Month: January 2021

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‘Cancel culture’ and the pro-Israel lobby: more than two dozen recent examples of the pro-Israel lobby’s cancel culture playbook in action, by Larry Haiven

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Full article below, original post here: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/cancel-culture-and-the-pro-israel-lobby When Sportsnet fired Canadian media personality Don Cherry in November 2019 for his bigoted remarks on Coach’s Corner, we heard the usual right-wing complaint chorus about the suppression of free speech by the liberal […]

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Criticizing Israel is not anti-semitic — it’s academic freedom, by Jasmine Zine, Greg Bird and Sara Matthews

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Full article below, original post here: https://theconversation.com/criticizing-israel-is-not-antisemitic-its-academic-freedom-148864 This summer controversy arose around the hiring of Valentina Azarova as the director of the University of Toronto faculty of law’s international human rights program. Some faculty accused the dean of rescinding a job offer […]