{"id":12121,"date":"2009-12-20T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12121"},"modified":"2009-12-20T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T17:44:11","slug":"cecilie-surasky-7-million-muzzling-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12121","title":{"rendered":"Cecilie Surasky: $7 million muzzling shocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canadian government cuts off funds for church group it calls anti-Semitic<br \/>\nby Cecilie Surasky, Muzzle Watch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muzzlewatch.com\/2009\/12\/19\/71-million-muzzling-shocker-canadian-government-cuts-off-funds-for-church-group-it-calls-anti-semitic\/\">19 December 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite a 35-year collaboration, the Canadian church group KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberal.ca\/en\/newsroom\/media-releases\/17057_liberals-denounce-funding-cuts-to-kairos\">one of Canada\u2019s most respected<\/a> and important charitable organizations,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/December2009\/18\/c4604.html\">was stunned when their likely routine 7 million dollar request for the human rights program was denied<\/a> by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). But they were even more surprised when they discovered why: although the group\u2019s board had made public their opposition to sanctions and boycotts against Israel 2 years earlier, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney in a speech he gave this week in Israel charged the group with being anti-Semitic for \u201ctaking a leadership role in the boycott.\u201d Kenney, speaking at the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, said they were \u201cdefunding\u201d groups as part of their new \u201czero-tolerance\u201d approach to anti-Semitism.\u00a0 (Read the full text of his speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickdykstra.ca\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1919&amp;Itemid=51\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.muzzlewatch.com\/2009\/12\/19\/71-million-muzzling-shocker-canadian-government-cuts-off-funds-for-church-group-it-calls-anti-semitic\/\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian government cuts off funds for church group it calls anti-Semitic by Cecilie Surasky, Muzzle Watch, 19 December 2009 Despite a 35-year collaboration, the Canadian church group KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, \u201cone of Canada\u2019s most respected and important charitable &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12121\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-39v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12124,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121\/revisions\/12124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}