Re: “Harassed, isolated and abandoned: Jewish teachers 'scared for life' at Ontario school board”

"The banality of evil as Arendt wrote about, after the Adolf Eichmann trial, can only be prevented in this generation by the teaching and practise of universal values, human rights and critical thinking, not escaping into echo chambers of victimhood." Continue reading

 

Thanks for highlighting HWDS’ actions to protect pro-palestine students

"I applaud students today who are engaging in contemporary issues, protesting atrocities even worse in some ways than what concerned us. I don not recall any state violence where 135 children a day are being killed by the aggressor as is the case with Israel’s bombardment of Gaza." Continue reading

 

Correction needed to specify the Palestinian death toll

"Finally, your article omits the Palestinian death toll. This further skews the balance of the story and makes it one-sided. The Palestinian death toll is more than ten times higher than the Israeli one." Continue reading

 

Biased article conflates antisemitism with anti-Zionism

"Your article does not give voice to students from the Muslim, Palestinian, and Arab communities about how they feel on campus. In contrast, you give voice to Noah Greenfield, a Jewish student and president of Hillel Winnipeg. The university’s newspaper has expressed some of the relevant views here." Continue reading

 

Unfair interpretation of "from the river to the sea" chant

"This is different than the usual chant which calls for “Palestine” to be free. The critique you’ve included above simply does not apply in the same way, not to mention that it is highly problematic to begin with." Continue reading

 

Thanks for giving space to Palestinian voices and their reality

"I was especially shocked to hear that her family is sheltering in a storage room with 50 other families with no clean water, not enough food, or necessities and that some smugglers are asking 10,000 USD to cross the border." Continue reading

 

Re: “#MeToo — unless you’re Israeli”

"Recall that claims of 40 beheaded Israeli babies circulated in the fog of war. There is still no evidence. When the beheaded babies story started to fall apart, new top stories emerged, like the sexual assault allegations. Skepticism was justified, given the context." Continue reading

 

False assertion that Palestinians and Jewish people live in peace

"How can it be peaceful if Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed, kicked out of their homes, imprisoned for no reason, cannot vote, cannot move, are met with checkpoints, and Palestinian refugees cannot return to their homeland?" Continue reading

 

Re: "CP Rail protesters should be prosecuted"

"This type of language has no place in Canada, and Betty should revise the Rights and Laws of Canada since hate speech is prosecutable under Criminal law." Continue reading

 

Thank you for citing Professor Finkelstein’s work and sharing his story

"I am astonished that so many journalists in Canada want to silent voices critical of the IDF, and the actions of the State of Israel, when so many of your colleagues have not only been silenced, but killed." Continue reading