Category: Editorials

Turmoil of the Middle East in our backyard

TORONTO – The latest pleas for action by (CIJA) the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (“This motion must be stopped” This Week in Canadian Jewish Advocacy, www.cija.ca) is yet another signal that Israel is losing the public relations war in Gaza, and that the Jewish Diaspora may be its most significant victim. With few isolated exceptions, before October 8, 2023, the Diaspora could count on Western society’s virtually unconditional support for the State of Israel as a Jewish state. The events since then have been testing that “bond”. 

CORRIERE CANADESE / La protesta all’AGO è stata un’intimidazione alimentata dall’inazione della polizia

Pubblichiamo un articolo di Flavio Volpe uscito in Inglese nell’edizione di giovedì del Toronto Star.

TORONTO – Diciotto anni prima che mio nonno Luciano emigrasse dall’Italia del dopoguerra e si stabilisse a Kensington Market, italiani ed ebrei di Toronto si unirono per combattere il razzismo e il fanatismo nella famosa rivolta di Christie Pits del 1933. Da tempo una leggenda delle relazioni razziali di Toronto, quell’aneddoto era ricorrente nelle menti di molti dei partecipanti al naufragato ricevimento di amicizia tra Italia e Canada presso l’Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) sabato sera… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>

The AGO protest was intimidation fuelled by police inaction

We publish an article by Flavio Volpe, from last Thursday’s edition of the Toronto Star.

TORONTO – Eighteen years before my grandfather Luciano emigrated from postwar Italy and settled in Kensington Market, Italians and Jews in Toronto stood together to fight racism and bigotry in the famous Christie Pits riot of 1933. Long a legend of Toronto race relations, that anecdote was on the minds of many of the attendees of the derailed Italy-Canada friendship reception at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) on Saturday night.