Concordia University and Canadian Jewish News

Julien Bauer: In a recent Canadian Jewish News interview long time l'Université du Québec à Montréal professor Julien Bauer slurs Arabs and Muslims as he bemoans "anti-Semitism." "In the corridors of UQAM, there are occasionally pro-Hamas demonstrations and anti-Semitic posters, but this is relatively rare," Bauer wrote in French. "At Concordia University, it an anti-Semitic festival every day of the year! This is normal because there are many more Arab and Muslim students at Concordia than UQAM." The Jewish community leading media outlet, which recently called Jews the "Chosen People", failed to question Bauer racism and Islamophobia, according to Huffington Post Canada. Instead, they put his picture on the front of the Québec edition. Over the past several weeks Jewish leaders have labeled a student General Assembly at McGill University, art depicting Palestinian resistance at York and an effort at that university to divest from arms makers as "anti-Semitic". Head of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center Avi Benlolo, described the arms divestment effort at York, since it includes Students Against Israeli Apartheid, as "a malicious campaign that targets and singles out the Jewish community as a collective, demonizes Israel and Israelis, applies unfair double standards to Israel at the exclusion of other nations in the Middle East and rejects the legitimacy of Israel as the only Jewish state in the world, thereby inciting an abhorrent resurgence of anti-Semitism." "Parliamentarians have uttered the words "anti-Semitism" and "anti-Semitic" more in the past decade than "racism" or "racist". " Rather than calming the tantrum, Canadian political leaders often contribute to the hysteria of certain Jewish groups. Almost entirely divorced from its dictionary definition -- "discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews" -- it is now primarily invoked to uphold Jewish/white privilege. During the recent debate to condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign MPs repeatedly accused a movement demanding Israel comply with international law of being "anti-Semitic". The terms "anti-Semitic" and "anti-Semitism" were invoked over 80 times in a debate to justify Jewish/white supremacy in the Middle East. Despite widespread discussion of "anti-Semitism", there is little discussion of Canadian Jewry actual place in Canadian society. According to Hansard, parliamentarians have uttered the words "anti-Semitism" and "anti-Semitic" more in the past decade than "racism" or "racist". The term "anti-blackness" was not recorded in the House of Commons during this period. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.