PDSB has added a day set up to denounce the creation of Israel to the official school board calendar
https://torontosun.com/opinion/colu...ard-goes-political-with-nakba-day-on-calendar
Nakba Day is a highly contentious, highly political commemoration against the establishment of Israel in 1948. The day is marked on May 15, the day after Israel’s Independence Day, and was started in the Arab world as a protest against Israel’s existence.
The name of the day comes from the phrase Dhikra an-Nakba, which means Memory of the Catastrophe. We now have a school board officially recognizing the establishment of the State of Israel as a catastrophe.
“Peel District School Board failed to follow its own policies when it added the ‘Nakba Remembrance Day’ to the Days of Significance calendar,” reads the form email that is being sent again and again.
“Including the ‘Nakba Remembrance Day’ marks the first time a school board in Canada has officially adopted a day of significance that is in objection to the independence of a sovereign, democratically elected country (one of the only of its kind in the Middle East), and one of Canada’s long-standing allies.”
A request for comment to board members receiving the email was sent on Friday and as of this writing, no response has been received. A statement was issued last week by the Peel District School Board before this campaign started.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/colu...ard-goes-political-with-nakba-day-on-calendar
Nakba Day is a highly contentious, highly political commemoration against the establishment of Israel in 1948. The day is marked on May 15, the day after Israel’s Independence Day, and was started in the Arab world as a protest against Israel’s existence.
The name of the day comes from the phrase Dhikra an-Nakba, which means Memory of the Catastrophe. We now have a school board officially recognizing the establishment of the State of Israel as a catastrophe.
“Peel District School Board failed to follow its own policies when it added the ‘Nakba Remembrance Day’ to the Days of Significance calendar,” reads the form email that is being sent again and again.
“Including the ‘Nakba Remembrance Day’ marks the first time a school board in Canada has officially adopted a day of significance that is in objection to the independence of a sovereign, democratically elected country (one of the only of its kind in the Middle East), and one of Canada’s long-standing allies.”
A request for comment to board members receiving the email was sent on Friday and as of this writing, no response has been received. A statement was issued last week by the Peel District School Board before this campaign started.
