- Today’s recommended reading comes via Rosie DiManno at the Toronto Star for her scathing critique of notorious antisemite Richard Falk, whom DiManno says is an “Evangelist for anti-Semitism (who) strikes again”.
- Choice Quote: “By any fair measure, Falk is an evangelist for anti-Semitism, couched — and not so couched — as anti-Zionism (the new age anti-Semitism) and anti-Israel dogma, which can clearly be traced in the half-dozen obsessive reports he filed for the UN during his rapporteur years. Did we mention he’s accused Israel — the only functioning democracy in the Middle East — of “ethnic cleansing”? Of course, the UN itself has been neurotically fixated on Israel.Planet Earth: 56 Muslim nations, 103 Christian nations, one Jewish state.”
- CTV, not surprisingly, picked up on AP coverage of U.S. actor Richard Gere’s Mideast trip where he compared the city of Hebron to the “old South”. Here’s trip is organized by Breaking the Silence. Untold by AP and as illuminated by NGO Monitor, Breaking the Silence is a controversial anti-Israel organization.
- London’s Jewish community can breathe a little easier, but with some sadness, after the arrest of a Jewish teenager from Israel suspected of making bomb threats in this city and others across North America. Check out the London Free Press for the full article, and CTV News London.
- No real news here. Metro News says Chancellor Angela Merkel is reiterating Germany’s long-held support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and its rejection of Israeli settlements.
- Instead of building city infrastructure, institutions, helping the poor, or allocating funds for education, electricity, etc. Hamas’ propaganda TV channel built a Jerusalem set in Gaza for a “drama production” its staging. News courtesy of the Times Colonist.
