The Canadian group Independent Jewish Voices today is releasing a report titled “Unveiling the Chilly Climate – The Suppression of Speech on Palestine In Canada.” We spoke to researchers Sheryl Nestel and Rowan Gaudet about what they found.
When Idris Ebakri asked at a public event on Israel — “Do we want an ethnic enclave? What’s being called for is basically an ethnic enclave in the middle in the Arab Middle East for Jews only” — the University of Winnipeg sadly sided with the IHRA definition of antisemitism in finding that it was antisemitic speech. It was actually civil, thoughtful speech that exposes the anti-free-speech intent of the IHRA.
There is a pressing need for a serious discussion of how and why Palestinian concerns are often dismissed and marginalized in progressive spaces.
Larry Haiven shares more than two dozen recent examples of the pro-Israel lobby’s cancel culture playbook in action in Canada.