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Dave Gordon

Dave Gordon

Dave Gordon is a writer based in Canada.

“I think that the establishment of the advisory council is a very useful instrument if it produces what it must produce,” Deborah Lyons told JNS.
“We’ve actually wrapped ourselves in a knot in the pursuit of a higher ideal of international legal jurisprudence,” Alan Kessel told JNS.
“We can’t prevent people from committing crimes,” Michelle Cooper told JNS. “For me, it’s about holding people accountable.”
“When people read the statistics, it’s damning, and it should be a wake-up call to university leadership, to the government and frankly to all Canadians,” Jay Solomon, chief advancement officer at Hillel Ontario, told JNS.
“We remain among the most targeted minority groups in Canada,” Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, told JNS.
“You can’t fight back something you don’t really understand,” Amir Epstein, director of Tafsik, one of the organizers, told JNS. “You can’t fight back something you don’t know.”
“The data shows that Jewish, black and 2SLGBTQI+ communities remain most impacted, year after year,” stated Myron Demkiw, chief of the Toronto Police Service.
“This is not a prank. It was an act of intimidation meant to spread fear,” Vince Gasparro, a Liberal parliamentarian, told JNS.
“Each incident documented in the audit meant pain, suffering and anguish for a human being, a fellow Canadian,” the Jewish nonprofit said.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the advocacy agent of the Jewish Federations of Canada-UIA, said that it was “left with a deep sense of sadness.”
“There are certainly organizations with much stronger reputations within the Jewish community for actually standing up and fighting antisemitism,” the Jewish Educators and Families Association of Canada told JNS.
“Witnessing both the highs and lows of what the Jewish people have faced, and still face, alongside other First Nations, Métis and Inuit participants deepened our connection and understanding,” Crystal Lavallee told JNS.