Shimon Fogel, the Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA)— the primary Israel lobby group that falsely claims to represent Canada’s diverse Jewish communities— recently claimed in an article in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin that Israeli Apartheid Week has been “respectfully renamed ‘Islam Awareness Week’ at the University of Ottawa.” This, of course, is false. Israeli Apartheid Week happened to coincide with Islam Awareness Week this year on Ottawa campuses, but they have nothing to do with one another. CIJA_ENG_CMYK1CIJA, the advocacy arm of the Jewish Federations of Canada, has spent millions of dollars over the years concealing and distorting the truth about Israel’s systematic human rights violations, so that the mainstream Canadian Jewish community would continue to provide Israel with moral and financial support. It is hard to believe that Fogel, speaking for an organization that spends millions combating Palestine solidarity activism on campuses across the country, and that prides itself on carefully monitoring the campus political climate surrounding the Israel/Palestine issue, mistakenly assumed that Israeli Apartheid Week changed its name to Islam Awareness Week at the University of Ottawa.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 13:25:21 +0000
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