The director of the magazine, Ici Quebec, which recently created a furor in Quebec’s Jewish community for publishing articles in its February and March issues considered anti-Semitic, has been elected president of the Montreal branch of the nationalist St. Jean Baptiste Society.
Jean Marie Cossette was chosen by acclamation president and declared the offending articles, one of which called Zionism “the cancer of humanity,” and another article insinuating that Israelis poisoned their own oranges, represent the policy of the publication. When asked by one member of the Society to dissociate himself from them, Cossette refused, saying he was proud to be running Ici Quebec. He added that it was not up to him to defend, justify or condemn the articles.
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