Anti-Semitism - Abid Jan Ottawa https://abidullahjan.com Sharing learning to leverage success Fri, 03 Feb 2023 01:49:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://abidullahjan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/android-chrome-512x512-1-100x100.png Anti-Semitism - Abid Jan Ottawa https://abidullahjan.com 32 32 United for All coalition condemns rise in antisemitism https://abidullahjan.com/united-for-all-coalition-condemns-rise-in-antisemitism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=united-for-all-coalition-condemns-rise-in-antisemitism https://abidullahjan.com/united-for-all-coalition-condemns-rise-in-antisemitism/#respond Mon, 12 Dec 2022 22:48:42 +0000 https://abidullahjan.com/?p=2287 United for All partners are deeply disturbed by the rise in casual and overt antisemitism in local schools, online, and in our communities. We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, and…

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]]> https://abidullahjan.com/united-for-all-coalition-condemns-rise-in-antisemitism/feed/ 0 Anti-semitic hate crime on the rise in the mainstream across Canada, U.S. https://abidullahjan.com/anti-semitic-hate-crime-on-the-rise-in-the-mainstream-across-canada-u-s/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anti-semitic-hate-crime-on-the-rise-in-the-mainstream-across-canada-u-s https://abidullahjan.com/anti-semitic-hate-crime-on-the-rise-in-the-mainstream-across-canada-u-s/#respond Sat, 10 Dec 2022 22:41:37 +0000 https://abidullahjan.com/?p=2280 I know the rise in anti-Semitism is not representative of our community here in Ottawa, but its happening and its outrageous, hurtful and wrong. All of us need to strongly condemn the…

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]]> https://abidullahjan.com/anti-semitic-hate-crime-on-the-rise-in-the-mainstream-across-canada-u-s/feed/ 0 Jews defining hate against Jews isn’t controversial. Ignoring their lived experience is https://abidullahjan.com/jews-defining-hate-against-jews-isnt-controversial-ignoring-their-lived-experience-is/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jews-defining-hate-against-jews-isnt-controversial-ignoring-their-lived-experience-is https://abidullahjan.com/jews-defining-hate-against-jews-isnt-controversial-ignoring-their-lived-experience-is/#respond Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:18:49 +0000 https://abidullahjan.com/?p=2264 Police-reported hate crime data from Statistics Canada shows that Jews remain Canada’s most targeted religious minority and the second-most targeted minority overall. Though less than one percent of the population, Jews were…

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]]> https://abidullahjan.com/jews-defining-hate-against-jews-isnt-controversial-ignoring-their-lived-experience-is/feed/ 0 Antisemitism isn’t just ‘Jew-hatred’ – it’s anti-Jewish racism https://abidullahjan.com/antisemitism-isnt-just-jew-hatred-its-anti-jewish-racism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=antisemitism-isnt-just-jew-hatred-its-anti-jewish-racism https://abidullahjan.com/antisemitism-isnt-just-jew-hatred-its-anti-jewish-racism/#respond Sun, 20 Nov 2022 20:45:47 +0000 https://abidullahjan.com/?p=2229 “As a political scientist studying contemporary antisemitism and the current arguments about it, I believe this pattern stems from fundamental misunderstandings about what antisemitism is and how it works.”

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]]> https://abidullahjan.com/antisemitism-isnt-just-jew-hatred-its-anti-jewish-racism/feed/ 0 Ontario Government introducing Grade 6 Holocaust education requirement in 2023 https://abidullahjan.com/holocaust_education/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=holocaust_education https://abidullahjan.com/holocaust_education/#respond Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:20:53 +0000 https://abidullahjan.com/?p=2205 Ontario government introducing Grade 6 Holocaust education requirement in 2023 History has shown us that genocide and other atrocities begin with hate. Hate begins with words and manifests itself in various forms.…

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]]> https://abidullahjan.com/holocaust_education/feed/ 0 Rise in antisemitism: Silence is complicity https://abidullahjan.com/rise-in-antisemitism-silence-is-complicity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rise-in-antisemitism-silence-is-complicity https://abidullahjan.com/rise-in-antisemitism-silence-is-complicity/#respond Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:16:16 +0000 https://abidullahjan.com/?p=2201 It’s dawning on 2023, and we witness an anti-Semitic group hanging a banner from an L.A. overpass https://lnkd.in/eQKwqyzg Such outrageous efforts to fan the flames of hatred and bigotry at this age in human…

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]]> https://abidullahjan.com/rise-in-antisemitism-silence-is-complicity/feed/ 0 The antidotes to prejudice https://abidullahjan.com/the-anti-dot-to-prejudice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-anti-dot-to-prejudice https://abidullahjan.com/the-anti-dot-to-prejudice/#respond Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:38:13 +0000 https://abidullahjan.com/?p=2075 The antidotes to prejudice: “‘I’m not going to hide. I’m not going to allow myself to disappear because I do want to challenge other good people to stand up and say no.…

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]]> https://abidullahjan.com/the-anti-dot-to-prejudice/feed/ 0 The pyramid of hate https://abidullahjan.com/the-pyramid-of-hate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-pyramid-of-hate https://abidullahjan.com/the-pyramid-of-hate/#respond Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:19:59 +0000 https://abidullahjan.com/?p=2053 Like a real pyramid, the pyramid of hate must be build up from the bottom. The layers at the top of the pyramid require all the layers beneath it, or it will…

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]]> https://abidullahjan.com/the-pyramid-of-hate/feed/ 0 We need to call out hate collectively https://abidullahjan.com/we-need-to-call-out-hate-collectively/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-need-to-call-out-hate-collectively https://abidullahjan.com/we-need-to-call-out-hate-collectively/#respond Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:23:25 +0000 https://abidullahjan.com/?p=1740 In 2016, people gathered and shouted at a bus full of refugees: “We are people”. In other words, they meant, “you are not.” It was pure hatred. Hate is not the same…

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]]> https://abidullahjan.com/we-need-to-call-out-hate-collectively/feed/ 0 WeRemember https://abidullahjan.com/weremember/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weremember https://abidullahjan.com/weremember/#respond Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:38:19 +0000 https://abidullahjan.com/?p=1826 Today, we remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered and millions of other victims during the Holocaust. Sadly, we have seen a rise in antisemitism and hate in Ottawa and across…

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]]> https://abidullahjan.com/weremember/feed/ 0 Standing with the Jewish community https://abidullahjan.com/standing-with-the-jewish-community/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=standing-with-the-jewish-community https://abidullahjan.com/standing-with-the-jewish-community/#respond Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:19:40 +0000 https://abidullahjan.com/?p=1763 UWEO and the United for All Coalition members issued the following statement today. Over the past few weeks, unacceptable instances of anti-Semitic and homophobic graffiti and posters have appeared around Ottawa. The…

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]]> https://abidullahjan.com/standing-with-the-jewish-community/feed/ 0 Statement on the Islamophobic attack on London, Ontario family https://abidullahjan.com/statement-on-the-islamophobic-attack-on-london-ontario-family/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=statement-on-the-islamophobic-attack-on-london-ontario-family https://abidullahjan.com/statement-on-the-islamophobic-attack-on-london-ontario-family/#respond Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:16:22 +0000 https://abidullahjan.com/?p=1736 United Way East Ontario and the United for All Coalition issued the following public statement today. On behalf of the United For All Coalition, we are sharing this statement about the horrific…

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