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01/20/2009: "Gaza protests violate Canadian laws: Jewish Congress"
Canada's largest Jewish advocacy group will ask police to investigate whether hate laws were broken during recent rallies held in cities across Canada to condemn Israel's attacks on Gaza - an allegation roundly dismissed Tuesday by the group's Arab counterpart.
Mohamed Boudjenane, executive director of the Canadian Arab Federation, dismissed the tactic as an attempt to divert attention from the horrors of Gaza - horrors perpetrated, he said, by the Israeli military.
"We had 10,000 people (protest)," Boudjenane said.
"How can you control every single person there and not have someone who will scream some weird stuff or someone who could have a flag of Hamas or whatever? But the purpose of the march has nothing to do with that."
[ Can the Jewish Congress seriously be suggesting that it should be illegal to protest in Canada against the Gaza massacres? Do they not realise how bad PR that is?! Do they court universal hatred of Jews or something? ]
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/570376