[ April 20, 2024 ]
Administrators at a school in Toronto said a flag representing Jewish Heritage Month could not hang in the halls of the building because it looked too much like the banner of Israel, and was therefore too “controversial.”
They ordered the flag to be removed.
This was after it had hung for weeks in the main foyer of the high school. It was only after the principal fielded a few questions from parents and students that he decided, largely on his own, to yank it.
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Parents and students then fought back and told the principal to put it back. An apology was later issued.
But the whole brouhaha was unnecessary in the first place.
B’nai Brith Canada has the story:
B’nai Brith Canada is expressing its outrage after the principal of a Toronto public school removed a banner made by students for Jewish Heritage Month, in a decision upheld by officials at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB).
The banner had hung for a week without incident in the main foyer of Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, a midtown Toronto high school with a large Jewish population, before being removed without notice or consultation on Monday. When questioned by students and parents, Principal Reiko Fuentes told them that, although originally approved, the banner was “too controversial” because it resembled the Israeli flag.
Parents of Jewish students at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute are fuming. Yael Elfassy, the mother of one of the students who made the banner, told B’nai Brith that, “The principal’s decision to remove the banner is totally unacceptable. She has no right to tell Jewish students to remove Israel from their heritage.”
When contacted by B’nai Brith, TDSB officials suggested that the banner be displayed internally at Jewish Heritage Month events organized by students, but stood by Principal Fuentes’ decision to remove the banner from the main foyer.
“The TDSB is making a mockery of Jewish Heritage Month,” said Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada. “This month is supposed to symbolize the acceptance and inclusion of Jewish students and teachers in Toronto schools, but is now marking the exact opposite.
“The administration at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute must immediately return the Jewish Heritage Month banner to its rightful place, and apologize to the Jewish students who have had their heritage denigrated by their own principal.”
The drive to mark Jewish Heritage Month at the high school came after students returned from the March of the Living, an annual program that takes Jewish youth to Poland to learn about the horrors of the Holocaust, and then to Israel to witness the revival of Jewish statehood in their indigenous homeland.
Upon their return, students expressed interest in holding Holocaust education workshops at their school, and were told by administrators to combine these activities with Jewish Heritage Month, which is marked in Ontario and across Canada in May.
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25 Comments
5 years ago
Gee, Canada, what happened to diveristy and inclusivity? I thought you celebrated diversity.
5 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
They support inclusivity unconditionally when it comes to Muslims, less so regarding Jews, who are no longer seen so much as “victims” by the left.
5 years ago
Toronto is heeding to Sharia Law demands. Islam teaches to hate Jews…all infidels. Muslims carry their hate with jihad. Toronto has had two recent terrorist attacks. The USA needs to build a big, strong wall on the northern border to keep the barbaric muslims out of the USA. Canada is infested with muslims.
5 years ago
Justa Truedolt’s Canada is a pos.
5 years ago
They are taking out conservative, patriots , anti-Left/liberal and anti-jihad posts and allow jihadis to continue !
Like this news of brutal gang rape of swedish girl and what they did to her is even worse
http://bit.ly/2z2rVov
But it was suppressed /played down !
5 years ago
Canada land of the beta male
5 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
Its sad. Canadian women will make wonderful sex slaves for their soon to be Muslim masters
5 years ago
Translation:
If OFFENDED MUSLIMS.
It’s so easy to see countries lining up AGAINST Israel. ALL nations will eventually turn on Israel. I never dreamed this could happen in my lifetime. It’s so nuts our there that it is possible….
All nations go against Israel at the Battle of Armageddon.
God will judge all nations because all nations have gone against Israel.
Joel 3:2 – “I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.”
Zechariah 14:2 – “For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.”
All nations will go against Israel at the Battle of Gog and Magog.
Rev. 20:8 – “And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.”
Ezekiel 38 and 39 speaks of God drawing God and Magog to battle against Israel.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Keep up offending the Muslims and there supporters, Felix. Great post by the way.
5 years ago
The administrators of this school should be removed.
5 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
If it were a Muslim issue, the administrators would have been removed. The old double standard, apparently favors Muslims. Jews are the eternal enemy of not only Islam but the leftist progressives who have infiltrated the education systems throughout the Western, one upon a time, Democracies.
5 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
If it were a Muslim issue, the administrators would have been removed. The old double standard, apparently favors Muslims. Jews are the eternal enemy of not only Islam but the leftist progressives who have infiltrated the education systems throughout the Western, one upon a time, Democracies.
5 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
If it were a Muslim issue, the administrators would have been removed. The old double standard, apparently favors Muslims. Jews are the eternal enemy of not only Islam but the leftist progressives who have infiltrated the education systems throughout the Western, one upon a time, Democracies.
5 years ago
The left has ALWAYS chosen Muslims over Jews, this may be a surprise, but not a huge shock in hindsight.
5 years ago
The left has ALWAYS chosen Muslims over Jews, this may be a surprise, but not a huge shock in hindsight.
5 years ago
The left has ALWAYS chosen Muslims over Jews, this may be a surprise, but not a huge shock in hindsight.
5 years ago
Huh? Looks like two triangles too me.
5 years ago
Eventually everyone is going to choose between Israel & islum!
5 years ago
Does everyone understand that the left (in Canada it’s the Liberal and NDP parties) (in the USA it’s the Democratic Party) have moved so far left that they are one with Islamism and Communism. Thus the relatively new hatred of Jews ! The boards of education in both countries are run by extreme left people with little or no understanding of history !
5 years ago
here is the progressive cretin
http://schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/portals/foresthill/images/reiko.jpg
5 years ago
In the US, we have State Flags with a Cross on them. On an International level, many countries fo as well. That includes the Union Jack and the Cross of St. Andrew.
The Star of David is what visually links all of us Jews. Some self-haters may not like it, but do they really count as Jews?
The big problem is that Canada, in it’s quest for multiculturalism, has forgotten its First People, (Indians) and now is setting aside all the rules a civilization needs to run itself. Much of this is because of the leader they elected, and he is doing what he thinks the people want him to do.
Sorry, but Canada is not a Democracy. It isn’t even a sovereign nation. It is still part of the Commonwealth, and just as stupid. You can bring in new people all you want, but if they turn on you, it is your fault. If you don’t correct your problem, it will grow like cancer. And, piggybacking on the US economy is not going to work very lone.
