Canadians may not know it, but they are being duped. The Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), Palestine House and the Canadian Arab Federation have joined together to distort truth and justice in an effort to promote a vehemently anti-Israel agenda of hate to young Canadians. All three have sponsored an inflammatory essay contest for students aged 17-27 that will reward (with cash) writing that perpetuates the myth of what contest organizers call “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine” — a notion that pretends Jews were not indigenous to Israel and the Middle East. According to its sponsors, the contest is being held “in response to the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel within Palestine.”

The contest announcement features points of interest for potential essay topics, including “May, 1948 through October, 1957 (the Israeli war against Egypt).” Conspicuously omitted is any reference to Israeli statehood, or for that matter the fact that the Arab armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon invaded the nascent Jewish state, triggering the first of many wars to follow. According to organizers, the Suez war of 1956 also falls into this category — but in their inverted version of events, it is Israel that was the initiator rather than Egypt, which triggered the war by blocking entry into the Suez Canal to British, French and Israeli shipping.

On it goes. The years 1957-1967 are listed as “the Israeli war against Egypt, Syria and Jordan,” when in reality Egypt, Syria and Jordan, bolstered by Iraq, Algeria and Kuwait, joined together in an attempt to destroy the Jewish state.
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