIAMENTARY COALITION AND SIGN THE PETITION /

CLIQUEZ ICI POUR DES RENSEIGNEMENTS SUR LA COALITION PARLEMENTAIRE ET SIGNER LA PÉTITION

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Wrong way to “fight anti-Semitism”

Vancouver, BC

EDITORIAL: From the Sept./Oct. 2009, issue

The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism, made up of MPs from various parties, was convened this summer, arising from the earlier London Conference to Combat Anti-Semitism. In its introductory statement inviting [...]

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