B’nai Brith Canada criticized a trading card that depicts Yasser Arafat as a positive role model. In its “Enduring Freedom” series, the Topps trading card company places Arafat in the section, “the World Supports America.” B’nai Brith Canada called the card “outrageous” and the “height of bad taste and an insult to victims of terror everywhere.”
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