Elle Flanders

I urge you to drop the witch hunt against Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, the LGBT community and the larger agenda to defund Toronto Pride. It is time to calm the rhetoric.

The lessons to be learned here are numerous but none more so than why politics matters, why we can never rest and think that while some of us have achieved equal rights, the battles are over.

As a Canadian Jew who grew up in Israel, I am stymied. My Israeli friends debate what happens there freely. I say the same in Toronto, and I am not only an anti-Semite, but an enemy of the state.

The CPCCA and the Israel lobby groups that surround it have taken the charge of anti-semitism to new and exaggerated heights.