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Hi Bari, I thought you might be interested in a developing story in Canada that has more than a whiff of systemic anti-semitism. The CBC(aka CBC/Radio Canada) the country's publicly funded government-owned broadcaster, started a whisper campaign insinuating the "dual loyalties" canard against Vivian Bercovici, who was Canada's ambassador to the State of Israel under the previous, Conservative, Harper administration, and who is Jewish.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vivian-bercovici-israel-embassy-ambassador-1.5964168. Not content to leave this be, the CBC followed up with another story, which gratuitously added a photo of Canada's Senator Linda Frum standing next to an Israeli flag. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vivian-bercovici-black-cube-1.6034555 She is also Jewish, and sister of David Frum.

Senator Frum is an extraordinary personality, and a key influence if the previous Conservative government led by Stephen Harper, and as such not one to take this without response, and today respond she did, with a statement to her Senate colleagues which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj8qZj1jGps&t=7s

Bari, please as a member of FAIR and from this important platform you have built here, consider exposing this to the American and Canadian public. This is a shameful episode of truly systemic prejudice and discrimination against people who have incontrovertibly been victimized in this way.

Thank you,

George Burger

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