The Ontario Camps Association should be commended for having categorically rejected an arrogant and unreasonable demand by a coalition of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian organizations to strip the accreditation of 17 overnight Jewish children’s summer camps in Canada due to their support of and connection to Israel.

These anti-Israel groups, ranging from the Palestinian Canadian Congress to Just Peace Advocates and the Ontario Palestinian Rights Association, do not consider the camps “problematic” because they “encourage connection to Jewish identity.” Rather, they pose a problem because they “encourage support for a genocidal, settler-colonial state.”

“All 17 camps show support for Israel in one way or another,” the coalition states. “For example, ‘Israel’ is one of the main tenets of Camp Massad Manitoba. They say, ‘Camp Massad instills in all campers a respect and love for Eretz Israel and its diverse peoples, cultures, history, and geography.'”

In addition, the coalition calls for the sacking of Joy Levy, the executive director of the Ontario Camps Association. Lambasted as “a Zionist who publicly supports Israel, its military, and promotes anti-Palestinian........

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