Upcoming Educational Series Descriptions

James Kitchen

Protecting Free Speech on Canadian Campuses
Lessons for Canada

Open to the general public

Date: Thursday, September 27, 2018

788 Marlee Ave, North York, ON M6B 3K1
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Adults: $20 | Students: $10 | Watch from Home: $20
Kosher food/refeshments will be served at the event

Synopsis: Campuses are ground zero for the battle to save free speech in Canadian society. Campus culture has become obsessed with political correctness, so-called “safe spaces”, and censorship of unwanted or unpopular opinions. Student unions are not required by law to uphold free speech and freedom of association on Canadian campuses, many of whom are overwhelmed by anti-Israel, anti-West, politically-correct ideologies. Universities have only a minimal legal duty to uphold free speech because, generally, the courts in Canada have found that universities are not bound by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.Actions to date by Hasbara Fellowships and Stand with Us have largely been local and reactive.

This speech deals with specific courtroom projects involving successes of the Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) on various campuses. Action includes requiring university presidents to sign a version of the University of Chicago Free speech pledge and allocate money for inviting and guaranteeing security of free speech visitors to campus. The fact that Wilfrid Laurier University is attempting to adopt a stronger statement in support of free expression is an encouraging sign that university administrations are already feeling the pressure to return to the original and proper purpose of higher education: the pursuit of truth and the advancement of knowledge.

Brooke Goldstein

Successful Advocacy and Litigation Strategies to Combat Anti-Semitism Around the World

Open to the general public

Date: Thursday, October 4, 2018

7:30pm - 9:00 pm @ Beth Tikvah Synagogue
3080 Bayview Ave, North York, ON M2N 5L3
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Adults: $20 | Students: $10 | Watch from Home: $20
Kosher food/refeshments will be served at the event

Synopsis: Brooke Goldstein is a NYC-based human rights attorney, award-winning filmmaker, author and television personality. She is the founder and executive director of The Lawfare Project, a legal think tank and litigation fund.

Goldstein will discuss the phenomenon of lawfare: the abuse of Western legal systems as a weapon of war. She will review lawfare as it has been used to silence and punish free speech about issues of national security, in particular theologically motivated terrorism. She will also discuss lawfare against the State of Israel in the international legal arena and what can be done to blunt its effect.

Goldstein will review the various legislative initiatives against the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)movement in the US, and provide a refutation of the argument that they violate free speech. Goldstein will discuss legal cases against proponents of commercial discrimination against Israelis in the US and Europe and brief the group on the feasibility of applying the same legal theories in Canada.

Goldstein will provide insight into the offensive counter-lawfare approach. She will discuss how she set up the world’s only pro-Israel litigation fund, and she will review the various legal initiatives the fund has strategically invested in around the world. To date, The Lawfare Project has pursued over 70 legal initiatives in 16 different jurisdictions globally, including Canada, Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, Qatar and elsewhere. She will provide guidance on how to organize the local legal community to pursue civil rights advocacy and litigation.

Andria Spindel

Proactive Student-Led Coalition For Free speech on Canadian campuses

Date: Thursday, October 25, 2018

7:30pm - 9:00pm @ Bnai Brith Toronto
15 Hove St, North York, ON M3H 4Y8
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Adults: $20 | Students: $10 | Watch from Home: $20

Synopsis:This national teleconference presentation involves simultaneous split-screen discussions in Toronto and on various campuses led by university free speech student club leaders. This program, hosted by Andria Spindel, will give you a multi-campus real time exposure to free speech issues at Ryerson, U of T, York, McGill, UBC and six other campuses.

You may purchase tickets to attend any of ten campus venues, and the local programs will include a mix of local speeches as well as participation in the national program.

Campuses are ground zero for the battle to save free speech in Canadian society. Campus culture has become obsessed with political correctness, so-called “safe spaces”, and censorship of unwanted or unpopular opinions. Student unions are not required by law to uphold free speech and freedom of association on Canadian campuses, many of whom are overwhelmed by anti-Israel, anti-West, politically-correct ideologies. Local progress will be discussed on issues like requiring university presidents to sign a version of the University of Chicago Free speech pledge and allocate money for inviting and guaranteeing security of free speech visitors to campus. The fact that Wilfrid Laurier University is attempting to adopt a stronger statement in support of free expression is an encouraging sign that university administrations are already feeling the pressure to return to the original and proper purpose of higher education: the pursuit of truth and the advancement of knowledge.

Dr. Charles McVety

Anti-Christian Prejudice in Canada: Lessons for Canada

Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2018

7:30pm - 9:00pm @ Toronto Zionist Centre
788 Marlee Ave, North York, ON M6B 3K1
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Adults: $20 | Students: $10 | Watch from Home: $20
Kosher food/refeshments will be served at the event

Synopsis:The Delegitimizing of Christians and Jews - The People of the Book

In today's Canada it is fully accepted to discriminate against Christians to the point where even the Prime Minister openly shuts out believers from jobs and grants. Christians are forced to hide their beliefs or lose their jobs. All under the guise of human rights. What can be done to address freedom of religion and support the rule of law in Canada?

After growing up with the horrors of the Holocaust you would think the world would learn the lesson never again but here we go again. I attended the UN's 60th Anniversary of the Liberation from Auschwitz every speaker said that persecution did not begin in the death factories but in the streets with the deligitimizing of Jews in society.

Today we see the Iranians shouting death to the Jews, death to Israel as they build nuclear facilities and promise to do in 6 minutes wheat Hitler did in 6 years. Isis, Boko Harum, Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists killed 90,000 Christians in 2017. The media continues to marginalize Christians and Jews while the left supports and defends Islamic terrorists in the red-green alliance.

In the words of former Chief Rabbi of Israel Mei Lau "The Unprecedented unique bond between Christians and Jews must be developed as together we stand, divided we fall. We must banned together before Canada turns into Europe where just walking down the street is dangerous for a Christian or a Jew.

Dr. Charles McVety has been the President of Canada Christian College and School of Graduate Theological Studies for 25 years. He is the head of the Evangelical Association, Canada's second largest evangelical denomination with 1,100 pastors. He is also Chairman of Christians United for Israel-Canada, an organization with 110,000 in Canada and 4 million members world-wide. Dr. McVety is an active television and radio commentator and has been described by the CBC as "one of the most powerful leaders of the Christian Right".

Past Educational Events

Gideon Falter

Using the Courts Against Anti-Semitism in the UK:
Lessons for Canada

Open to the general public

Date: June 12, 2018

7:30pm - 9:00 pm @ Bnai Brith, Toronto
15 Hove St., Toronto, ON M3H 4Y8
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Synopsis: Gideon Falter is a young businessman in London, who went to law school. Single-handedly he runs an organization Antisemitism.uk which he put together, enlisting a large group of lawyers to take action in Court wherever there is any anti-Semitism, in colleges, media, etc., etc. He has been hugely successful.

Gideon Falter, Chairman of Campaign Against Antisemitism, will use his experience in the U.K. to discuss how it has been possible, at a negligible cost, to force slow, unaccountable law enforcement authorities and regulators into action against their will using pro bono lawyers and grassroots infrastructure, and how prominent antisemites can be driven from public discourse through judicial review of decisions not to prosecute, private prosecutions, regulatory complaints and action for defamation.

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