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B’nai Brith Canada urges LGBT community not to allow their agenda to be hijacked by anti-Israel agitatorsPosted On 05/20/09
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
B’nai Brith Canada urges LGBT community not to allow their agenda to be hijacked by anti-Israel agitators
TORONTO, May 20, 2009 – B’nai Brith Canada has called on members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community to voice their public opposition to Israel apartheid campaigns that seek to delegitimize the Jewish State and its supporters here at home. The Jewish human rights organization issued this call in the wake of an event being convened this week in Toronto by a group calling itself “Queers Against Israeli Apartheid”. The organization also noted with concern that a featured speaker at this event is the 2009 Pride Grand Marshal.
“We are in the midst of a global propaganda campaign aimed at vilifying Israel that has penetrated diverse Canadian arenas,” said Frank Dimant, B’nai Brith Canada’s Executive Vice President. “Echoes of this insidious campaign have been felt at the union level, on campuses, on our city streets, and now appear to be making their way into the LGBT community.
“It is the height of irony to single out democratic Israel in this fashion when it is the only country in the Middle East that guarantees the fundamental freedoms of all its citizens without distinction. In stark contrast, the rights of the LGBT community in neighbouring Arab countries are routinely trampled on.
“Members of Canada’s LGBT community who are constantly battling discrimination should be mindful not to become part and parcel of the anti-Israel machinery that continues to churn out hateful and divisive propaganda.”
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For more information, please contact, Karen Lazar, National Director of Communications:
416-633-6224 X 140 / cell: 416-312-9173
B’nai Brith Canada has been active in Canada since 1875
as the Jewish community’s foremost human rights agency
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