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Hi Bari, I thought you might be interested in a developing story in Canada that has more than a whiff of systemic anti-semitism. The CBC(aka CBC/Radio Canada) the country's publicly funded government-owned broadcaster, started a whisper campaign insinuating the "dual loyalties" canard against Vivian Bercovici, who was Canada's ambassador to the State of Israel under the previous, Conservative, Harper administration, and who is Jewish. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vivian-bercovici-israel-embassy-ambassador-1.5964168. Not content to leave this be, the CBC followed up with another story, which gratuitously added a photo of Canada's Senator Linda Frum standing next to an Israeli flag. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vivian-bercovici-black-cube-1.6034555 She is also Jewish, and sister of David Frum.

Senator Frum is an extraordinary personality, and a key influence if the previous Conservative government led by Stephen Harper, and as such not one to take this without response, and today respond she did, with a statement to her Senate colleagues which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj8qZj1jGps&t=7s

Bari, please as a member of FAIR and from this important platform you have built here, consider exposing this to the American and Canadian public. This is a shameful episode of truly systemic prejudice and discrimination against people who have incontrovertibly been victimized in this way.

Thank you,

George Burger

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I am a recent subscriber.Thank you for these ten principles. I abhor the divisiveness of segregating people based on skin color or other such characteristics. I grew up believing that was wrong. I grew up believing in civility, that robust debate and disagreement was to be expected and not the occasion to cancel someone. I have always had as my heroes Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln , Winston Churchill, FDR, Golda Meir, John Adams and a few others. None was perfect but they each displayed courage , conviction, intelligence and concern for people. I now discover to my dismay that all of western civilization is evil and must be totally replaced. It is very disheartening for me . I was a member of the Board of a charter school network but felt obliged to resign when it adopted white supremacy training which was designed to tell Black kids that an emphasis on writing was one of many indicia of white supremacy. I believe that this is factually wrong and condescending to those children. I am very pleased to discover your Common Sense and look forward to reading more.

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