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Remembering the Committee of Concerned Canadian Jews and their fight for Palestinian rights
Weinberg, Paul
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/independent-jewish-voices-canada/2021/05/remembering-committee-concerned-canadianDate Written: 2021-05-17 Publisher: rabble.ca Year Published: 2021 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24335 Sometime in the summer of 1982, Jews in their 20s and 30s in Toronto, including myself, came out in droves to meetings of the new Committee of Concerned Canadian Jews (CCCJ). (Yes, our name was a bit awkward and wordy.) Abstract: - Excerpt: Any open criticism of Israel was strictly taboo in the tightly knit postwar Canadian Jewish community, which included many refugees and Nazi death camp survivors. Many community members, including my parents, viewed the founding of a Jewish state in 1948 as a miracle and central to their identity and existence, and a place of refuge from antisemitism. Fissures started to develop following the opportunistic invasion launched by Israeli defence minister Ariel Sharon. Then came the horror of the mid-September massacre of more than 1,300 Palestinian and Lebanese men, women and children in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. Members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stood by as their allied Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia men went about their rampage. Subject Headings |