Queers Against Israeli Apartheid To Return to Toronto Pride 2012:
CIJA: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid to Return to Toronto Pride
http://www.cija.ca/community-2/queers-against-israeli-apartheid-to-retur...
"The activist group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid plans to return to the Pride parade this summer raising the possibility of another battle over whether to provide city money to the major gay festival. The group, also known as QuAIA skipped Pride last year to deny Rob Ford what it called a 'pretext' to withdraw the city;s grant...
'The funding decision is the city's itself,' said Howard English, senior vice-president of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
'None of us here at CIJA are members of council. We don't have a vote. But we certainly hope that in making its decision, council keeps in mind the hateful nature of QuAIA's messaging and the extend to which it's divorced from the reality of public opinion among the people of Toronto'
CIJA: Howard English (416) 631-5735 henglish@cija.ca
Rob Ford & Toronto Council
http://toronto.about.com/od/civicscityservices/tp/city-councillors_conta...
Hands Off QuAIA! Hands off Pride! Free Palestine!
Rob Ford is the sort who will make a big show out of fighting to keep QuAIA out of Toronto Pride, but would have been outspoken in his opposition to allowing Jewish refugees to enter Canada in the late 1930's if he'd lived in that era.
Make Pride Parade Funding Contingent on Non-Participation of QuAIA, Pasternak Says
http://www.jewishtribune.ca/news/2012/05/29/make-pride-parade-funding-co...
"Pasternak confirmed that the city's economic development committee has approved a grant for Pride Toronto in the amount of $123,807.00. He said city council will address the issue of QuAIA when it meets next week.
'My intent is to block the funding on June 6 and wait until after the parade to make sure they didn't march,' said Pasternak. 'We believe that QuAIA is not there to support the Palestinian people, it's there to bully and demonize Israel, its supporters and the Jewish community.'
councillor_pasternak@toronto.ca
Ph (416) 392-1371
Is this Pasternak related to the "Doctor Zhivago" dude?
Oh just for the hell of it...
As the coordinator of my housing co-op, who is originally from Poland, took great glee in pointing out (admittedly, in different circumstances) the surname Pasternak literally means parsnip.
The obvious questions that comes to my mind is, what root vegetable is translated as Ford?
*waves to Maysie*
or CIJA...
Centre Commends Toronto City Council For Condemning the Use of the Erroneous Term Israel Apartheid at Toronto's Pride Parade
http://www.cija.ca/community-2/the-centre-commends-toronto-city-council-...
"Following Toronto City Council's principled decision to roundly condemn the term Israeli Apartheid at Toronto's Pride Parade, Howard English, Senior Vice President, Greater Toronto Region of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, issued the following statement..."
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I LOVE parsnips, especially roasted with a big chunk of dead domesticated animal and some Yorkshire pudding.
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid allowed to march in Toronto Pride Parade
Out of interest, was the Kulanu contingent a sea of Israeli flags again this year?
'Look For the Israeli Flags!'
http://www.cija.ca/community-2/march-with-kulanu-at-toronto's gay-pride-parade/
Marching with QuAIA at Pride 2012:
We're sexy, we're hot, Israeli apartheid's not!