A Canadian citizen falsely accused of bombing a Paris synagogue in 1980, Hassan Diab was wrongly extradited in 2014 and held, without charge, in a maximum-security French prison for 38 months. Still image from YouTube/CBC. The entire spectrum of our national press has covered the unfolding story of Hassan Diab
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Canadian Dimension: Gone viral: Moral panic over Palestinian content in Ontario schools
Protesters carry a Palestinian flag in Montréal, July 30, 2014. Photo from Flickr. Digital technology has been a fixture in the Ontario classroom setting for some years now, but with COVID it has become a particularly dominant instrument of secondary school pedagogy. Online teaching and e-learning have increased exponentially with
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Neither Cure nor Prevention, but Sheer Punishment
A protester against Eurovision 2019 being held in Israel. Photo by Corinna Kern/Reuters. Anti-Semitism is a grave matter; its mere utterance conjures unspeakable horrors – atrocities typically tied to the Holocaust, but also to the longstanding racist persecution of Jews in Europe. Widely known in Western culture, invoked with immeasurable
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Hassan Diab: Nothing Less Than a Public Inquiry Will Do
Photo by RFI He has been compared to Alfred Dreyfus, the iconic 19th-century French victim of false accusation and racism. The entire spectrum of the Canadian press has covered his unfolding story since its inception in 2007. His return to Canada from France in January 2018 was breaking news. An
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Dear Justin Trudeau: Don’t Buy Into Israeli Exceptionalism
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To the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau:
“How is this night different from all other nights?” Such is the question we Jews ritually ask the youngest child at the Passover tab…
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