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SALE FOR WINTER $1229 including 5 FREE hotel nights or $998* Air only. *subject to availabilit/change Call your travel agent or EL AL. 416-967-4222 60 Pages Wednesday, September 26, 2007 14 Tishrei, 5768 $1.00 This Week Arbour slammed by two groups National Education continues Accused of ‘failing to take a balanced approach’ in Mideast conflict to be hot topic in campaign. Page 3 ognizing legitimate humanitarian licly against the [UN] Human out publicly about Iran’s calls for By PAUL LUNGEN needs of the Palestinians, we regret Rights Council’s one-sided obses- genocide.” The opportunity was Rabbi Schild honoured for Staff Reporter Arbour’s repeated re- sion with slamming there, he continued, because photos 60 years of service Page 16 sort to a one-sided Israel. As a former published after the event showed Louise Arbour, the UN high com- narrative that denies judge, we urge her Arbour, wearing a hijab, sitting Bar mitzvah boy helps missioner for Human Rights, was Israelis their essential to adopt a balanced close to the Iranian president. Righteous Gentile. Page 41 slammed by two watchdog groups right to self-defence.” approach.” Ahmadinejad was in New York last week for failing to take a bal- Neuer also criti- Neuer was refer- this week to attend a UN confer- Heebonics anced approach to the Arab-Israeli cized Arbour, a former ring to Arbour’s par- ence. His visit prompted contro- conflict and for ignoring Iran’s long- Canadian Supreme ticipation in a hu- versy on a number of fronts. Co- standing call to genocide when she Court judge, for miss- man rights meeting lumbia University, for one, came in attended a human rights conference ing an opportunity to of the Non-Aligned for a fair share of criticism for invit- in Tehran earlier this month. denounce Iranian Pres- Movement in Tehran ing Ahmadinejad to address stu- Hillel Neuer, executive director ident Mahmoud Ah- in early September. dents and faculty at a time Iran was of UN Watch, criticized Arbour for madinejad for his “in- He said that unlike said to be supplying munitions that issuing a news release “slamming citement to genocide, secretaries general are killing American soldiers in Israel for declaring Gaza to be hos- even as she… visited Kofi Annan and Ban Iraq. tile… By contrast, she has never Iran and heard him UN High Commissioner Ki-moon, “I am not Meanwhile, a second UN mon- once issued a stand-alone statement speak. Nor has she for Human Rights aware of a single itoring group, Eye On the UN, also against Palestinian terrorism. Rec- ever spoken out pub- Louise Arbour time she has spoken Continued on page 46 Socalled turns heads with Was Arab boy’s death staged? fusion of klezmer and hip hop. Page 43 By BRETT KLINE $4,000 in court costs when he wrote that the Dura apparently was shot and killed. JTA shooting was a hoax, saying it constituted a Al-Dura’s shooting death became an instant Arts & Travel “masquerade that dishonours France and its icon for Palestinian suffering at the hands of Is- PARIS — Ever since Mohammed al-Dura was public television.” raeli brutality, but the Is- Portraits of Japanese vil- shot and killed at Gaza’s Netzarim Junction on He says the original raeli army, after initially lagers on display. Page 52 Sept. 30, 2000, some have claimed the boy’s trial was a travesty. apologizing for the death, death was staged for prime-time television. Some partisan Jewish concluded after an investi- One of them, the director of a small French groups, including the gation that the boy could Index media watchdog group called Media Ratings, Zionist Organization not possibly have been hit went to court to defend his version of the con- of America and CAM- by Israeli bullets. National ....................................3 troversial story. ERA – the Committee Karsenty called the Editorials & Letters ................8 Now, a French judge has ordered the release for Accuracy in Mid- court’s decision a victory. Perspectives ..............................9 of video footage that could reopen the contro- dle East Reporting in “This is only the first Opinions..................................10 versy. America, have lined step in a victory,” his The Kirshner File ..................11 Jewish Life ............................14 Philippe Karsenty is appealing a 2006 deci- up behind him, but lawyer, Marc Levy, said. sion that he slandered state-run France 2 televi- French Jewish groups France 2, whose cam- Just Between Us ....................26 The horrifying image of Mohammed Al- Family Moments ....................27 sion, whose cameraman caught the 12-year-old’s have withheld their eraman in Gaza, Talal Abu Dura and his father became a rallying icon What’s New ............................28 death on tape during the fateful exchange of gun- support. Rahma, shot the exclusive Obituaries and Notices ..........30 fire between Israeli forces and Palestinians. On Wednesday, an among Palestinians and their supporters. footage that was consid- On Campus ............................34 Karsenty was slapped with two $1,380 fines appeals court judge in Paris ordered France 2 ered a major scoop at the time, was given until Israel & the Jewish World ......45 – one to be paid to France 2 and one to the sta- to show the court about 25 minutes of raw video Nov. 14 to hand over the video to the court. Health & Lifestyles ................48 tion’s reporter – and ordered to pay another footage shot at the Netzarim Junction when al- Continued on page 46 Books & Authors ....................49 Arts & Travel..........................50 Classified ................................54 Sports & Leisure ....................58 Shabbat Chol Hamoed Greater Don’t miss an issue. Call 1-866-849-0864 today Candlelighting: 6:47 Toronto to have The Canadian Jewish News www.cjnews.com Area Canada Post Publication Agreement #40010684 Havdalah: 7:53 delivered to your door every week. Publication Mail Registration #09894 Mideast violence persists despite diplomacy — please see page 45 Page 2 T THE CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS September 26, 2007 The News in Brief ter of this country for nine of Reisman’s and her husband CANADA years, and I’m entitled to a Gerry Schwartz’s role in cre- Zundel Will Stay in Jail, Court Rules Mulroney Heckled better demonstration than ating the Heseg Foundation, BERLIN — Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel will not avoid this.” Security and police which aids Israeli soldiers prison after his appeal of his sentence was rejected. MONTREAL — Brian quickly removed the group without family in Israel. The German Federal High Court confirmed last week Vol. XXXVII, No. 39 (1,816)* Mulroney gamely deflected from the store. Marcel that it upheld the 68-year-old Zundel’s five-year prison sen- anti-Israel protesters who Sévigny of the Montreal Rape Arrests Made tence. On Sept. 12, the court rejected a 600-page proposed Gary Laforet crashed an event at Montreal’s Network of the Coalition revision in the sentence, German media reported. General Manager downtown Indigo bookstore Against Israeli Apartheid said TORONTO — A Thornhill, After a year-long trial Zundel, one of the world’s most Mordechai Ben-Dat to promote his new memoirs. later he wanted to ask Ont., man was arrested last active Holocaust deniers, was sentenced Feb. 15 by the Editor Vera Gillman The former prime minister Mulroney to denounce Israel’s week in connection with two Mannheim district court on charges of denying the Holo- Advertising & Assistant General Manager was onstage speaking to the treatment of the Palestinians, dorm room rapes earlier this caust on his Canadian- and U.S.-based Internet site. Carol Jamieson, Controller chain’s CEO, Heather “given the role [he] is said to month at York University. In justifying the sentence, the presiding judge, Ulrich Jeff Rosen, News & Internet Editor Reisman, when a small but have played in bringing down Daniel Katsnelson, 25, who Meinerzhagen, described Zundel as an “extreme anti- Joseph Serge noisy group unfurled a banner the apartheid system in South graduated from York in 2006, Semite” and “committed National Socialist” who sought to Arts, Travel and Supplements Editor reading “End Israeli Africa.” The same group is turned himself in last glamourize Hitler and make him seem harmless. Janice Arnold, Carolyn Blackman behind a boycott of Indigo Wednesday night and faces Sheldon Kirshner, Frances Kraft Apartheid.” Mulroney Zundel, a German native, was arrested in Canada in Feb- David Lazarus, Elias Levy cracked: “I was prime minis- and Chapters stores because five charges of break and ruary 2003 and deported to Germany two years later. He Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf, Paul Lungen Sheri Shefa, Leila Speisman enter, two of sexual assault, was one of the first right-wing extremists to use the Inter- Staff Reporters two of gang sexual assault and net to spread hate material worldwide. Rabbi B. Baskin, J. Brotman, G. Gall two of forcible confinement, J. M. Gerber, B. Gladstone Rabbi E. Goldstein, Y. Goldstein, A. Gropper police said. Another man, Iranian Roils NYC invoking the principle of free L. Hart, S. Horowitz, N. Joseph Justin Connort, 25, was arrest- speech. New York police also G. Koren, Rabbi D. Marmur J. Medjuck, P. Michaels ed late last week in the case. NEW YORK — Israel’s announced that they would R. Nadler, A. Rosensweig, A. Silver Large inventory of top quality Police said two men entered not accompany Ahmadinejad G. Steinberg, Rabbi C. Steinmetz friends were calling for the G. Troy, M. Walfish six different dorm rooms at arrest of Iranian President to Ground Zero as he had Columnists Granite York’s Vanier College on the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in asked, though some reports Diane Koven, Myron Love Monuments morning of Sept. 7. Two advance of his expected suggested that he planned to Canadian Correspondents women, both 19, were raped arrival this week in New York travel there anyway.