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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by streetfestival@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Canadian organizations representing Jewish, Muslim and Palestinian communities, along with anti-racism activists, have joined forces to condemn the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) for allegedly instructing its employees to surveil and report Ontario school students for criticizing Israel.

A CBC News report published last month quoted two FSWC employees who said that the centre’s educators were instructed to report students who made comments critical of Israel, or references to the genocide and occupation of Palestinians, to the organization.

The whistleblowers, who were kept anonymous, told CBC: “The idea is to contact the school, inform the school they have an antisemitism problem and pressure the school to shut down the Palestinian support [by] accusing them of antisemitism, encouraging more pro-Zionist workshops or lessons.”

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[-] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Fuck this shit. Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism.

[-] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Israel is just Barbara Streisanding themselves at this point with all their propaganda efforts.

[-] Sumpfkraut@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

In the US they seem to get away with that tactic.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Well it’s an LA based group that’s supposed to monitor Ontario students

Maybe they got the wrong Ontario

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