ADL slams Belgian teacher honoured at Iran’s Holocaust cartoon contest

The Anti-Defamation League condemned the actions of a former teacher at a prestigious Catholic school in Belgium, whose caricature comparing Israel and the Nazis won a prize in Iran’s cartoon contest mocking the Holocaust. “Malice or ignorance” were the teacher’s “only possible explanations for comparing Israel to the Nazis and entering an Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest,” said […]

Peel teacher suspended for anti-Israel speech at Al-Quds rally

B’nai Brith Canada and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Afffairs (CIJA) are praising the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board for suspending a teacher they say glorified terrorists and called for violence against Israelis in a speech last month at Queen’s Park. The school board released a statement Aug. 9 announcing that Nadia Shoufani, a teacher […]

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