In Toronto, the City Council has navigated an annual political clash by agreeing to help fund this year’s gay pride parade, but condemning the use of the term “Israeli apartheid” by the group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.
The B’nai Brith Canada wants to go further. In applauding the City Council decision, the B’nai Brith seeks to ban the use of the words.
B’nai Brith is anticipating Toronto City Council’s upcoming anti-discrimination policy debate where it hopes the policy will be revised to prevent the use of the term “Israeli Apartheid” at taxpayer-funded events.
Upon passage of the motion at today’s Toronto City Council session, Frank Dimant, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada issued the following statement:
“The passage of this motion condemning the use of the term “Israeli Apartheid” at Pride has signaled to Toronto, and indeed the entire country, that hate and intolerance are not welcome at Canada’s largest Pride festival.”
Silly.
There probably aren’t any taxpayer funded events where someone uses Israel apartheid.
It’s like a coming of age for israeli apartheid.- it is only when you are name checked that you know you have made it.
“Israeli apartheid” – “About 840,000 results on google”
Google is so helpful
they have videos for “Israeli apartheid” and “news for Israeli apartheid”
“Israeli decency” – “About 0 results on google”
“The passage of this motion condemning the use of the term “Israeli Apartheid” at Pride has signaled to Toronto, and indeed the entire country, that hate and intolerance are not welcome at Canada’s largest Pride festival.”
To hell with free speech, so long as fifth columnists and israel-Firsters are satisfied…
I love it.
Whenever zionist goons try do stuff like this it always blows up in their face and Israel gets much more bad press than they would have otherwise.
Israeli Apartheid!
Israeli Apartheid!
Israeli Apartheid!
Arrest me!
Karl Rove used to say “when you are explaining, you have lost”
All the zionist censoring does is raise more resentment in the public.
Most people ( in democratic countries or one that pretend to be) would laugh in their face if told they couldn’t say whatever they thought no matter what it was.
It’s interesting that despite the fact that Israel is so totally dependent on the US and the holocaust meme, the zios haven’t tried (yet) to get holocaust denial made a punishable crime in the US as it is in some countries.
Actually I would like to see them try it…..it would be the knock down drag out freedom of speech fight of the century.
American: “I would like to see them try it…..it would be the knock down drag out freedom of speech fight of the century.”
Really? You may want to read this.
link to foreignpolicyjournal.com
@ Sumud
That hysteria stuff’s getting a little old, don’t you think?
Though I suppose it’s more dramatic if you have a handful of stones to throw and a burning tire around your neck. Otherwise the sheer idiotic hypocrisy of Queers beating Israel is head shaking.
Wow “Brian”. You’re only the 263rd bot we’ve had on this site. We know what you are going to say. Taxi will be along to finish you off presently.
And your homophobia is showing.
Listen Brian, if you want to talk about hysteria go have a chat with B’nai Brith Canada.
They seem to have elected themselves ‘Thought Police’.
In support of The Only Democracy In The Middle East™ they expect to be able to outlaw words and phrases.
It’s arrogant, fascist – and utterly ridiculous.
Israeli Apartheid does NOT get a pass with queers because they don’t discriminate against their local LGBT population.
At this point, it is quite clear why LGBT rights are so passionately highlighted by Zionist hardliners like this “Brian” fellow. To be frank, gay rights, valid as they may be, are being used as a battering ram against Christian and Muslim religion and culture.
The operative phrase is “live and let live”, Ranjit.
I refuse to live as a second class citizen. I want and deserve full equality and that includes the choice of marrying the partner of my choice, regardless of gender.
As long as it christians want to perpetuate that inequality, they will have a fight on their hands.
“I do find the expression particularly odious. It certainly negatively impacts and offends a large number of people in my community,’ [City Councillor Josh Colle] said.
link to theglobeandmail.com
Maybe an apartheid like negative impact or even worse? Thank God he knows who the real victims are and how much they suffer. The truth can be so cruel to infants growing up in a Zionist education system.
This is good, trying to ban the truth, according to the International Legal study funded and co-ordinated by the Government of South Africa, found that the practices of Israel in the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza strip constitute both Colonialism and Apartheid here: link to electronicintifada.net , indeed many leading South Africans when comparing Israels practises with the Apartheid regime in SA say Israels is worse, and they should know. The Russell Tribunal last year here: link to middleeastmonitor.org.uk also found Apartheid was practised. Toronto officials find the term Apartheid odious, it is, and its TRUE.
canada, that supposed repository of the good bits of liberalism, is really morphing into a shitty little autocratic backwater. the montreal police just arrested a student activist, the daughter of a member of the national assembly, who also happens to be of arab descent, this just days before the montreal grand prix, as business interests are getting a bit anxious over the impact of student protests on the upcoming tourist season. (the b. family makes it to montreal every summer)
link to lapresse.ca
Meanwhile they will be promoting the use of the word “Arabist” to be used against their enemies.
How fitting that Israel associates itself with the censorship and gagging activities of an apartheid regime. To be fair, if they are going to ban that phrase, they should also ban any mention of ‘democracy’ in the same sentence as Israel. And ‘fair’, ‘equal rights’, ‘peace’ etc etc
Because we all know how much people love those who tell them what they can and cannot say. No resentment whatsoever. Sure.
This is good, trying to ban the truth, according to the International Legal study funded and co-ordinated by the Government of South Africa, found that the practices of Israel in the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza strip constitute both Colonialism and Apartheid here: link to electronicintifada.net
, indeed many leading South Africans when comparing Israels practises with the Apartheid regime in SA say Israels is worse, and they should know. The Russell Tribunal last year here: link to middleeastmonitor.org.uk
also found Apartheid was practised. Toronto officials find the term Apartheid odious, it is, and its TRUE.
Those toronto queers are FABULOUS. I really admire their guts.
It’s a pity so many gay people in Israel are straight when it comes to Zionism and its human rights abuses.
‘Israeli Apartheid’ banned. Ok why not “Israeli Fascism” or “Israeli Genocide”. Not exagerations. Both ‘fascism’ and ‘genocide’ fit Zionism’s ways and means.
From Wikipedia:
GENOCIDE: While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). Article 2 of this convention defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”[3].
FASCISM: Fascism seeks to purify the nation of foreign influences that are deemed to be causing degeneration of the nation or of not fitting into the national culture