Commentary Canada’s Liberal government has been focused for some time now on finding ways to regulate the internet. The Department of Canadian Heritage, in particular, has targeted online content and what it believes should be classified as hate speech. Based on the recent controversy surrounding the hiring of an anti-racist consultant who turned out to…
Michael Taube: Canadian Heritage Should Get Its Own House in Order Before Controlling Canadians’ Free Speech
Former Liberal Minister Cotler Asks How Ottawa Could Fail to Vet Consultant With History of ‘Hateful’ Twitter Posts
Former justice minister and attorney general Irwin Cotler is asking how a government-funded organization aimed at fighting racism could have hired a senior consultant with a history of making derogatory comments against the Jewish community. “I’m pleased that the government has decided to terminate the grant to CMAC and its senior consultant Laith Marouf. His…
Diversity Minister Was Warned of Antisemitic Tweets From Government-Funded Consultant: Liberal MP
Federal Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen was warned of a government-funded anti-racism consultant’s antisemitic social media posts before they made the news, Liberal MP Anthony Housefather says. Housefather told the National Post that he had urged the minister to take action in regard to antisemitic tweets made by Laith Marouf, who is listed as a senior consultant…
Barbara Kay: An Investigation Is in Order: ‘Anti-Racism’ Consultant Hired by Federally Funded Group Routinely Expresses Antisemitic Views
Commentary Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s Heritage Department is in a mess of its own creation. Last year, under the rubric of its “Anti-Racism Action Program,” Heritage granted over $133,000 to the non-profit Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) to build an “anti-racism strategy” for Canadian media. One of CMAC’s “senior consultants” is Beirut-based Laith Marouf, a longtime…
Barbara Kay: Progressive Politicians Must Grasp the Nettle on Their Moral Failure After Canadian Heritage’s Laith Marouf Debacle
Commentary Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s Heritage Department is in a mess of its own creation. Last year, under the rubric of its “Anti-Racism Action Program,” Heritage granted over $133,000 to the non-profit Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) to build an “anti-racism strategy” for Canadian media. One of CMAC’s “senior consultants” is Beirut-based Laith Marouf, a longtime…
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Communism Is Threatened by Individuality
July 22, 2022
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I speak with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who was elected as vice chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. We discuss his experience seeing the fall of the Soviet Union, what the concerns are in China when it comes to human rights, and his last trip to Hong Kong. We also look into…
Elite Los Angeles School Sued for ‘Racially Divisive,’ Anti-Semitic Curriculum
An elite private high school in Los Angeles is facing legal challenges by a parent who claims his daughter was kicked out after he complained the school’s new curriculum is “racially divisive” and antisemitic. Last week, Jerome Eisenberg filed a lawsuit against Brentwood School and its head, Michael Riera, for breach of contract, violation of…
Elite Los Angeles School Sued for ‘Racially Divisive,’ Antisemitic Curriculum
An elite private high school in Los Angeles is facing legal challenges by a parent who claims his daughter was kicked out after he complained the school’s new curriculum is “racially divisive” and antisemitic. Last week, Jerome Eisenberg filed a lawsuit against Brentwood School and its head, Michael Riera, for breach of contract, violation of…
UK Government Halts Engagement With Student Union Over Antisemitism Allegations
The UK government is to suspend all engagement with the National Union of Students (NUS) amid long-standing concerns about antisemitism in the body. Universities minister Michelle Donelan has ordered the NUS to be removed from all the Department for Education (DfE) departmental groups and replaced with alternative student representation. She has requested the DfE’s arm’s-length…
Civil Liberties Group Raises Concerns Over Proposed Criminal Law Under ‘Antisemitism’ Title
The Ontario Civil Liberties Association has written to senators and MPs to express opposition to legislation proposed in the 2022 federal budget to criminalize “Holocaust denial” and promotion of antisemitism, saying it will “damage Canadian democracy” and could lead to criminalization of speech about other significant events. OCLA executive director Joseph Hickey publicized the April…
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