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21 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Toronto District School Board superintendent vetoes student book event with Yazidi activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad because her memoir about being captured and sexually enslaved by Islamic State terrorists “would foster Islamophobia.”
lefigaro.fr/culture/de-peu…
Tanya Lee, the book club organizer who tried to invite Murad, sent superintendent Helen Fisher information about the Islamic State. “It is a terrorist organization. It has nothing to do with ordinary Muslims. The Toronto School Board should be aware of the difference,” wrote Lee.
The next day, Fisher responded by sending Lee a copy of the school board’s policy on “selecting equitable, culturally relevant and responsive reading materials.”

The board also vetoed Toronto criminal lawyer Marie Henein due to a defendant she represented.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
For all those of you who were surprised to learn that even in a common sense country like Canada there are leading educational, media and other influential institutions that have lost their common sense, you're obviously not yet following @jonkay of @Quillette but you must.

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7 Nov
Great journalism by @yardenas @ForeignPolicy: "My visit was cut short by UNRWA administrators, however, when I tried to speak with students about their curriculum inside the school. [But] I then caught up with several as they were beginning to walk home..."foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/05/unr…
"My interpreter and I introduced ourselves and asked students if they could tell us a bit about their lessons at school. The children were eager to speak.

Asked what they are taught about the martyrs of Palestine, a 5th grade student replied that..."
"...her class had just learned about Dalal Mughrabi (the perpetrator of the Coastal Road massacre who I had been told was no longer a part of the UNRWA curriculum).
'They taught us that she is a hero,' she said, showing us the page in her textbook."
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30 Oct
"The great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies, and all the goodness in the whole world is in you."

"You can be as nasty as you like and yet feel your behavior is morally justified.

Prescient John Cleese:
This is from 1987—two decades before Twitter—yet brilliantly explains the psychology of today's extremists who flourish in the age of social media.

Full text: "We've heard a lot about extremism recently. A nastier, harsher atmosphere everywhere..."
"More abuse and bother boy behavior, less friendliness and tolerance and respect for parents.

Alright, but what we never hear about extremism is its advantages. Well the biggest advantage of extremism is that it makes you feel good — because it provides you with enemies."
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26 Oct
BREAKING: Ahead of a donors conference where UNRWA seeks to raise $800 million from Western states, today I called on @UNLazzarini—head of the agency that runs schools for Palestinians—to identify which teachers were suspended for antisemitism & terrorism.unwatch.org/ahead-of-donor…
UNRWA has reportedly suspended at least six of its employees after we exposed over 100 UNRWA educators and other employees who publicly propagate violence and antisemitism on social media, in breach of the agency’s proclaimed policy of “zero tolerance” for incitement.
"UNRWA's Adnan Abu Hasna told Al Jazeera they suspended a small number of employees and their monthly salaries pending an investigation into allegations against them of violating the principles of neutrality, incitement to violence and inciting hatred." aljazeera.net/news/humanrigh…
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21 Oct
Congratulations to 🇶🇦 Qatar on winning election to the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Credentials: Caused 6,750 migrant workers to die for 2022 World Cup; women suffer discrimination; supports terrorists such as Al Qaeda in Syria, Jihadis in Libya and Somalia, the Taliban and Hamas.
"The large number of Member States that voted in favor of the election of Qatar for the fifth time embodies the confidence of the international community in the active and positive role played by Qatar in the field of protection and promotion of human rights and related issues."
"It also reflects the well-established approach and policy of the State of Qatar towards the promotion and protection of human rights at the local, regional and international levels, and the fulfillment of its obligations in this regard." qatar-tribune.com/latestnews-art…
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11 Oct
BRAVO: Record amount of countries at UNHRC vote No to resolution celebrating antisemitic 2001 Durban Conference.
🇬🇧 UK
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇮🇹 Italy
🇨🇿 Czech
🇦🇹 Austria
🇵🇱 Poland
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇺🇦 Ukraine

UK led the vote. @BorisJohnson & @trussliz showed leadership. Image
Text of the resolution is here:
Correction: today's vote was not a record at the UNHRC in opposing a Durban resolution.

In 2006, for example, 13 countries voted No: ap.ohchr.org/documents/E/HR…

In 2015, 12 voted No (including Namibia which later said it made a mistake & meant to vote Yes): ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpag…
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3 Oct
Dear UNHRC President @NazhatsKhan,

On Friday you cut me off while presenting a report on UNRWA teachers' systemic antisemitism. You read out a prepared statement accusing me of "inflammatory remarks" and ruled me out of order.

I urge you to apologize and rescind your ruling.
Otherwise, I will be calling on U.N. Secretary-General @AntonioGuterres to publicly declare:

1. That my quoting of antisemitic posts by UN teachers can in no way be characterized as "derogatory, insulting and inflammatory remarks" nor as "personal attacks."
2. That the highest human rights body of the United Nations has just sent a dangerous message to the world when, without any basis, you summarily and arbitrarily blocked me from presenting a report about systemic antisemitism incited daily by the teachers of UNRWA, a UN agency.
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