So, there is a protest being
organized against Jason Kenney on the afternoon of the Haifa University tribute dinner.
They have set up a Facebook page and it’s the usual crowd of Zion-loathers, commie freaks
and Gays for Jihad Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.
I don't get what the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre has to do with this at all. That's weird stuff!
Here are the beautiful organizations that are going to be protesting:
Afghans
for Peace,
Caregiver's
Action Centre,
Centre
for Social Justice,
Coalition
Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA),
Common
Cause Toronto,
Educators
for Peace and Justice,
Faculty
for Palestine (F4P),
Health
for All,
Independent
Jewish Voices - Canada,
Independent
Jewish Voices – Toronto Chapter,
Indigenous
Sovereignty and Solidarity Network,
International
Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) Canada,
International
Socialists,
Justice
for Mahjoub Network,
Justice
for Migrant Workers,
Maggie's:
The Toronto Sex Workers Action Project,
Mining
Injustice Solidarity Network,
Munk
OUT of UofT,
New
Socialist Group (NSG),
No
One Is Illegal – Toronto,
Not
In Our Name (NION): Jews Opposing Zionism,
Ontario
Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP),
OPIRG
- York,
Protest
Barrick,
The
Public Health Social Justice Collective,
The
Women's Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu,
Queers
Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA),
Queers
for Social Justice (QFSJ),
Social
Justice Committee of the United Jewish People’s Order (SJC-UJPO),
Socialist
Project,
Toronto
Haiti Action Committee,
Toronto
Immigration Legal Committee,
Toronto
Rape Crisis Centre,
Women
in Solidarity with Palestine
Haifa is home to the most ethnically and religiously diverse population in Israel. Israeli Arabs have full rights under Israeli law. That doesn't mean they have a perfect situation, but it's a heck of a lot better for them in Israel than in any other country in the region. And certainly women and minorities (Druze, Bedouin, Circassian, Christian) have much better lives in Israel-and in Haifa in particular-than they would anywhere else in the Middle East.
The fact that a new Holocaust studies program is going to be set up in Haifa is a testament to the intellectual rigor of the university, and is a tribute to the actual diversity of both the university itself and the city of Haifa as well. It shows tolerance and demonstrates that the students of Haifa University are interested in exploring the history of the Jewish people-no matter what their ethnic, religious or national background.
This is unlike-for example-the "PhD" that Mahmoud Abbas has in Holocaust denial.
And, I don't know of any Jewish studies programs in Muslim countries that welcome students with diverse backgrounds. Hey, come to think of it, I don't know many that even want Jews there.
(Hint: that is actual apartheid-like in Saudi Arabia.)
I know this is all irrelevant to the protestors, but it has to be said.
Strangely-I don't see any Roma representation on this list.
I wonder if they got a Speed Dating style PR lesson recently?
