• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    According to three Ontario-based lawyers who spoke to CBC News, some employers and institutions have been quick to take action against employees or students, creating an environment in which many are afraid they will lose their jobs or face consequences to their education if they express a political stance in favour of one side — Palestinians — during this war.

    Esmonde noted a Nov. 23 United Nations statement in which a group of UN special rapporteurs expressed alarm at what they say is a global stifling of critique of Israeli government policies or calls for a ceasefire, which they said “have in too many contexts been misleadingly equated with support for terrorism or antisemitism.”

    Last month, according to an official email seen by CBC News, George Brown College in Toronto  put Bashir Munye, a culinary instructor, on paid leave while it investigated complaints related to one of his Instagram posts.

    The last post on his account related to the war, made before he was put on paid leave, uses the phrase “From the river to the sea” and the words “genocide” and “apartheid” to describe Israeli government actions against Palestinians.

    She pointed to a post by B’nai B’rith Canada, a Jewish community and advocacy organization that describes itself as a “staunch defender of the state of Israel” whose mandate includes combating racism and antisemitism, that went up about a week after the protest.

    According to Esmonde, the labour lawyer with Cavalluzzo Law, assuming the employees are not part of a union, they would need to either sue Moxies for wrongful dismissal or make a complaint to a provincial employment standards officer if they wanted to challenge their termination.


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    • Kalkaline @leminal.space
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      11 months ago

      I don’t know how you can support the IDF or Hamas, what they’ve done is atrocious. I can’t see how supporting the Israeli civilians and Palestinian civilians would be controversial.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        Welp, unfortunately in America (and most of Canada) that’s the case. We have a few hate groups like the AJC that happily equate criticism of Netanyahu to antisemitism. These groups are destroying reasonable peoples’ ability to critize actual antisemitism and it’s extremely frustrating.