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Continue readingCanadian Firebrand: Heaven and earth unmoved
Despite Sheila Ward’s promise to “move heaven and earth to have The Shepherd’s Granddaughter taken off the school library shelves” the Toronto District School Board announced yesterday that they have rejected the demand by Brian Henry and B’nai Brith that the book be withdrawn. According to TDSB official Lloyd McKell:
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Despite Sheila Ward’s promise to “move heaven and earth to have The Shepherd’s Granddaughter taken off the school library shelves” the Toronto District School Board announced yesterday that they have rejected the demand by Brian Henry and B’nai Brith that the book be withdrawn. According to TDSB official Lloyd McKell:
Continue readingAndy Lehrer's Firebrand blog: Heaven and earth unmoved
Despite Sheila Ward’s promise to “move heaven and earth to have The Shepherd’s Granddaughter taken off the school library shelves” the Toronto District School Board announced yesterday that they have rejected the demand by Brian Henry and B’nai Brith that the book be withdrawn. According to TDSB official Lloyd McKell:
Continue readingCanadian Firebrand: Trustee Sheila Ward wants to ban a book she hasn’t read
Toronto District School Board Trustee Sheila Ward (Toronto Centre) told the Jewish Tribune this week that she will “move heaven and earth to have The Shepherd’s Granddaughter taken off the school library shelves” in response to a demand by B’nai Brith Canada and parent Brian Henry that the book be
Continue readingAndy Lehrer's Firebrand blog: Trustee Sheila Ward wants to ban a book she hasn’t read
Toronto District School Board Trustee Sheila Ward (Toronto Centre) told the Jewish Tribune this week that she will “move heaven and earth to have The Shepherd’s Granddaughter taken off the school library shelves” in response to a demand by B’nai Brith Canada and parent Brian Henry that the book be
Continue readingAndy Lehrer's Firebrand blog: Tim Uppal’s anti-Israeli Apartheid Week motion has been defeated!
Finally, some politicians are starting to stand up to the attempts by Israel’s supporters to limit discussion through intimidation. This letter comes from MP Libby Davies: Dear Friends, Thank you so much for taking the time to write and express your views about the motion proposed by a Conservative MP,
Continue readingCanadian Firebrand: Tim Uppal’s anti-Israeli Apartheid Week motion has been defeated!
Finally, some politicians are starting to stand up to the attempts by Israel’s supporters to limit discussion through intimidation. This letter comes from MP Libby Davies: Dear Friends, Thank you so much for taking the time to write and express your views about the motion proposed by a Conservative MP,
Continue readingCanadian Firebrand: Ignatieff and Israel
Which federal party leader said this about Israel back in 2002? When I looked down at the West Bank, at the settlements like Crusader forts occupying the high ground, at the Israeli security cordon along the Jordan river closing off the Palestinian lands from Jordan, I knew I was not
Continue readingAndy Lehrer's Firebrand blog: Ignatieff and Israel
Which federal party leader said this about Israel back in 2002? When I looked down at the West Bank, at the settlements like Crusader forts occupying the high ground, at the Israeli security cordon along the Jordan river closing off the Palestinian lands from Jordan, I knew I was not
Continue readingAndy Lehrer's Firebrand blog: Gerry Caplan satirises the Rights & Democracy affair
Gerry Caplan’s column in the Globe and Mail has taken on the Harper government’s patronizing attempt to pander to the Jewish community for several months now. Stephen Harper and the Jewish question published in December examined the irony of Jewish neoconservatives cozying up to evangelical anti-Semites, the Tory 10%ers accusing
Continue readingCanadian Firebrand: Gerry Caplan satirises the Rights & Democracy affair
Gerry Caplan’s column in the Globe and Mail has taken on the Harper government’s patronizing attempt to pander to the Jewish community for several months now. Stephen Harper and the Jewish question published in December examined the irony of Jewish neoconservatives cozying up to evangelical anti-Semites, the Tory 10%ers accusing
Continue readingCanadian Firebrand: Adam’s fall
So this is what I can piece together. NOW magazine writes a glowing article on Giambrone and erroneously claims he’s gay. Giambrone “laughs over” the story, light-heartedly corrects the record but then goes a step further and makes public the fact that he’s in a relationship with a woman named
Continue readingAndy Lehrer's Firebrand blog: Adam’s fall
So this is what I can piece together. NOW magazine writes a glowing article on Giambrone and erroneously claims he’s gay. Giambrone “laughs over” the story, light-heartedly corrects the record but then goes a step further and makes public the fact that he’s in a relationship with a woman named
Continue readingAndy Lehrer's Firebrand blog: Hypocrisy from the Canadian Jewish Congress’ Marilyn Shapiro
The letters page of today’s National Post includes a submission by one Marilyn Shapiro of Thornhill. She responds to a previous letter by Professor Yakov Rabkin which defends Independent Jewish Voices against attack by the Canadian Jewish Congress. After falsely describing IJV as made up of “anti-Israel Jews and non-Jews”
Continue readingCanadian Firebrand: Hypocrisy from the Canadian Jewish Congress’ Marilyn Shapiro
The letters page of today’s National Post includes a submission by one Marilyn Shapiro of Thornhill. She responds to a previous letter by Professor Yakov Rabkin which defends Independent Jewish Voices against attack by the Canadian Jewish Congress. After falsely describing IJV as made up of “anti-Israel Jews and non-Jews”
Continue readingAndy Lehrer's Firebrand blog: The Canadian Jewish Congress and the National Post’s double standard on Independent Jewish Voices
Last week, the National Post published a screed yet again attacking Independent Jewish Voices and its former chair, Diana Ralph. Several years ago, prior to joining Independent Jewish Voices, Ralph wrote a chapter for a book called Hidden History of 9-11 in which her thesis was that the Bush Administration
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