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• Vancouver gay film festival bans national symbols after Israeli flag ad

  May 17, 2015 6:25am

  “Overt expressions of nationalism” were banned from the Vancouver Queer Film Festival after an advertisement featuring an Israeli flag prompted accusations of “pink washing.”

• At Cal Davis, swastikas at Jewish frat house follow BDS resolution

  February 1, 2015 7:08am

  The student senate’s nonbinding resolution was passed a couple of days before the two swastikas were spray-painted on Alpha Epsilon Pi’s off-campus house.

• Canadian-Israeli Jewish woman joins Kurdish forces against ISIS

  November 24, 2014 12:49pm

  Speaking from Iraq, Gillian Rosenberg told Israel Radio that she was training with the Kurdish YPG with plans to fight in Syria.

• Youth hockey coach fired for posting Nazi propaganda on Facebook

  November 12, 2014 7:07am

  The Canadian coach, a Holocaust denier, insists he never mentioned his Nazi sympathies to his players, who were in grades 6 to 9.

• Jewish student nominated to University of California regents board

  June 5, 2014 3:14pm

  A Jewish UCLA student active in Israel advocacy is expected to be named to the University of California Board of Regents following his nomination by a special committee.

• U.C. Santa Cruz student government passes divestment resolution

  June 5, 2014 5:56am

  The University of California, Santa Cruz student government passed a resolution calling for divestment from companies that do business with the Israeli military.

• Winnipeg shul drops speaker who allowed campus ‘apartheid’ week

  May 2, 2014 12:54pm

  Winnipeg’s leading synagogue withdrew an invitation for the University of Manitoba’s president to address its Yom Hashoah interfaith service following anti-Israel events on the university campus, the National Post reported.

• Toronto’s Ryerson U. student union votes to join BDS

  April 8, 2014 6:40am

  The student union at Ryerson University in Toronto voted to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement aimed at Israel.

• University of Windsor students vote to boycott Israel

  March 4, 2014 5:21am

  Students at the University of Windsor in Ontario passed a referendum supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement targeting Israel.

• UCLA student council rejects divestment resolution

  February 26, 2014 10:42am

  The UCLA student council rejected a resolution calling for divestment from five American companies that are accused of abusing Palestinian human rights.