Friday, February 26, 2010
Via Rick in the comments, this ought to be very disturbing: York University discriminates against Christian and Jewish coalition ahead of Israel Apartheid Week
TORONTO - At the last minute, York University has cancelled events organized by a coalition of Canadian pro-Israel students and organizations due to "security" concerns. The events organized by the Imagine With Us coalition were scheduled for this week in anticipation of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), which begins on March 1.
The Imagine With Us coalition - a "multi-faith, multi-political movement that is concerned with maintaining Canadian values and keeping our campuses safe from hatred, discrimination and radical incitement, particularly from those subscribing to radical Islam," explained Michael Mostyn, national director of public affairs for B'nai Brith Canada - is led by My Canada, a non-partisan organization of young adult Christians who are passionate about a variety of social justice issues, and B'nai Brith Canada.
On Monday and Thursday of this week, events were scheduled at York which included the participation of Middle East expert and political commentator Daniel Pipes, Israeli scholar of Arabic literature and political discourse Dr. Mordechai Kedar, former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat, human right activist Rev. Majed El Shafie, social justice activist and founder of My Canada Faytene Kryskow, and B'nai Brith Canada CEO Frank Dimant. The events were scheduled to be streamed live to campuses across Canada and to be viewable online internationally.
On Monday morning, York University informed Imagine With Us campus partners Christians United for Israel (CUFI) that the university was cancelling the event due to the fact that Imagine With Us did not meet their requirements. York had required that the organizers include a formidable police and campus security presence paid for by the organizers, a list of all attendees in advance, a minute-by-minute synopsis of all speakers' talking points and a ban on public advertising of the event at York and on satellite campuses.
York University has said that the requirements were demanded of the event organizers due to the participation of individuals who they claim invite the animus of anti-Israel campus agitators...[More.]
Well yeah, that's kind of the idea, isn't it? What good is having a free society in theory if the thugs can shut it down in practice?
Very good related op-ed: The dark side of Israeli Apartheid Week
Beginning Monday, university campuses play host to an annual event known as Israeli Apartheid Week, where Israel is assigned the role of Jew among the nations -- singled-out, cursed and harassed.
Some Jewish students at Canadian universities will discreetly choose to stay home, to avoid having to answer for the Jewish state. The whiff of something medieval hangs over this March ritual.
This isn't about Jews, say the organizers. It's about Zionists. Problem is, the activist groups behind Israeli Apartheid Week are doing everything to erase the distinction...[Read the rest.]
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ShalomLife has further detail on the cancellation of pro-Israel events at Canada's York University, and the apparent double standard with regard to the far lower hurdle anti-Israel activists are being required to jump over to get their events on campus... Read More
The lesson here is that violence works. If you want to silence other people then you should bring a credible threat of violence to the table.
Then the government and other venues, entities, businesses, universities, and so on and so forth will silence them for you.
Periodicals wont publish things that are likely to motivate the violent to burn their businesses down to the ground.
So what the response to Muslim violence is teaching other groups is that its time to get into the violence business. Violence works.
Aint multiculturalism wonderful?
Of course they backed down.
1) the Lefties who run most of academia hate Jews
2) They are afraid to say anything against the Islamo fascists who will kill people if the Jews are allowed to have freedom of speech.
Elite Bigots who fear other thuggish bigots are running things. Despite what normal people might want.
I'm sort of wondering - does Israel Apartheid Week have a bright side?