• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    According to three Ontario-based lawyers who spoke to CBC News, some employers and institutions have been quick to take action against employees or students, creating an environment in which many are afraid they will lose their jobs or face consequences to their education if they express a political stance in favour of one side — Palestinians — during this war.

    Esmonde noted a Nov. 23 United Nations statement in which a group of UN special rapporteurs expressed alarm at what they say is a global stifling of critique of Israeli government policies or calls for a ceasefire, which they said “have in too many contexts been misleadingly equated with support for terrorism or antisemitism.”

    Last month, according to an official email seen by CBC News, George Brown College in Toronto  put Bashir Munye, a culinary instructor, on paid leave while it investigated complaints related to one of his Instagram posts.

    The last post on his account related to the war, made before he was put on paid leave, uses the phrase “From the river to the sea” and the words “genocide” and “apartheid” to describe Israeli government actions against Palestinians.

    She pointed to a post by B’nai B’rith Canada, a Jewish community and advocacy organization that describes itself as a “staunch defender of the state of Israel” whose mandate includes combating racism and antisemitism, that went up about a week after the protest.

    According to Esmonde, the labour lawyer with Cavalluzzo Law, assuming the employees are not part of a union, they would need to either sue Moxies for wrongful dismissal or make a complaint to a provincial employment standards officer if they wanted to challenge their termination.


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  • RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    I definitely don’t think being pro Palestinian warrants losing your job and all of that. Just as being pro Israel should not warrant it. But there’s a limit. Are you being pro Palestine or are you screaming death to the jews. There’s a big difference. Seems people get caught up in the heat of this extremely contentious issue and forget that neither side in this decades old conflict is without sin. People become extreme in their beliefs and go overboard. If you fuck around like that, well, you get what you deserve.

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      11 months ago

      I think it’s the grey area where there is no clear line where the problem is. In the article there are cases where a line was considered crossed for using words like “genocide” to describe what Israel is doing and the much maligned “from the river to the sea” slogan (what people seem to forget is that it is a rhetorical inversion of the first article in Likud’s foundational Manifesto).

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      11 months ago

      People got censured for saying “killing Palestinians is bad” while not mentioning Jews once, simply because they didn’t condemn Hamas.