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RCMP investigate altercation between Israeli, Palestinian support
Barry Artiste Op/Ed
Looks like the Israeli/Gaza issue is beginning in our Universities with differences of opinion.
Perhaps if they feel so strongly about the issue, they should immediately pack up, call a Cab and head to the nearest airport where their own brand of protests will do much better in their homeland, while they dodge bullets waving their protest signs?
And the what the hell is a BC HATE CRIME TEAM? I Mean give me a break! Is this the only Tofu Eatin Province that has special Task Forces for every name under the sun?
Someone needs a Good Slap upside the Head here!
I imagine there is a round table of Politicians sitting around making up names for individual Task Forces, what's next ?
I can imagine it goes something like this in Vangroovy, with a bunch of Colon Taster Bureaucrats thinking of names to give each police department and social agency.
Mayor, did you know the Homeless use Stolen Shopping Carts, this is a serious crime, merchants are upset, whaty can we do to appease the masses?
Mayor: I know Let's form a "BC Stolen Shopping Cart Crime Team" !
Councilor, Oh wait I hear some of those homeless may be of Colour.
Mayor: Ok hold that thought Betty!! Better make an even better team, we'll call it "BC Integrated Non White Homeless Stolen Shopping Cart Team"!!!
Councilor 2 : But wait are not some of these Homeless Drug Addicted?
Mayor: Good Point!, Okay, Here is the Last Name Change, the New Task force will be called the "BC Integrated Drug Addicted Non White Homeless Stolen Shopping Cart Team"!!
Everyone in Unison: Wow what an Impressive Name! That'll look good on Two business Cards, in time for the 2010 Olympics!! That'll sure scare criminals and the homeless alike!
Mayor: I am sure glad we are earning our Paycheques! Okay, everyone Lunch Break, Give yourself a round of applause!!! Shirley call the printer, and have 20 certificates of merit printed up for everyone here, so they can have something nice to hang on their office wall!
Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap!!!!
Councilor 3. Excuse me Sir., I have a question!
Mayor: Oh sure and what is your Question?
Councilor 3. What if the Homeless person is a Disabled Gay Vegetarian with a Stolen Shopping Cart!
Mayor: Okay, everyone, get back here, it's back to the drawing board!
Shirley call the printer and tell em to cancel that last Task Force name Business Card order.......We're going to need BIGGER BUSINESS CARDS!!.. Shirley, cancel all my appointments today, Okay People, We may as well order Chinese Tofu , cause we'll be here through the night on this poser!
Shirley: Shall I cancel the Certificates of Merit for everyone?
Mayor: Whoa there Shirley! Let's not go insane here!
In Barry Artistes Opinion and Experience, Nothing ever gets done around here in this friggin stunned province, no matter what name you call your special Fruity Task Force.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/RCMP+investigate+altercation+between+Israeli+Palestinian+supporters/1249289/story.html
VANCOUVER -The RCMP are investigating a series of altercations over the weekend at the University of B.C. between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian supporters. According to a police news release, around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, a student was studying in his residence room when he heard a commotion outside his door. He looked outside to see four students, one of which was holding a video camera. The four men fled and the student noticed that posters on his door supporting Hamas and the Palestinian Liberation Organization had been torn down.
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at 08:41 on February 4th, 2009
Canadian Universities have been 'infiltrated' as Palestinian supporters would say by students trained with great care in the dissemination of Israeli foreign policy.
The major program training Canadian students to 'misinform' as Palestinian supporters would say the student body and build validating support for the Israeli Operation Cast Lead surge in Gaza and against any calls for war crimes investigation is called the Hasbara Fellowship program.
Information on which Canadian universities, and listing in some cases by name, Canadian university elected student officials who have undergone the 'brainwashing' as Palestinian supporters would say in Israel is at:
http(colon-slash-slash)www/dot)israelactivism(dot)com(slash)universities
NOTE: Sorry or the URL. My standard use of URL is not implemented by NowPublic at present, it seems to me. They are rejected as spam. Strange.
Hasbara Fellowships has Israeli military support PR sample audio training files on its site for the introduction to Canadian campus, media and blog-penetration of Zionist settlement and pro-right-wing Israeli Gazan and West Bank 'security', as Zionist supporters would say, agendas. See below for URL of a sample audio training session at Hasbara.
Canadian university campuses affected by the trained Hasbara fellows, actually Zionist information extremists, although that word Zionist bothers me personally, are:
Brock University
Carleton University
Concordia University
Dalhousie University
McGill University
McMaster University
Ontario College of Art and Design
Queens University
Ryerson University
Simon Fraser University
University of Alberta
University of British Columbia
University of Calgary
University of Guelph
University of Ottawa
University of Prince Edward Island
University of Toronto
University of Victoria
University of Waterloo
University of Western Ontario
University of Winnipeg
Wilfred Laurier University
York University
No wonder with this highly organized pro-Israeli blog- and PR-trained lobby in full swing all over Canada's major universities from coast to coast, that in a media-savvy way 'shout down' the Palestinian supporters rhetoric in a clearly 'disproportionate war of hearts and minds' campaign spearheaded by current, Israeli military and government funded 'misinformation war' agencies as Palestinian supporters would say (i.e. the illegal Israeli settler lobby, the Jerusalem Center, and the propaganda war agency with its misleading name Palestinian Media Watch). Fueled with the most modern and affective training support of the Hasbara Fellowship program, Canadian campuses are not recognizing the equilibrium that is required to ensure a fair debate and equilibrium of information dissemination, that is required, say, in national election campaigns. As it stands, Canadian universities have yet to act and assure that Hasbara is not interfering with upheld and cherished 'fair practise' education policy in Canada.
I won't mention the names of the Canadian student Hasbara Fellows for obvious reasons. Perhaps though the exposure of this network of Israeli War on Gaza supporters in Canada, exposed, will help the majority realize that some action ought to be taken to create an equilibrium in academic fourms that does not mirror the disproportionate war and blockade carried out militarily by Israel in Gaza today.
For those interested in what a training session by Hasbara entails, here a link to one of their online training audio sessions:
Human Rights in the West Bank & Gaza Strip, Jessica Montell, Betzelem
http(colon-slash-slash)www(dot)israelactivism(dot)com(slash)audio(slash)Day%209%20-%20B%27tzelem%20-%20Jessica%20Montel(dot)mp3
The Hasbara indoctrination sessions for Canadian students affiliated with the programme as listed on their website include:
Is there any proportionate and well-funded program to balance the debate from the Palestinian perspective on Canadian university campuses? No. Should the funding of such support groups be balanced to avoid havoc and further a fair and proportionate debate? Yes, indeed!
at 09:54 on February 4th, 2009
Is there any proportionate and well-funded program to balance the debate from the Palestinian perspective on Canadian university campuses? No.
However there does seems to be a campaign for a boycott of Israel in academia, not just in Canada.
Also, as yet unreported on NP, in the UK there's been a wave of university occupations protesting the human rights situation. (All very 1968, although not on the same scale.)
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btw we've had the Hate Crime terminology in the UK for years, as a way of linking the connectedness of issues such as misogny, racism/xenophobia, homophobia, etc. Its supposed to help for instance muslim victims of racist attack deal to understand it within the context of their own bigotries, but i suspect you knoe that already
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at 11:55 on February 4th, 2009
I have to say that this made me laugh quite a bit - I bet we will have a stolen shopping cart team soon..
at 06:30 on February 7th, 2009
Thanks to each and everyone of you for your insightful comments, truly appreciated.