by Mark Hasiuk
from The Vancouver Courier

BACK IN March 2009, two federal heavyweights—Irwin Cotler (pictured), former Liberal justice minister, and Jason Kenney, current Conservative minister of citizenship—founded the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism. The name speaks for itself. A report featuring statistics and policy recommendations should be released sometime this fall.

But a new book titled Antisemitism: Real and Imagined penned by Michael Keefer, an English professor at the University of Guelph, argues that Cotler and company care little about combatting bigotry and much more about coddling Israel. Their strategy, to conflate criticism of Israeli policy with antisemitism, represents an assault on free speech and civil discourse….

“If you come forward . . . → Read More: Canada: “Antisemitism” – Real and Imagined