February 26, 2009 poster ban protest

[TeenTards]

om israel chai!! long live israel! fakestine enver existed.

[Ayapali]

SHAME on Carelton and University of Ottawa . What happened to the freedom of speech in educational facilities ? There is always two sides to the story and both sides have a right to be heard !

[Leibensborn]

i dont see how banning one poster is an infringement on free speech. There is a different between free speech and hate speach. THis poster is clearly the later.

[PrairieStubbleJumper]

There's an Israeli Apartheid Week on Canadian campuses now?!?!! I hope these students that formed this protest are visa students because this is a sad statement of Canada's future "leaders" if they're not.

SAIA and groups like it are the shame of our learning institutions.

[thenewrapstyle]

holy shit talk about useful idiots. stalin would be proud

[4teepee]

Would posters criticising the Sudanese government be torn down? Fat chance. There is no Sudan lobby before which to grovel.

[4teepee]

The chokehold that the Zionist lobby has on Canadian universities is even worse than in the U.S. -- perhaps because in the U.S. at least some deference is paid to the First Amendment. Canadian universities openly try to suppress criticism of Zionist expansionism.

[fatmoleman]

I guess Canada is going the way of the U.S. That is complete and total support for Israel and the genocide they commit in the Middle East.

Carleton U is pathedic and I'm ashamed that they are a Canadian University.

[globetrottingfilms]

Even though i don't agree with the fact that Ottawa U and Carlton have forced you guys to take down the posters, I have to say that this has probably generated more interest in your cause than the posters ever could have. There are literally hundreds of posters I walk by ever day at Ottawa U, and I only stopped to read yours when I saw someone ripping them down...so let them keep doing it; their resistance is ironically doing more good than their initial acceptance of the poster...

[wa7adsa7i]

thats great

keep it up SAIA

you guys are the best

[afterpies]

Safety patrol at night, and to pray at Campus Safety. And you want to complain about your "right" to call Israel a Nazi state and promote a toxic atmosphere for Jewish students? SHAME ON YOU

[afterpies]

promote hatred, intollerance or bullying. If there was an anti Black week on Campus it would get banned in a heartbeat. And you want to whine you don't have the right to call Israeli's Nazis? KNOWING that Israel constitutes a diverse religious, political and ethnic spectrum, generallizing them all as a helicopter is absurd and offensive and Carleton and Ottawa University rightly banned them. Campus safety at Carleton has advised Jewish students to travel in a safety patrol car, be accomponied by

[afterpies]

This is a complete joke right? Who would have possibly though posting signs comparing a Democratic State with full human rights for Israeli-Arabs, right to be gay, right to change religious views, right to speak out against the state, to that of Nazi Germany would be inappropriate. Given the alarming frequency of harassment against Jewish students on Campus, being called things like "worse than Adolf Eichman" is not free speech, its hate speech. In a democracy you have to limit speech which

[ahmadshabani]

a democratic state fulled with human rights? is that isreal?? they country that killed 1300 ppl in 20 days, 80% of whom are innocent, 450 killed the same exact way as the posters showed, a country that kiced out millions of arab ppl out palestine, so they could replace them and call palestine home, in fact i dnt think isreal should be called a nazi state, it should be called worse than that, and by all people, i hope that one day it will be held accountable for the crimes it did