{"id":61013,"date":"2018-05-05T17:05:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=61013"},"modified":"2018-04-29T08:05:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T06:05:53","slug":"01-00-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=61013","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Charity Promotes Antisemitic Book Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnaibrith.ca\/canadian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/b-nai.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"25%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bnaibrith.ca\/canadian_charity_promotes_antisemitic_book_tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Charity Promotes Antisemitic Book Tour<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Ran Ukashi <\/strong>and<strong> Aidan Fishman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/bnaibrithcanada\/pages\/2487\/attachments\/original\/1524855622\/AteekN-1.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Naim Ateek, author of &#8220;A Palestinian Theology of Justice&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>TORONTO<\/strong> \u2013 B\u2019nai Brith Canada is demanding action from the Canada Revenue Agency after learning that a registered charity is promoting and selling a book containing antisemitic content and facilitating a cross-country tour by its author.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Palestinian cleric Naim Ateek is in the midst of a cross-Canada tour to advertise his new book, A Palestinian Theology of Justice. The tour is being promoted by registered charity Necef Sabeel Canada, operating as \u201cFriends of Sabeel Canada.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">B\u2019nai Brith has obtained a copy of the book, which contains blatant antisemitic falsehoods. For example, Ateek asserts that \u201caccording to Halakha [Jewish law] the killing by a Jew of a non-Jew under any circumstances is not regarded as murder.\u201d He goes on to say that, \u201cFor most religious Jews, what is prescribed by the Halakha and the Talmud is more strongly binding than some texts in the Hebrew Bible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A B\u2019nai Brith representative attended a presentation by Ateek at the Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg on Wednesday, where Ateek repeated this antisemitic canard before a large audience and encouraged attendees to boycott the State of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cTaxpayer dollars should not and cannot be used to subsidize antisemitism,\u201d said Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B\u2019nai Brith Canada. \u201cPromoting antisemitic material is an abuse of the moral authority that comes with having a charitable license.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/bnaibrithcanada\/mailings\/1473\/attachments\/original\/IMG_9836.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>An example of a slide used by Naim Ateek at his April 25th lecture at the Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cIn our recently published 2017 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, we highlighted a disturbing trend of public money and public spaces being used to facilitate antisemitism. We will not rest until this trend is reversed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Aside from Winnipeg, Ateek\u2019s book tour with Sabeel has also taken him to B.C. and he will visit St. John\u2019s, Halifax, Hamilton, Waterloo and Toronto in the coming week. St. Michael\u2019s College in Toronto has already cancelled his lecture there. B\u2019nai Brith has contacted the remaining venues.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Charity Promotes Antisemitic Book Tour Ran Ukashi and Aidan Fishman Naim Ateek, author of &#8220;A Palestinian Theology of Justice&#8221; TORONTO \u2013 B\u2019nai Brith Canada is demanding action from the Canada Revenue Agency after learning that a registered charity is promoting and selling a book containing antisemitic content and facilitating a cross-country tour by its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61013"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61107,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61013\/revisions\/61107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}