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Dave Gordon

Dave Gordon is a writer based in Canada.

“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.
Rob Roberts is scheduled to win an award for his paper’s “integrity in journalism and media,” and for its accurate reporting on Jews and antisemitism.
“They’re trying to tell the Jews, ‘Here’s quite a bit of cash. We hope you enjoy it. Now stop complaining about us,’” Michael Teper, of the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation, told JNS.
“We’ve always decided that we’re not going to be insular. We’re not going to be turtles in a shell,” Aviva Klompas told JNS.
“I really believe that in North America, our allies are in the majority,” the former “New York Times” editor said at a Toronto event. “They’re just the self-silencing majority.”
Fred Hahn, a head of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, has apologized for applauding the “resistance” on Oct. 7 and sharing an antisemitic video about the Olympics.
“We don’t understand why JNF was treated differently than so many other organizations,” Lance Davis, the nonprofit’s CEO, told JNS.
“If we are not able to work together, to compromise, we’re going to a bad place,” Gidi Dar told JNS.
Since parting ways with the Israeli government’s public affairs office, he founded a new group that pushes back against antisemitic gaslighting.