How Islamic history was built on top of Jewish and Christian history – a lesson for the UN
Facebook comment on the above: Raja Garlapati Sounds similar to Ayodhya Temple and million others in India. Ayodhya temple built even before Islam was born. Islamists destroyed the temple and built the mosque. Hindus fought relentlessly for more than 200 years in peaceful ways. In 1992 mosque was brought down, not a peaceful way. Hindus are still fighting to build the temple waiting for the […]
Read More →Commemorating the 100 year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration and changing the narrative
by Doris Strub Epstein Commemorating the 100 year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration and changing the narrative “Jews are in the Land of Israel as of right not on sufferance.” “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people….” This is the opening sentence of the […]
Read More →Event: Jordan as Palestine: The Original Two-State Solution?
Canadian Institute for Jewish Research Jordan as Palestine: The Original Two-State Solution? Presented by Geoffrey Clarfield, Executive Director Mozuud Freedom Foundation For more than 20 years, Geoffrey Clarfield worked as a development anthropologist and project manager in Africa, the Near East and Asia for a number of donors and organizations, including the UN and the […]
Read More →“The real enemy of Muslims are other Muslims”; Muslim panel leads fight against M 103
by Doris Strub Epstein “The real threat to Canada is not Islamophobia, it is radical Islam and Islamofascism,” said Muslim activist and panel member Asif Javaid, at a groundbreaking event that brought Muslims together who oppose a Liberal MP’s motion to condemn Islamophobia. They packed the hall in a Mississauga venue. The motion passed in […]
Read More →Conference focus; how to fight campus Antisemitism
How to fight campus Antisemitism by Doris Strub Epstein “Fight back. If someone spits on you don’t call it rain” In the wake of the latest assault on Jews and non Jews that support Israel, the “punch a Zionist” tweet from McGill student council representative Igor Sadikov, who remains rebuked but unpunished, the CIJR (Canadian […]
Read More →Event: An Open Discussion on Human Rights in Iran
Speaker, Garnett Genuis, MP and Deputy Director for Human Rights and Religious Freedom Thursday, March 23, 12-1pm, Queens Park Main Legislative Building, Committee Room 228, 111 Wellesley St. Moderated by Sayeh Hassan According to organizer Sayeh Hassan, lawyer and human rights activist, “the goal of this event is to provide an opportunity for the audience […]
Read More →Breaking the slander against the IDF; My Truth
by Doris Strub Epstein For too long, the Israeli Armed Forces, the IDF, has been the target of slander and vilification. They have been unjustly condemned by NGO’s, campus anti- Israel organizations, local leaders and academic figures outside of Israel. The tipping point came for reservist Avihai Shorshan last year with the May 2015 report […]
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