The Asper Foundation donated over $4 million to the Jewish National Fund of Canada (JNF) between 2005 and 2024, according to annual reports filed by the foundation. The Gail Asper Family Foundation has also given the JNF about $26,000.
The CRA notified JNF of its intent to revoke the organizationās charitable registration in 2019, citing multiple violations involving the use of charitable funds to support the armed forces of another country, the IDF, and to establish and maintain infrastructure in Israeli settlements within occupied Palestinian territory in contravention of Canadian policy and international law.
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This is completely out of line.
Minister Miller says, "It isn't up to me to speak to, or insert myself in, the curation of any particular exhibit.ā And then he does exactly that.
His comments are a direct attack on the independence of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights ā exactly what the Museums Act is meant to prevent.
The story of the Nakba needs to be told. Itās a hard history to confront: Israelās independence was achieved with massacres, ethnic cleansing, and the forcible displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians.
And itās a story thatās not over: all of those assaults on human dignity and fundamental human rights continue to this day.
This is the very purpose of museums like the CMHR: to shine a light into the corners of history and connect historical events to the present. Public education informed by the principles of justice and human rights.
The āerror that needs to be rectifiedā is not the exhibit, itās the Heritage Ministerās unacceptable political interference. He should retract his comments, apologize, and leave curating to the curators.
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Hi Rich,
The problem with your definitions of Zionism is that Zionism was not an abstract idea ("the belief in the existence of a Jewish home land, Israel") but a āin real lifeā movement.
It was a movement with leaders, institutions, policies and militias that set out to build what it called a Jewish state with a Jewish supermajority working at Jewish-only cooperatives living in Jewish-only colonies owned by Jewish-only land authorities operating Jewish-only schools maintained by Jewish-only militias in a country that was overwhelmingly Palestinian Arab. What could possibly go wrong?
The first thing that could and did go wrong was that not enough Jews moved to Palestine to outnumber the Palestinian Arabs. It was known as the āArab problem,ā i.e., the problem that there were too many Arabs in Palestine.
By the mid-late 1930s, the Zionist movement settled on ātransfer,ā i.e., expulsion, as the optimal solution to this problem. And then, in 1948, thatās exactly what Israel did, expel about 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. Then they expelled another 30,000 over the next decade. And then another 300,000 in 1967, along with 130,000 Syrians, and then they pushed out a few hundred thousand more from 1968 to 1993, and a few hundred thousand more since.
Today, Israelās forcible displacement policies are on steroids. Israel is crowding Palestinians into smaller and smaller areas of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel, and pushing them out of Palestine altogether at an accelerating pace. Now, itās expanding into Lebanon and Syria and doing the same there to Lebanese and Syrians.
Zionists like yourself insist on a definition of Zionism detached from the history of the Zionist movement. As we said, the Zionist movement at its core was about the immigration of Jews into Palestine & the displacement of Palestinians out of it, the construction of Jewish settlements in it and the destruction of Palestinian ones, and the armament of Jewish militias and disarmament of Palestinian ones. That was how an Arab country was transformed into a Jewish one, demographically, physically and kinetically.
You can call immigration āindigenousness,ā you can call colonization āthe right to self-determinationā and you can call a policy of forever, forcible displacement āliberation.ā
But no one is buying the bullshit anymore. Thatās why Israelās Foreign Ministry budget will receive a $150 million bonus this year, more than a 20X increase in bonus blood money. Thatās also why the Israel lobby in the US is responsible for the most expensive primaries in US American history. And thatās why Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post, since people arenāt buying the bullshit.
And the reason is pretty simple. Israelās genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza has ripped the mask off the underlying logic of Zionism. As Patrick Wolfe famously put it in his classic essay on the topic, settler-colonial movements, āwithout exception,ā lead to a logic of the āelimination of the native.ā And in the case of Palestine, the logic of the elimination of the native needed no theorizing by academics, not even a look at history. Instead, it has been on live-stream every day for the past 969 days, and counting.
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@MarkJCarney Yea letās anti Palestinian racism and Islamophobia and focus on a class thatās been protected for over 75 years. When was the last time someone Jewish was fired for thought crimes?
Congratulations to you. Children are innocent and lovable. Those 168 children that your boss killed in the school in Minab, and you justified, were also children. When you kiss your baby, think of the mothers of those children.
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.