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We haven’t started to grapple with the fact that there was a terror attack targeting Jews in Canada this week that would have been a massacre but for police guarding the synagogue. Years of failed leadership have led to the normalization of antisemitism on both the left and right
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The federal government now says antisemitism includes anti-Zionism. That standard should apply to its own funding decisions. No federal dollars should flow to groups that engage in antisemitism, whatever word they use for Jews.
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Michael Geist Weekly Digest #26: the Belleville Yom Kippur attack, the threat assessments that predicted it, the government recognizes antisemitism includes anti-Zionism, and AI transparency
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A definition that meets the moment. Days after the Belleville Yom Kippur terror attack, the federal government’s antisemitism progress report recognizes that antisemitism includes anti-Zionism. My post on why that matters and where it should apply next.
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Since this tweet has attracted considerable commentary, I know the Song Shul services were held at the Meridian Arts Centre. It is not uncommon to hold services during high holidays in similar locations (I attended one this year). @NEWSneil did not describe it as a synagogue, he wrote synagogue services. If this had been a full-time synagogue, some of the protesters' conduct would be criminal under the newly enacted Bill C-9.
As for Mark Regev as the guest speaker during services, the tweet's description of him is not dissimilar from his Wikipedia entry.
Simply put, I don't see anything inaccurate or deceptive in the tweet thread, and the CBC’s decision to jump to disciplinary action cannot be justified by its content.
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I don’t understand why this CBC journalist is facing disciplinary action. He describes facing threats while attending a synagogue service and provides context with rise of antisemitism, terror attack and guest speaker. Thread is accurate. What’s the issue?
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Anti-Zionism is too often thinly veiled antisemitism, as if substituting the word Zionist for Jew renders the unacceptable acceptable. The federal government has now called it out in a new report, recognizing that antisemitism includes anti-Zionism.
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I don’t understand why this CBC journalist is facing disciplinary action. He describes facing threats while attending a synagogue service and provides context with rise of antisemitism, terror attack and guest speaker. Thread is accurate. What’s the issue?
I'm a journalist. And I happen to be Jewish. On Yom Kippur I went to a synagogue service in Toronto and was met by protesters trying to taunt and intimidate me from entering the building. 1/5
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Michael Geist retweeted
KINSELLA: Jewish journalist faces discipline at CBC after documenting pro-Palestine protest
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Mark Carney replaced the antisemitism envoy months ago with an advisory council tasked with prioritizing the rise in antisemitism. It has rarely met and produced nothing. The Yom Kippur attack was a failure to act, not a lack of information about risks.
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Bill C-22 makes Canada an untenable place for most tech companies to operate in, foreign and domestic. With trade uncertainty already hanging over the Canada-U.S. relationship, and a government that says it wants foreign investment, there has never been a better time to fix (delete) this misguided bill. It is in direct conflict with attracting the capital our government claims to want, and literally forces existing Canadian companies to take their taxable revenue elsewhere.
More than 20 Canadian and European tech companies and organizations sent an open letter urging the Canadian government to amend Bill C-22 before it becomes law.
The bill could leave Canadians’ data less secure, undermine encryption, and make Canada a harder place for tech companies to invest and grow.
“A backdoor for law enforcement is a backdoor for everyone.”
Read more: progresschamber.org/resource…
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Government on its objectives to combat antisemitism: “support the recognition, understanding and response to contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, including anti-Zionism”, noting “antisemitism, which includes anti-Zionism, is not always obvious.”
Three days after the Belleville Yom Kippur attack, explicit federal recognition of anti-Zionism as antisemitism. Public Safety Canada's progress report, released today, in its own words: "Antisemitism, which includes anti-Zionism, is not always obvious."
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“Make no mistake, this was a targeted attack against the Jewish community,” Chief Murray Rodd said.
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Three days after the Belleville Yom Kippur attack, explicit federal recognition of anti-Zionism as antisemitism. Public Safety Canada's progress report, released today, in its own words: "Antisemitism, which includes anti-Zionism, is not always obvious."
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The Senate is expected to take up second reading of Bill C-22 this fall.
@Apple, @Windscribe, @Tailscale, @signalapp, and more are sounding the alarm about what it could mean for user privacy. 🔒
Privacy and security are central to the technology we build. That’s why we joined other Canadian and European tech organizations in a new letter outlining concerns about Bill C-22.
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Canadian tech companies warn about consequences of Bill C-22, the lawful access bill now at the Senate:
“Bill C-22 would weaken our competitiveness and erode trust in Canada’s tech industry…puts our companies at risk.”
Letter at progresschamber.org/resource…
Tech, VPN companies call on Ottawa to make more changes to lawful-access bill theglobeandmail.com/politics…
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Michael Geist retweeted
Some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until someone from a younger generation cracked the code.
Hear the story: link.podtrac.com/phns92ui
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CSIS's ITAC issues repeated threat assessments warning of violence against Jews linked to the normalization of antisemitism, the violence comes as predicted, and the response is thoughts and prayers. The failure is not intelligence. It is normalization.
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The Belleville Yom Kippur attack wasn't just predictable, but predicted. Multiple CSIS threat assessments warned of a lone actor with a simple weapon at an accessible target, fuelled by the normalization of antisemitism. Nobody can say they weren't warned.
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Michael Geist retweeted
Fundraising campaign set up for Belleville Synagogue
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Mandated transparency should be the starting point for any AI regulatory framework. My submission to the Canadian government consultation on the need for a new AI Transparency Act.
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