Israel in Canadian Campus Media

This blog exists for the purpose of keeping people informed as to how Israel is being discussed in Canadian campus media. It is maintained by a York University student.

Thursday, August 26, 2004

THE EYEOPENER ONLINE

THE EYEOPENER ONLINE deals with the issue of anti-Muslim graffitti very well.

Are other campus papers back online? Do people know what date their local papers start publishing or day of the week they usually publish? Feel free to drop a comment if you do.

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Excalibur frosh issue

The only article of concern in Excal's frosh issue is an opinion piece by opinions editor Dan Freeman-Maloy in which he criticizes a whole number of things, but primarily targets an IDF Appreciation event carried out by the campus Young Zionist Partnership. One clip:

Last year, current YFS president Paul Cooper helped organize the most militarist event I have ever seen on a campus. The event was a celebration of a military that is internationally condemned for its repressive tactics, including extrajudicial assassination of dissidents, political imprisonment of children, and torture. (See Adam Hanieh’s book Stolen Youth, or visit www.zmag.org, for details on these policies.)

Cooper booked the space for an “Appreciation Day” for the Israeli military, and stood next to the mayor of an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank to coordinate the event. The leader of “Progress not Politics” thus continued acting in the spirit in which he had helped to bring Stockwell Day, the former leader of the Canadian Alliance, to speak on campus the year before. And his conservative and militarist convictions remain clear.


Freeman-Maloy's (and Excalibur's) email address is letters@excal.on.ca.

***In other news, I've added an "email this post" feature, courtesy of Blogger, so all posts can easily be emailed to friends, Romans and countrymen.

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Not quite campus, but...

Ryerson's had its second attack, as reported by The Globe and Mail. But things are a bit fishy:

''The Islamic infidels have no belonging in Toronto and in the world at all ... we ask that whenever you spot a Muslim ... that you beat them and cause harm to them. Kill these Islamic infidels,'' reads one of the notices in broken English and signed by a group calling itself the Full Blooded Israeli Brigades.

Ok, first problem: No Jew has ever used the word "infidel" of their own volition. It's almost exclusively an Islamist word.

Second problem: It is doubtful anyone would create "Full Blooded Israeli Brigades". Are there any other Israeli brigades? Sounds like the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. And what's with the full-blooded Israeli thing? Are there full-blooded Israelis? We take all the ex-pats from anywhere else in the world.

Third problem: Hate propaganda in the summer? The propagandist seems exceptionally inept - who's really on campus in the summer?

The solution: An outside troublemaker.

"They [the Jewish and Muslim student groups on campus] firmly agreed it's an outsider who is trying to stir the pot. . . . The groups are not willing to give into this and allow someone to create tension between them."

Let me make myself clear. Hate crimes are never ok. We should be outraged, and condemn even the slighest sign of marginalization of any faith or ethnic group. Ethnic groups should work together for understanding and coexistence, even if they disagree.