In a first for Canada, a school board has included in its calendar Nakba Remembrance Day, aka the “day of catastrophe” when the State of Israel was created in 1948. The Peel District School Board, near Toronto, says that it includes on its calendar “special” secular and creed-based days. Is Nakba Remembrance Day secular or creed-based?
With this decision, the Peel District School Board joins the likes of the UN, which is notorious for its anti-Israel bias. Last year, the UN officially commemorated Nakba Day for the first time.
As the Peel District School Board — which has a history of egregious acts of antisemitism — fans and foments hatred of Israel, its act is tolerated in Canada, a country that has become infamous for its stringent “anti-hate” laws which trample upon the freedom of speech. Apparently the “anti-hate” laws do not apply to acts of hatred against Jews.
“Peel District School Board goes political with Nakba Day on calendar,” by Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun, April 15, 2024:
Trustees at the Peel District School Board have been inundated with more than 1,000 emails asking them to do their jobs.
Specifically, parents and community members are requesting that the board remove Nakba Day from their official calendar of days to commemorate at the board.
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….
Peacelover says
This is sad.
somehistory says
Disgusting. Teaching little kids to believe that a people being given back what belonged to them is a bad thing; something to be mourned and reviled.
40 rounds says
I agree that instituting something this abhorrent is wrong but at the same time we need to be careful saying people who owned the land centuries ago are entitled to get it back. Otherwise we, as Americans are going to forfeit our land to the Indians –and I do believe Israel is entitled to what little land they have. If you can explain the difference I would appreciate it
somehistory says
I first must say, my grandmother was part Native American. Her mother belonged to one of the Nations.
The various tribes fought among themselves before any White people came from other places to settle the land. They didn’t believe any people could “own” the land; they were, for the most part, moving about as their lives necessitated.
Israel has a history, written centuries ago. mozlums fought and murdered and made claim to that Land, lying now and saying it was always theirs.
hitler and the mozlums made an attempt to carry out a real genocide, but failed. They weren’t the first who tried to eliminate the Jews, but the mozlums are still working on it.
The various governments, after the WWII ended, made the decision to give the Jews something that had belonged to them for centuries. I believe that no nation wanted to take them all in and give them space to live, so they said it would be right to have them settle in the Land that had belonged to them for so long.
Native Americans have been given a little of what *belonged* to them…not as much or in the places they want, but no one is fighting them to force them all to die. They don’t have to stay on the Reservations, but are free to move around if they choose.
mozlums want all of the Jews dead. Little kids should not be taught that mozlums are ‘in the right’ to be against the establishment of a Jewish State when what the mozlums want is to murder every Jew and take back what other mozlums murdered to take.
40 rounds says
What you say is true but I’m afraid if we push too hard on returning land to the original owners we’re gonna look a little hypocritical by the secularists. God ordained Israel that land but the non believers don’t buy that argument.
somehistory says
I’m not “pushing” anything. I’m just saying it’s wrong, disgusting, to have a day of ‘mourning’ taught to little kids for a time when a people were given a place to live.
The school children hear and take home what they hear from their teachers and school admin who make rules about what days are celebrated and which days are a subject of lies and condemnation based on hatred.
There is a lot of stuff in old history books, written by non-Native Americans about the “Indians,” which is incorrect. Ask someone who has never read anything else about those times since they went to school, and they only know *some* Truth about the American past. They probably only *know* one side of the story.
The kids today may not read or hear anything else of the history of Israel beyond what they are told in school. The schools don’t allow Bible reading, so they won’t get the past much beyond WWII; so they will now be told lies and won’t get the Truth from other sources
And that is disgustingly wrong.
John says
👍
John says
Why not to celebrate Nazis holidays?
gravenimage says
Good question, John. After all, Hiter’s birthday is coming up…
Nabil Bissada says
MONEY TALK
bagsgroove says
They are taking over Canada behind our backs. And who is protecting the Canadian citizens from this invasion.
FYI says
A new shuhada as a protest against political islam
Shuhada 2.0
“There is no god “allah”.And muhammed?well he is the most obvious false prophet in history isn’t he?”
islam:A false god,a false scripture and a false prophet
Get your kids to recite it…
Thomas (Tom ) F DYER says
I am a graduate of the Peel Board of Education. I am shocked, disappointed that Peel Board of Education has lowered themselves to this level. When people in Southern Ontario have to hire armed guards to protect their places of worship, something is terribly wrong. Freedom to practice one’s religion should be a right and not needing armed guards to protect the worshipping people. I am not Jewish but everyone should have these rights. Will the Peel Board of Education report this fact. The Province of Ontario told the various school boards in Ontario that their job is education NOT political. It appears that Peel Board of Education does not understand their mandate. The board members should all be fired.
I graduated from Port Credit Secondary School in 1966
gravenimage says
Thanks for that background, Tom. Heartbreaking.
Kenneth Johnson says
Canadian citizens are voting for these Imbecils. Being a Canacian used tomean some one who stood for democracy and all it stood for. What next?? KEN
GE says
Hey Peel County,
I have a couple of calendar dates you can add to the list:
April 24, (1915) Genocide Remembrance Day
October 1, (2023) Ethnic cleansing of Armenians from Artsakh
Anybody else want to add to the list?
Dov Berrol says
How about the First of November when the Muslim theft and ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem began?
Dov Berrol says
in 636 CE.
GE says
While you’re at it, add this, too—
https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/events/the-great-fire-of-smyrna-the-genocide-of-greeks-in-asia-minor-remembered-100th-anniversary-commemoration/
somehistory says
GE, any reader here could look at the number of terror attacks committed by mozlums and choose many, many dates to *remember* what the thugs and ghouls of islam have done.
I just read an account of a mozlum scum murdering his wife and unborn child in Scotland, where they were on a hike. She wanted to escape his thuggery and abuse and told him she was getting a divorce.
It’s never-ending rape and murder by mozlums wherever they are.
gravenimage says
+1
Loison Helmer says
Disgraceful! I taught for the Peel Board for over 25 years. They never behaved like this. In fact it was an excellent board to work for. Definitely the inmates have taken over the asylum. The Ministry of Education needs to sanction them.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Loison. This insanity is spreading to so much of the (formerly) civilized world.
gravenimage says
Canada: Peel District School Board becomes the first school board to add Nakba Day to calendar
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Just appalling. And note that no one cares how Jewish children are going to feel about this.
somehistory says
Re: universities and dei….Glenn Beck had Dr. Stanley Goldfarb on his show tonight speaking about dei and the public health crisis being created.by medical schools demanding that race, etc. is first and treating patients comes after…if at all.
Beck presents a lot of info on what’s happening now and the similarity with nazi Germany and doctors there. Dr. Goldfarb comes on near the end of the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQs6rQxW5JE
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Thanks for the video link, I ended up watching the whole thing.
Glenn Beck does a tremendous job pulling together the whole DEI initiative vis-à-vis medical schools, residency training, licensing boards, and practicing physicians.
Everything stated in the video is actually happening throughout the country, now mostly in heavy blue states. And it has also infiltrated National groups like the American Medical Association.
I went to medical school in the late 1970s and finished residency training in the early 1980s. Things like DEI were not even thought of then. So glad that I am a graduate of an era that believed in equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcome.
Suffice it to say, I am very concerned about the future of medicine / public health policy in United States.
somehistory says
Thank you, James, and you are very welcome.
I watched it through to the end and Beck presented so much information, it’s difficult to absorb just how bad things are.
I feel for the cancer patient and those like her who are denied treatment because of their opposition to what is happening.
That situation may come to be for many of us who many need medical care.
UF recently cancelled its dei programs and let those instructing in it go. UF has an excellent medical school as part of its program offerings.
Not everyone was happy with that decision. More schools should do the same.
And I believe it’s disgusting in the extreme that doctors opt for more money from Medicare as biden promised if they put dei first.
We can only wonder what evil they have planned next.
Blougeoisie says
They going to add Farhud day next?
jerry glenn says
Canada surges in the international Islamopandering derby.
E T says
Canada’s Attorney General and Justice Minister is a Muslim.
ATH says
Let us determine who at the school board promoted this and who voted for it. Then make sure those individuals get thrown off the board and blocked never to return. Make sure they’ll never get elected to any public office. They are very big on protests. Form large groups of young and noisy people and protest in front of their homes. Use THEIR tactics to fight them.
somehistory says
Following in her mammy’s dirty footsteps…..and lying about it.
“Columbia suspends Ilhan Omar’s daughter after pro-Palestine protest”
““i just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide,”
They had an “encampment” which they were told to dismantle…but refused.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/columbia-suspends-ilhan-omar-s-daughter-after-pro-palestine-protest/ar-AA1ngmOd?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=b54d26d9f1554aca84c34f26a889a23e&ei=45