The Zionist Lobby in Canadian Univiersities
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Apartheid at Canadian Universities.]
From: Linda Belanger (bel...@rogers.com)
Sent: February 18, 2009 6:56:07 PM
To:
A must read article on the lengths that some university presidents will
go to in order to shut down debate on Israeli Apartheid.
Note that the Zionist lobby has sent a number of university presidents
on free, all expenses paid indoctrination trip to Israel in the past few
years.
http://rabble.ca/news/exposed-university-toronto-suppressed-pro-palestinian-activism
Also, below is an excellent letter by a prof from Halifax about the
suppression of free speech on campus.
Forwarded message ----------
From: Judy Haiven <jha...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Subject: [IJV-SC] SAIA Anti-Apartheid week and Your censorship of it
Dear President Roseann Runte,
I am a Jewish- Canadian and an academic. I belong to Independent
Jewish Voices which is a cross-Canada Jewish organisation which is
against Israel's illegal and brutal occupation of the West Bank and
Gaza; we also support Palestinian human rights.
I was horrified to read that you and the Provost banned and
confiscated Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) posters at
Carleton University. These posters announced Isareli Apartheid Week.
Whatever you personally might think of Israeli Apartheid, respected
international figures such as Reverend Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter
have named it outright and condemned it.
While I, as a Jew, once had qualms about using the term Israeli
Apartheid --I no longer do. This is because especially since Israel's
last war on Gaza mere weeks ago, it has been clear to me and the broad
international community that Israel's deadly attacks were targetted at
defenceless civilians; that Israel destroyed Gaza and its
infrastructure; that Israel killed 1400 people, horribly maimed about
4,000 (a third of the killed and maimed were children) and
deliberately made 9,000 Palestinians homeless. Israel also used
chemical bombs on Palestinians. These are admitted matters of fact,
not fiction.
I am not the source for these reports however the Red Cross, Amnesty
International, Human Rights Watch and B'Tselem (the Israeli
Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) have
all agreed these murders and maimings and chemical bombings happened,
and that Israel was solely responsible for them.
So it seems Jewish students, or organisations such as the Canadian
Jewish Congress complained about the cartoon on the posters. I
understood they did not like the fact that the fighter aircraft is
about to drop a bomb on a Palestinian child holding a teddy bear. Well
sorry. This just happened IN REALITY, one month ago. Hundreds of
children died and more were terribly maimed and burned. While Israel
can certainly dish it out, Israel cannot "take it." Whenever there is
the slightest criticism of Israel -- its representatives in Canada --
namely the mainstream Jewish Congress or B'nai B'rith -- scream
unfair and demand to close down opposition. Israel's supporters insist
only they have the right to "frame" what is going on. And
unfortunately you -- as the President and the Provost -- fell into the
trap laid by Israel's supporters.
It is very important for students, faculty and the Canadian public to
know the truth about what is going on in Israel and Palestine. These
posters help increase awareness of what Israel is doing "on the
ground."
I think you owe SAIA an apology and should return their leaflets.
Their campaign is vital to human rights in Palestine and Israel and
the world over. Don't censor them.
--
Judy Haiven, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Management
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, NS
Canada B3H 3C3
tel: 902-491-8650
fax: 902-420-5119
home: 902-429-8868
email: jha...@smu.ca
Archie
wrote:
> The Zionist Lobby going all out to suppress free speech on Israeli
> Apartheid at Canadian Universities.]
> Sent: February 18, 2009 6:56:07 PM
> To:
>
> A must read article on the lengths that some university presidents will
> go to in order to shut down debate on Israeli Apartheid.
> Note that the Zionist lobby has sent a number of university presidents
> on free, all expenses paid indoctrination trip to Israel in the past few
> years.
>
>
> Also, below is an excellent letter by a prof from Halifax about the
> suppression of free speech on campus.
>
> Forwarded message ----------
The argument that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic has to be taken
on with clarity and in the open.
These apologists for mass murder are complicit in the slaughter of
Palestinians.
Scotius
<elbie_jo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>The Zionist Lobby going all out to suppress free speech on Israeli
>Apartheid at Canadian Universities.]?
Apartheid was the corrupt South African system of keeping
Black South Africans down, socially. The Israelis putting up a wall to
prevent suicide bombings does not constitute "apartheid", and to
suggest it does is to demean what the Black South Africans tolerated
for so long, not that Hannan Ashrawi would care about that mind you.
When a bunch of fresh faced (or not so fresh) teens decide
that because being pro-Palestinian is the "radical" and thus "cool"
thing to do, they need to shut up, or someone else needs to shut them
up.