Dear HonestReporting Canada subscriber,

On December 7, we alerted you to a one-way anti-Israel diatribe that was published in the B.C. Teachers Federation Magazine, a Canadian periodical with a circulation of over 57,000, which inflamed tensions, mislead peers, and brought prospects for Mideast peace to a scorching dead-end.

The magazine had published an op-ed by former Surrey teacher Bob Rosen which was replete with errors, hypocrisy, half-truths, baseless accusations and straw man arguments which we thoroughly debunked.

Our critique, along with close to one hundred letters that were sent to the magazine by HRC’s members, served as a teachable moment for this publication that biased anti-Israel commentaries will not be tolerated anymore.

We are pleased to inform you that a colleague of ours, Mr. Glenn Bullard, a social justice representative for the New Westminster Teachers’ Union, secured considerable space in the magazine’s January/February 2011 edition to rebut Rosen’s egregious polemic. We are also appreciative that the magazine has allowed for equal treatment on this issue and for a marketplace of ideas to prevail.

To read Glenn Bullard’s rebuttal entitled “Getting it right on Israel and Palestine” please click here or see it immediately below.

Furthermore, the B.C. Teachers Federation Magazine also commendably published a letter to the editor signed by over a dozen B.C. educators condemning the publication of Rosen’s biased article.

To read the letter entitled “A multifaceted situation” please click here or see it immediately below.

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