{"id":403011,"date":"2019-04-13T01:20:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T00:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cija-zionist-lobbying-and-hate-crimes\/"},"modified":"2019-04-13T01:20:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T00:20:52","slug":"cija-zionist-lobbying-and-hate-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cija-zionist-lobbying-and-hate-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"CIJA: Zionist Lobbying and Hate Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs\u2019 response to the horrific attack on two mosques in New Zealand highlights tensions between promoting the most aggressive ongoing European settler colonialism and Jewish Canadian concern over hate crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-eight hours after the killings in Christchurch the <em>Toronto Star<\/em> published letters by the heads of CIJA and Toronto\u2019s Jewish Federation under the headline \u201cJewish Canadians stand with Muslims.\u201d CIJA\u2019s quick response to the mosque attack no doubt reflected genuine horror as well as an understanding that as a minority religious group disproportionately victimized by hate crimes Jews have an interest in building solidarity against such violence. But, it also represents a cynical \u2018get out ahead of the story\u2019 type of public relations from a group that regularly demonizes Muslims in defence of Israel\u2019s subjugation of Palestinians. CIJA, which is the lobbying arm of Canada\u2019s Jewish Federations, claims Israel is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/montreal-jewish-community-condemns-second-intimidation-attempt-by-anti-israel-extremists-515222251.html\">fighting<\/a> against the Palestinian shackles of international Islamism that has been wreaking absolute havoc all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CIJA regularly hypes \u201cIslamic terror\u201d. In response to a 2017 truck attack in Nice, France, CIJA declared \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcija.ca%2Fpress-release-terror-attack-in-nice-cija-calls-for-implementation-of-robust-counter-radicalization-efforts%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C3e93276c601c455f503d08d6ac216920%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636885656826500253&amp;sdata=1a3rhXLSyhl5VWQAZO7XXXSTEqTreVhR7518tfD5bco%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Canada<\/a> is not immune to\u2026 Islamist terror\u201d and in 2018 they highlighted \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.ca%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DShimon%2BKoffler%2BFogel%2Bhighlighted%2B%25E2%2580%259Cthose%2Bstrains%2Bof%2BIslam%2Bthat%2Bpose%2Ba%2Breal%2Band%2Bimminent%2Bthreat%2Bto%2BJews%2Baround%2Bthe%2Bworld%26oq%3DShimon%2BKoffler%2BFogel%2Bhighlighted%2B%25E2%2580%259Cthose%2Bstrains%2Bof%2BIslam%2Bthat%2Bpose%2Ba%2Breal%2Band%2Bimminent%2Bthreat%2Bto%2BJews%2Baround%2Bthe%2Bworld%26aqs%3Dchrome..69i57.629j0j7%26sourceid%3Dchrome%26ie%3DUTF-8&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C3e93276c601c455f503d08d6ac216920%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636885656826510257&amp;sdata=%2B0v0tdffofp2xSjqTy4zxRANr0MOoP9woY0sMfdmQmw%3D&amp;reserved=0\">those strains<\/a> of Islam that pose a real and imminent threat to Jews around the world.\u201d At the time CIJA also aligned with the xenophobic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_ca\/article\/78d8va\/we-spoke-with-the-mp-behind-motion-m103-about-threats-conspiracies-and-islamophobia\">backlash<\/a> against the term \u201cIslamophobia in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/04\/cija-zionist-lobbying-and-hate-crimes\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs\u2019 response to the horrific attack on two mosques in New Zealand highlights tensions between promoting the most aggressive ongoing European settler colonialism and Jewish Canadian concern over hate crimes. Forty-eight hours after the killings in Christchurch the Toronto Star published letters by the heads of CIJA and Toronto\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}