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The Ontario Speaker’s decision to ban the keffiyeh in the provincial legislature is anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and blatantly regressive for a province that purports to have an Anti-Racism Plan. How can a province protect almost a million Arab-identified Canadians—that’s 1.9 per cent of the Canadian population—while practicing the very hatreds that threaten and already destroy Arab lives? I’m a Jew who wears a sudra, an ancestral Jewish scarf that is worn in the lands my ancestors live/d in.
That I can walk into the legislature while Arab friends and total strangers are prohibited is a twisted form of so-called “free” speech that silences and robs Arabs who wear the keffiyeh of their cultural, political and/or religious lives in public while tearing at the heart of multi-ethnic and multi-racial democracy. Jews know what it means to be humiliated in public and must not go idly by as the Speaker fights racism by further entrenching anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism.
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