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Dave Gordon

Dave Gordon

Dave Gordon is a writer based in Canada.

“You could spend days reading through the stories of each victim,” Kevin Vuong told JNS about Oct. 7. “It’s heavy and somber and reaffirms the need to support Israel.”
The owner of Olive Branch told JNS that the corporate head of the chain Sobeys apologized after its location in Thornhill threatened suppliers that worked with Olive Branch.
“This is a shockingly high allocation of police resources,” said James Pasternak, a member of the Toronto City Council.
“Our expectation is that when laws are broken and people cross that line that there will be consequences,” Noah Shack, interim president of CIJA, told JNS.
The lawyer, who is based in Los Angeles, told JNS about the Iranian regime, which funds Hamas, jailing her mother and executing her mother’s cousin.
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center told JNS that the court’s decision of probation, community service and anger management is “outrageous.”
Local pro-Israel and Jewish groups didn’t comment on the event, which Rabbi David Wolpe told JNS was “a twisted perversion of the historical record and Israel’s actions.”
Erin Molan, who launched a successful online show after working for “Sky News Australia,” told JNS that her approach is “just telling the truth and seeing it for what it is.”
“You’ve got a very large Jewish community in Canada, and it does seem that the threats and concerns just aren’t really being taken seriously,” Vivian Bercovici, the former Canadian ambassador to Israel, told JNS.
“You got to catch things when it’s young and early and squash it, so he’ll think three times before he writes any stupidity again,” one listee told JNS.
Voters must think seriously if they want their children “in school for an education or for indoctrination,” Tamara Gottlieb, a Jewish education nonprofit leader, told JNS.
“There is a general sense of uncertainty and concern about what’s happening right now, and you wonder what Jewish life will be like in Ontario,” Jason Cherniak, a center-left Liberal running for office, told JNS.