{"id":8747,"date":"2010-05-22T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T16:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8747"},"modified":"2010-05-22T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T16:27:54","slug":"shocking-anti-semitic-slogans-banned-from-the-toronto-pride-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/shocking-anti-semitic-slogans-banned-from-the-toronto-pride-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking: anti-Semitic slogans banned from the Toronto Pride parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/story.html?id=3060925\">National Post<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/cjfn\/image\/62690982.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"140\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pride organizers have voted to effectively ban the group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from this year&#8217;s parade.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Kyle Rae confirmed the decision despite the efforts of Pride Toronto board members to defer the announcement until a news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pride has voted to ban the use of &#8216;Queers Against Israeli Apartheid,&#8217; &#8221; Mr. Rae told the Toronto Sun.<\/p>\n<p>The board reportedly decided to ban the phrase &#8220;Israeli apartheid,&#8221; but not any individuals or groups from the July 4 event &#8212; a sleight of hand that has outraged a spokesman for Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>Tim McCaskell accused Pride Toronto of betraying the gay community and buckling under pressure from politicians and sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think people will find it shocking,&#8221; Mr. McCaskell said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would have thought that the Toronto homosexual march would welcome a restriction that people find <em>\u201cshocking\u201d, <\/em> considering they have exhausted every other means of shocking the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the National Post: Pride organizers have voted to effectively ban the group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from this year&#8217;s parade. Councillor Kyle Rae confirmed the decision despite the efforts of Pride Toronto board members to defer the announcement until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/shocking-anti-semitic-slogans-banned-from-the-toronto-pride-parade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2167,2275],"class_list":["post-8747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-homosexuality","tag-toronto-gay-pride-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}