On February 22, York University in Toronto effectively cancelled a pro-Israel event called Imagine With Us, scheduled for February 22 and 25. The invited speakers included: controversial Middle East commentator Daniel Pipes; Israeli scholar Mordechai Kedar; former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat; human rights activist Majed El Shafie...and B'nai Brith Canada CEO Frank Dimant. On the grounds that some of the speakers might incite opponents, the university required the organizers to pay for a formidable police and campus security presence, ban public advertising of the event, and give the university in advance a list of all attendees and a minute-by-minute synopsis of all speakers' talking points. In response, the organizers moved the event off campus. The university did not impose similar conditions on Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), a pro-Palestinian event which began March 1 on the campuses of at least three universities in Toronto, including York. IAW was launched in 2005, and the annual event is now observed in 40 cities of the world. A unanimous vote in the Ontario legislature February 25 condemned IAW as being "close to hate speech," but did not forbid the event from taking place...This reminds me of a recent film that was shown on the campus of a local Christian university that was so slanted and anti-Israel that even the question panel and Q&A period was stacked against Israel. Some of my friends went to represent the other side. You can read about this film, and see some of their comments here (and add a few of your own if you like)...
-Tolerance unimaginable
www.canadianchristianity.com (March edition)
Whose side is God on?
Film premiere and panel discussion explores the Israel-Palestine conflict
http://www.marshillonline.com/news/whose-side-is-god-on/
Related post:
Colleges being flooded with Anti-Semitism [UPDATED]
morebooksandthings.blogspot.com
UPDATE:
Whose Side Is God On?
By Jan Markell
www.olivetreeviews.org
April 12, 2010
0 comments:
Post a Comment